Fabrics for apparel and furnishing

Light Blue Brocade Fabric

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Woven fabric Price list

Made of silk

Flower Printed Fabric

Nylon Lycra Spandex

Does viscose crease

Fabrics Almost all the fabrics we use are what we call natural fabrics that feel good on the body and enables a high degree of breathability. This is important as many of our customers have a natural warm disposition. The downside of using natural fabrics is their ability to crease, and the need for ironing. Creasing is a characteristic of natural fabrics and we have evaluated…

Woven Knit

For the last few seasons, I have been noticing ready-to-wear garments made using both woven fabrics and knits. The idea is appealing, but I have often wondered if marrying these two types of fabrics is difficult to sew. So I decided to find out. I chose the Eureka Top as my pattern because it is simple to make with few seams, little fitting to deal with, and fresh and summer…

Spider silk weaving

A rare textile made from the silk of more than a million wild spiders goes on display today at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. To produce this unique golden cloth, 70 people spent four years collecting golden orb spiders from telephone poles in Madagascar, while another dozen workers carefully extracted about 80 feet of silk filament from each of the…

Nylon cotton blend

Cotton/nylon blends have been commonly used as the material for protective clothing, but those blend fabrics are not flame retardant finished because of the unavailability of effective flame retardant finishing systems. Previously, we investigated the use of a hydroxyl-functional flame retardant organophosphorus oligomer (FR) in combination with the mixture of dimethyloldihydroxyethyleneurea…

Definition Knitted fabric

Knitting is one of several ways to turn thread or yarn into cloth (cf weaving fabric consists entirely of parallel courses of yarn. The courses are joined to each other by interlocking loops in which a short loop of one course of yarn is wrapped over the bight of another course. In practice, knitting is usually begun (or cast on ) by forming a base series of twisted loops…

Viscose Yarns

Superfine Australian merino wool, tencel top, mulberry silk, sheep locks, viscose yarn. Length: 8 3/4” (22 cm) Circumference: At the upper edge approx. 9 1/2” (24 cm) At the bottom edge 9 1/2 (24 cm) In the middle approx. 7 3/4” (20 cm) They are a little stretchable