Learning About Fabrics

Learning About Fabrics

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The Who, What, and How

There is no limit where we can go with fiber technology

What is Fabric

  • Fiber Content + Construction

Fiber Content

  • Natural or Man-made
  • Staple or Filament
    • Staple: Short; Like Cotton
    • Filament: One long skinny strand intact; Like Silk

How to Create Blends

Typical Example: Wool Rayon and Wool Polyster

  • How to blend a staple and a filament?
    • Have your filament fiber core and then warp staple fibers around it.

Supply Chain

Greige Goods

  • Not recognized as suitable for final garments

  • Typical Example: Muslin

PFD or PFP

  • Prepared For Dyeing or Painting

Converters

  • Buying Greige Goods

Vertical Mills

  • Vertical in any kind of production capacity

Distributers

  • Help Converters and Mills to get their product out into the world

Jobbers

  • Buying leftover and slightly damaged fabric

Fabric Orientation Terminology

Yarn

  • It is made from a variety of natural and man-made fibers
  • It can also be referred to as Thread

Swatch

  • Sample

Piece

  • The Minimum for Production from the Converters is one piece
    • One Piece equals One Roll
    • You should ask how many yards in a piece
  • Usually you can't split a piece up
  • Usually, if a piece is 50 yards, you can't order 70. You have to order 100

Straight-Grain

  • Run parallel to the selvage

  • In woven fabrics, it called the Wrap

Cross-Grain

  • Run perpendicular to the fabric's selvage

  • In woven fabrics, it called the Weft

Bias

  • Diagonal Cut of the fabric
  • Always 45 Degrees
  • Do not cut at any other angle

Face & Back

  • The Front and the back of the fabric

Selvedge

  • The finished edge of the fabric

Botton & Top Weight

  • Pants & Dress Weight

Basic Categories of Material

Wovens

  • Have wrap yarns running along the length and weft yarns running along the cross

Knits

  • Loops looped on top of each other; Like Sweater

Nonwovens

  • Fibers are tangled together
  • Typical Example: Felt, Interfacing

Hides

  • Like Leathers where one side is smooth and finished
posted @ 2024-02-10 07:02  James-Allen  阅读(53)  评论(0)    收藏  举报