Assessing the quality of textiles using textile microscopy remains one of the important instruments for permanent process improvement in the fiber, textile, and apparel industries. The degree of international interlinking in the textile producing and finishing industries and their markets demands clearly defined and reproducible methods of detecting damage or defects at all process stages. This book, "Quality Assessment of Textiles: Damage Detection by Microscopy," has established itself as a key resource in research institute laboratories investigating defects, in universities and colleges, in the training of textile chemists and technologists, and in the industry and retail trade, making it necessary to release a new edition. This edition has been revised and supplemented by Mr. Mahall and his successor Ms. Irmhild Goebel and her staff.