本国际标准旨在促进工业和商业从传统的纱线编号系统向Tex系统的转变。它在Tex系统中提供了一系列推荐的四舍五入线性密度，以取代六种主要传统编号系统中的纱线编号。

This International Standard is intended to facilitate the changeover by industry and commerce from traditional yarn numbering systems to the Tex System. It provides a range of recommended rounded linear densities in the Tex System to replace the yarn numbers in the six main traditional numbering systems.