Brother International BES-100E BE-100 Workbook - English - Page 103

q Finishing Processes done after embroidery is complete. Includes trimming loose threads, cutting or tearing away excess backing, removing facing or topping, cleaning any stains, pressing or steaming to remove wrinkles or hoop marks, and packaging for sale or shipment. q Flagging Up and down motion of goods under the action of the needle, so named because of its resemblance to a waving flag. Often caused by improper hooping. Flagging may result in poor registration, unsatisfactory stitch formation, and birdnesting. q Frame Holding device for insertion of good under an embroidery head for the application of embroidery May employ a number of means for maintaining stability during the embroidery process, including clamps, vacuum devices, magnets or strings. q Geflect stitch See Fill stitch. q Hook Holds the bobbin case in the machine and plays a vital role in stitch formation. Making two complete rotations for each stitch, its point meets a loop of top thread at a precisely timed moment and distance gap to form a stitch. q Hoop Device made from wood, plastic or steel with which fabric is gripped tightly between an inner ring and an outer ring and attached to the machine's pantograph. Machine hoops are designed to push the fabric to the bottom of the inner ring and hold it against the machine bed for embroidering. q Hooping device Device that aids in hooping garments or items for embroidery. Especially helpful for hooping multicolored items and for uniformly hooping multiple items. q Lettering Embroidery using letters or words. Lettering, commonly called "keyboard lettering", may be created from circuit boards that allow variance of letter styles, sizes, height, density and other characteristics. q Lock stitch 1. Commonly referred to as a lock-down or tack-down stitch. A lock stitch is formed by three or four consecutive stitches It should be used at the end of all column fills and any shape where jump stitches will follow, such as color changes or the end of a design. May be stitched in a triangle or in a straight line. 2. Lock stitch is also the name of the type formed by the hook and needle of home sewing machines as well as computerized embroidery machines. q Logo Name, symbol or trademark of a company or organization. Short for logotype. q Looping Loops on the surface of embroidery generally caused by poor top tension or tension problems. Typically occurs where polyester top thread has been improperly tensioned. q Machine language The codes and formats used by different machine manufacturers within the embroidery industry. Common formats include Barudan, Brother, Happy, Marco, Meistergram, Melco, Pfaff, Stellar, Tajima, Toyota, Ultramatic and ZSK. Most digitizing systems can save designs in these languages so the computer disk can be read by the embroidery machine. q Marking Marking of goods to serve as an aid in positioning the frame and referencing the needle start points. q Modular Machine system where many separate stitching heads or configurations of heads are controlled by a central computer. 100