A Guide to Textile and Clothing
A Guide to Textile and Clothing
From earliest times, people have used fabrics of various types for covering, warmth, personal adornment, and even to display personal wealth. Today fabrics are still used for these purposes and everyone is an ultimate consumer. Depending upon whether we use different types of fabric such as we use woolen for winter, cotton for summer, etc.[…]
Consumption Calculation To calculate the fabric consumption per dozen of a shirt and polo shirt, measurement chart and garment design supplied by the buyer were considered. In this case a trouser sample supplied by the buyer is considered, diagram of the trouser is shown in the following figure: From the supplied sample following measurements were[…]
To determine the fabric consumption per dozen of a polo-shirt, we need design measurement chart, size ratio, and fabric specification. Design of the polo-shirt is shown in the following figure: Measurement chart is also shown in the following table. In the table, there are S, M, L, XL, XXL, sizes. Here L size is considered[…]
For making garments different types of fabrics are used. But the discussion has been made below on some standard commercial fabrics which are frequently used in making of garments: Jeans It is mainly warp faced twill fabric, made with carded cotton yarn, lighter than drill fabric and also the twill lines are very fine. The[…]
Denim and jeans are words that may confuse many people because sometimes the word denim is used for many different garments made from denim. The confusion goes deeper as in some parts of the world, the word denim is used interchangeably with jeans in such a manner that people refer to jeans as denim. But[…]
Definition of Blanket Blankets are made of various constructions and compositions, which provide different degrees of warmth, softness, and durability. They are usually woven but can be knitted or stitch-knitted or the Arachne fabric forming technique, needled, or by flocking fibres onto a polyurethane foam base. The yarns may be composed wholly of cotton, wool,[…]
