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Untreated and chemically modified cotton fabrics which had been laboratory-abraded by machine-washing and tumlle drying were studied with the scanning electron microscope. Generally, abrasion patterns were not different from those normally associated with any wet or dry abrasion. Greater differences were observed between washing machine-abraded and dryer-abraded samples than between treated and untreated samples abraded by the same method.
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