#garment manufacturing
- Female starcher — A skilled female worker in a textile or garment factory who executes the operations of starching, sizing, and finishing fabrics or clothing components. As an adjective, it represents the feminine plural form of the word 'apretor', defining industrial substances, machinery, or installations designed for stiffening, impregnating, or final processing of yarns and materials.
- Fabric sizing — A final technological finishing operation for textile materials, consisting of applying a thin layer of sizing agent or starch; it also defines the chemical colloidal mixture used for this purpose or the resulting protective film on the fabric surface. This structural process serves to provide the cloth with controlled stiffness, a pleasant hand, luster, waterproofness, or wrinkle resistance according to commercial standards.