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Count Conversion

This document provides conversion formulas between different textile measurement systems including denier, tex, metric count, english cotton count, and worsted count. It shows that denier measures the weight in grams of 9,000 meters of yarn while tex measures the weight in grams of 1,000 meters. It also explains that cotton count, wool count, and worsted count measure the length in yards per pound of yarn while metric count measures the length in kilometers per kilogram.

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Count Conversion

This document provides conversion formulas between different textile measurement systems including denier, tex, metric count, english cotton count, and worsted count. It shows that denier measures the weight in grams of 9,000 meters of yarn while tex measures the weight in grams of 1,000 meters. It also explains that cotton count, wool count, and worsted count measure the length in yards per pound of yarn while metric count measures the length in kilometers per kilogram.

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Tex Den. Metric No.

English
(nm) Cotton No.
(ne)
Tex 9 × Tex 1000/Tex 590.5/Tex
Den Den/9 9000/Den 5314/Den
Metric 1000/Nm 9000/Nm 0.59 × Nm
No. (Nm)
English 590.5/Ne 5314/Ne Ne × 1.69
Cotton
No. (NeS)

System Formula
Direct: weight per unit of length of yarn
Denier Weight in Grams/9000 m length
Tex Weight in Grams/1000 m length
Indirect: length per unit of weight of yarn
Cotton Count (Ne) No. unit length (840 yards) / 1
pound
Wool Count (Nes) No. unit length (256 yards) / 1
pound
Worsted Count No. unit length (1600 yards) / 1
pound
Metric count (Nm) No. unit length (1 km) / 1 kg
Or Mt/gm

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