Glossary entry

Italian term or phrase:

prima apertura

English translation:

fibre opening

Added to glossary by Kimberly De Haan
Dec 14, 2012 15:45
11 yrs ago
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Italian term

prima apertura

Italian to English Tech/Engineering Textiles / Clothing / Fashion wool production
This is from a text explaining how cashmere is made.

B. La Filatura
A seconda della qualità della fibra il filato si ottiene attraverso due metodi distinti: cardatura e pettinatura. Indipendentemente dal metodo di tessitura che si utilizzerà, la fibra di cashmere necessita di un laborioso processo di preparazione con diversi trattamenti – **prima apertura**, pulitura, mescolatura -, che avvengono con l'utilizzo di appositi macchinari nei reparti mischie.

On one website (I've lost it now), I found "sfilacciatura" as a synonym, but elsewhere the definitions I found of that word talk about reused wool, whereas this text is talking about new wool.

Can anybody help me?

Discussion

philgoddard Dec 14, 2012:
I think the answer may be "carding" or "opening", but I've spent too long on this question when I should be working. The Wikipedia article on cashmere talks about opening the fibres to separate them, and carding may be the same thing - I'm not sure.

Proposed translations

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fibre opening action/pre-dehairing

double checked the cashmere procedures and it is likely they meant this technique.

http://www.cormatex.it/it/linea.asp?lin_id=WS02

Pre-egiarratura
La pre-egiarratrice ha lo scopo di preparare la fibra di cashmere alla egiarratura finale, combinando una delicata azione di apertura della fibra ad una preliminare eliminazione della fibre più grosse. In questo modo sia la qualità che la produttività del processo di egiarratura migliorano notevolmente.

Pre-dehairing
The pre-dehairing machine is designed to prepare the cashmere fibres for the final dehairing process, by combining a delicate fibre opening action and a preliminary elimination of the coarse fibres. In this way, both the quality and productivity of the dehairing process improve considerably.

HIH

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Note added at 15 ore (2012-12-15 07:28:53 GMT)
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Sorry Kimberly, I didn't want to grade my answer 5 but 4, my mistake even though it is likely the right option.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks to all for your help"
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Dehairing

The process of cleaning out coarse hairs before the carding process.
Peer comment(s):

neutral tradu-grace : a doubt came to my mind and so I double check my search parameters.
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neutral philgoddard : You may be right, but you haven't proved a connection between the Italian and English words, and tradugrace's reference has "egiarratura" for "dehairing".
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