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Gabardine - A tightly woven, durable, warp-faced fabric with a 45 degree or 63 degree right-hand twill line.

Gauze - A thin, sheer, woven fabric where each filling yarn is covered by two warp yarns twisted around each other. Gauze is similar to cheesecloth. It may be made of silk, cotton, wool, or manufactured fibers. Cotton gauze is used primarily for surgical dressings.

Genuine Milliken Table Linens - Common marketing phrase used to indicate the market-leading brand of commercial grade restaurant table linen fabric designed and manufactured by Milliken & Company.

Gingham - A woven fabric characterized by a block or check pattern created by weaving in dyed yarns at fixed intervals in both the warp and the filling. (Also see Check Pattern Table Linen by Milliken.)

Governmental Market (for wholesale linens) - The wholesale linens market consisting of prospective sales to governmental agencies and organizations on the local, state, and federal levels. Examples include, but are not limited to, the military, police & fire departments, parks departments, and government-run hospitals and nursing homes. The governmental market differs from the institutional market in that government is public where as institutional is private.

Gray Scale For Staining - A nine-step scale of gray chips distributed by AATCC and used as a comparison standard in colorfastness tests for rating the degree to which color transfer has occurred from other materials onto undyed textiles.

Green Fabrics - Fabrics that are considered environmentally (or echo) friendly. These fabrics are made from renewable resources such as bamboo or hemp with little or minimal carbon emissions resulting from the manufacturing process.

Greige Fabric - An unfinished fabric just off the loom or knitting machine.

Ground Color - A term describing the plain background color against which a design is created.

 

 






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