| Source | Target | | à carreaux | checked |
| à court poil | low-piled |
| à deux fontures (tricoteuse) | double bed (flat knitting machine) |
| à fibres courtes | short-stapled |
| à fibres longues | long stapled |
| à la mode | fashionable |
| à long poil, de haute laine | high-piled |
| à pli permanent | fold fast, permanent press, durable press |
| à poil long | long-haired |
| à une fonture (tricoteuse) | single bed (flat knitting machine) |
| abattre | cast off |
| absorber la sueur | sweat absorbent |
| absorption de lumière | light absorption |
| absorption de lumière | light absorption, absorption of light |
| absorption d'humidité | absorption of moisture |
| accélérateur | accelerant |
| accident de travail | industrial accident, mill accident |
| acétate de polyvinyle | polyvinyl acetate |
| acétylène | acetylene |
| achat | purchase |
| actionnement | drive, power |
| actionner | operate, attend, service |
| additif | addition |
| adoucissant | softening agent, fabric softener |
| adoucissant | fabric softener, softening agent |
| adoucisseur, assouplisseur | softener, softening agent |
| affiner | attenuate |
| affinité | affinity |
| affinité de colorant | dye affinity, dye substantivity, dyeability |
| affinité de fibre | fibre affinity, fibre substantivity |
| affinité tinctoriale, la substantivité | dyeability, dye affinity, dye substantivity |
| agent antimites | anti-moth product, moth-repellent product |
| agent anti-mousse | foam inhibitor, anti-foaming agent, defoaming agent |
| agent anti-mousse, le produit anti-mousse | anti-foaming agent, anti foaming agent, anti-foam preparation |
| agent d'apprêt, le produit d'apprêt | finishing agent, chemical finishing agent |
| agent de blanchiment | bleaching agent |
| agent de réticulation | cross-linking agent |
| agrotextiles | agrotextiles |
| aiguille | needle |
| aiguille à bec | bearded needle, spring needle |
| aiguille à clapet, aiguille à palette | latch needle |
| aiguille à coulisse, aiguille compound | compound needle |
| aiguille à palette, aiguille à clapet | tongue needle, latch needle |
| aiguille à tricoter | knitting needle |
| aiguille compound | compound needle |
| aiguille de tâteur | feeler needle |
| aiguilletage | needling |
| ailette (de banc à broches,f) | flyer |
| ajouré | open work, ajour, eyelet |
| alimentation du fil | yarn feeding |
| allongement à la rupture | elongation at break |
| allongement de rupture | breaking elongation, elongation at break |
| allongement, extension | stretch, elongation, dilation |
| allongement, l'extension | elongation |
| alourdir | load |
| amidon | starch |
| amidonner, empeser | starch |
| ancrage du poil | pile binding, anchorage of the piles |
| ancrage du poil | pile binding |
| angle de froissement | creasing angle |
