
Snaps, toggles and specialty closures
Press snaps, frog buttons, horn-look toggles and covered buttons — when the closure is not a four-hole disc.

Hook-and-loop structure: hook, loop and backing
Woven, moulded and mushroom hooks; nylon, polyester and blends; sew-on versus adhesive backings — how a touch fastener is built.

Functional webbing: FR, UV, medical-grade and high-tenacity
Flame, weather, biocompatibility and load — how to specify a performance tape without borrowing a seat-belt number onto a garment binding.

Ceramic, glass and stone buttons
Zirconia and porcelain sew-ons, glass pearl, marble-look stone — hard faces that are not resin and not shell.

Jacquard webbing and brand tape
Logos woven into the tape, not printed on it — warp patterning, colour counts, widths and when a woven label is the better article.

Eyelets, grommets and rivets
How apparel eyelets differ from sail grommets, how Chinese size numbers map to inner diameter, and when you need a washer.
