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Nylon 6 and nylon 66 look identical on the loom but diverge at the dyehouse and the stenter. How chain structure drives melting point, acid dye uptake, hand and strength, where the price premium pays back, and how to write a specification that names the polymer.

Put-up is a specification line, not a warehouse detail. How roll length and weight pull against each other, why tube wall and winding face decide whether a roll arrives round and unmarked, how thermoplastic creases form in storage and transit, and the seven lines of a put-up clause that survives a claim.

Thread density only predicts fabric weight when it travels with yarn size. How ends, picks and denier convert into grams per square metre, what reed count really means on the order sheet, why twill holds a higher sett than plain weave, and how cover factor controls hand, airflow and down containment.

Why shade drift is a distribution rather than a fault, how D65, TL84, CWF and Illuminant A change the answer, how metamerism breaks single-source matches, what Delta E can and cannot see, and how to write a shade tolerance clause with a retained master, named sources and separate within-roll and lot limits.

Why denier describes half a yarn, how filament count changes hand and cover at the same denier, what the FDY, DTY and ATY routes actually deliver in the loom and on the body, why warp and weft are specified separately, and how to write a yarn line that survives bulk without substitution.

Why thermoplastic wovens remember heat, how the heat-setting window sets the pressing ceiling, the four ways pressing fails, what the dot symbols and care-label systems commit you to, how after-wash appearance and shrinkage are actually graded, and how to write ironing and care into a specification that holds from sample to bulk.

What a coating is and is not, the four coating families used on synthetic wovens, what add-on really controls, why coatings delaminate or crack, how the waterproof-breathable trade-off works, and how to write polymer, add-on, performance and bond strength into a specification that holds from sample to bulk.

Why the quoted width is not the width you can cut, how bow and skew differ and where they come from on the stenter, what distortion costs in marker efficiency, and how to write usable width and grain tolerance into a specification that holds from development to bulk.

How the four main functional finishes on woven polyester and nylon actually work, what each one costs in hand feel, shade, weight, breathability and fastness, where the requirements collide, and how to write a finish requirement that repeats from development to bulk.

How to classify visible defects on woven polyester and nylon: yarn-direction faults, holes, stains and shade faults, plus the 4-point grading system, penalty rules, the points-per-100-square-yards calculation, and how to write an acceptance clause that survives a dispute.