#material properties
- 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.
- Argilliform — Having the shape, appearance, or physical properties of clay; mineral masses or fine sedimentary deposits featuring a plastic, compact, and colloidal structure resembling clay. In a geological sense, it describes materials resulting from the profound weathering of silicates, capable of becoming malleable in the presence of water and maintaining their shape upon drying according to standard textural parameters.