This industry comprises (1) establishments primarily engaged in finishing of textiles, fabrics, and apparel, and (2) establishments of converters who buy fabric goods in the grey, have them finished on contract, and sell at wholesale. Finishing operations include: bleaching, dyeing, printing (e.g., roller, screen, flock, plisse), stonewashing, and other mechanical finishing, such as preshrinking, shrinking, sponging, calendering, mercerizing, and napping; as well as cleaning, scouring, and the preparation of natural fibers and raw stock.

• Bleaching textile products, apparel, and fabrics
• Burling and mending fabrics
• Calendering textile products, apparel, and fabrics
• Carbonizing textile fibers
• Carding textile fibers
• Chemical finishing (e.g., fire, mildew, water resistance) fabrics
• Combing and converting top
• Combing textile fibers
• Converters, piece goods
• Converting textiles
• Crease resistant finishing of fabrics
• Dyeing gloves, woven or knit, for the trade
• Dyeing textile products and fabrics
• Embossing textile products and fabrics
• Fabric finishing
• Gassing yarn (i.e., singeing)
• Mercerizing textile products and fabrics
• Napping textile products and fabrics
• Preshrinking textile products and fabrics
• Printing fabric grey goods
• Printing textile products (except apparel)
• Scouring and combing textile fibers
• Screen printing fabric grey goods and textile products (except apparel)
• Shrinking textile products and fabrics
• Sizing of fabric
• Sponging textile products and fabrics
• Stone washing textile products, apparel, and fabrics
• Sueding textile products and fabrics
• Teaseling fabrics
• Textile products finishing
• Thread finishing
• Wool tops and noils manufacturing