just as you can give straight hair shape with a blow drier, so it is with yarn. Taslan is yarn that's been "air-jet textured": Air is blown through the yarn so that its individual filaments fan out. Hence Taslanized fabric like Supplex has a soft, textured feel.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            a DuPont trademark for a method of bulking and texturizing yarn using compressed air.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            DuPont's air jet-textured nylon yarn. Very lightweight form of Corura used to create fabrics recognized for cottony feel, light weight, durability, and abrasion resistance.