Standards New Zealand Online Library provides access to the following standards. They outline all you need to know about how to test, care for and label (even where the label needs to be positioned on the garment) textile products and include generic names of natural and man-made fibres.
AS/NZS 2001.1.2:1998
Methods of test for textiles - General - Universal yarn count system (Tex System)
AS/NZS 2001.4.4:1998
Methods of test for textiles - Colourfastness tests - Determination of colourfastness to water spotting
AS/NZS 1957:1998
Textiles - Care labelling
AS/NZS 2392:1999
Textiles - Labelling of clothing, household textiles and furnishings
AS/NZS 2621:1998
Textiles - Guide to the selection of correct care labelling instructions from AS/NZS 1957
AS/NZS 2450:1994
Textiles - Natural and man-made fibres - Generic names
AS/NZS 2622:1996
Textile products - Fibre content labelling
