A Guide to Textile and Clothing
A Guide to Textile and Clothing
Selection of Dyes With the enormous host of dyes available to today’s textile industry, the choices are significant. Aside from each coloring agent’s ability to impregnate fibres and fabrics with different color intensities, each has specific functional characteristics that may make it more suitable for one project than for another. One of the most important[…]
Hair Lines or Pin Stripe The effect of arranging the warp and weft a 2:2 order of coloring in the 2/2*2 matt-weave cloth is shown in the following figure; similarly the shades indicate the dark yarns. The weave and color arrangement produce the pattern, which consists of thick or coarse horizontal lines alternately dark and[…]
Definition of Resin Synthetic resins are complex organic products of high molecular weight. Resin results when a number of simple molecular of low molecular weight become jointed together and to end to form much longer molecules which may be linear or linear molecules cross-linked. The main outlet of resins has been the plastic industry and[…]
Definition of Fabric Selvage or Selvedges In yard goods, the outer edges are constructed so they will not ravel. These finished edges are called the selvages (self-edges) and are often made with heavier and more closely spaced warp yarns than are used in the rest of the fabric by using more or stronger warp yarns[…]
Fabrics are either yarn-dyed or piece-dyed. Yarn-dyeing means that the yarns are colored before weaving. They can be stored as raw yarn and dyed when required according to the dictates of fashion. Piece-dyeing means that cloth is woven as what is known as ‘grey’ goods and is then dyed according to fashion need. Dyeing is[…]
Color always provides interest and impact. Printed textiles can attract consumers and convey new fashion trends easily and comparatively quickly. They help to balance collections or ranges and add variety. Some of the most common printing techniques are discussed here: Block Printing Block printing is a traditional technique that uses carved wooden or linoleum blocks[…]
