Standard Performance Specification for Woven, Lace, and Knit Household Curtain and Drapery Fabrics

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1.1 This performance specification covers the requirements for all knit, lace, foam back, stitch-bonded, conventional weights, and sheer woven fabrics to be used in the manufacture of curtains and draperies.  
1.2 This performance specification is not applicable to fabrics made of glass.  
1.3 For those properties where fabric direction is pertinent, these requirements apply to the length and width directions for woven fabric and to both the wale and course directions for knit fabric.
1.4  This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.

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Designation: D 3691 – 02
Standard Performance Specification for
Woven, Lace, and Knit Household Curtain and Drapery
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Fabrics
This standard is issued under the fixed designation D 3691; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (e) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
This standard has been approved for use by agencies of the Department of Defense.
1. Scope D 2905 Practice for Statements on Number of Specimens
for Textiles
1.1 This performance specification covers the requirements
D 5034 Test Method for Breaking Strength and Elongation
for all knit, lace, foam back, stitch-bonded, conventional
of Textile Fabrics (Grab Test)
weights,andsheerwovenfabricstobeusedinthemanufacture
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2.2 AATCC Test Methods
of curtains and draperies.
8 Colorfastness to Crocking: AATCC Crockmeter Method
1.2 This performance specification is applicable to all fab-
16 Colorfastness to Light
rics except those made of glass.
23 Colorfastness to Burnt Gas Fumes
1.3 For those properties where fabric direction is pertinent,
61 Colorfastness to Laundering Home and Commercial:
these requirements apply to the length and width directions for
Accelerated
woven fabric and to both the wale and course directions for
116 Colorfastness to Crocking: Rotary Vertical Crockmeter
knit fabric.
Method
1.4 This standard does not purport to address all of the
124 Appearance of Fabrics After Repeated Home Launder-
safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the
ing
responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appro-
129 Colorfastness to Ozone in theAtmosphere Under High
priate safety and health practices and determine the applica-
Humidities
bility of regulatory limitations prior to use.
132 Colorfastness to Dry Cleaning
2. Referenced Documents 135 Dimensional Changes in Automatic Home Laundering
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of Durable Press Woven or Knit Fabric
2.1 ASTM Standards:
172 Colorfastness to Non-Chlorine Bleach in Home Laun-
D 123 Terminology Relating to Textiles
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dering
D 231 Methods of Testing Tolerances for Knit Goods
187 Dimensional Changes of Fabrics:Accelerated
D 1336 Test Method for Distortion of Yarn in Woven
188 ColorfastnesstoSodiumHyperchloriteBleachinHome
Fabrics
Laundering
D 1424 Test Method for Tearing Strength of Woven Fabrics
Evaluation Procedure 1 Gray Scale for Color Change
by Falling-Pendulum (Elemendorf ) Apparatus
Evaluation Procedure 2 Gray Scale for Staining
D 2261 Test Method for Tearing Strength of Fabrics by the
Evaluation Procedure 9 Visual Assessment of Color Differ-
Tongue (Single Rip) Procedure (Constant-Rate-of-
ence of Textiles
Extension Tensile Testing Machine)
D 2724 Test Methods for Bonded, Fused, and Laminated
NOTE 1—Reference to test methods in this specification give only the
Apparel Fabrics
permanent part of the designation of ASTM, AATCC, or other test
methods. The current editions of each test method cited shall prevail.
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This specification is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee D13 on
3. Terminology
Textiles and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee D13.63 on Home
3.1 Definitions:
Furnishings.
Current edition approved April 10, 2002. Published July 2002. Originally
published as D 3691 – 78. Last previous edition D 3691 – 95a(2001).
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contact ASTM Customer Service at service@astm.org. For Annual Book of ASTM
Standards volume information, refer to the standard’s Document Summary page on
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the ASTM website. Available from American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists, P.O.
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Discontinued—See 1979 Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Part 32. Box 12215, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.
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D3691–02
3.2 For definitions of other textile terms used in this 4.3 The uses and significance of particular properties and
specification, refer to Terminology D 123 and to the Technical test methods are discussed in the appropriate sections of the
Manual of the American Association of Textile Chemists and
specified test methods.
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Colorists.
5. Test Methods (Note 1)
4. Significance and Use
5.1 Breaking Force (Woven Fabrics Only)—Determine the
4.1 Fabrics intended for this end-use should meet all of the
requirements listed inTable 1. dry breaking force (load) as directed in the grab test procedure
4.2 It should be recognized that fabric can be produced of Test Method D 5034, using a constant- rate- of -extension
utilizing an almost infinite number of construction variables
(CRE) tensile testing machine.
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