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bodice substances Foundation garment fabrics are elastic fabrics made of cotton, regenerated fibers or synthetics, used to support the body or correct the figure.
Fur imitation (Funfur)Imitations of real furs produced on weaving or circular knitting machines with special attachments.
Terms: funfur, astrakhan, broadtail, lambskin, nutria, ocelot, seal, mink, Persian lamb, etc.
Reversibleknitted fabricAjour
Ajour is a collective term for all fabrics that are perforated with a fine hole pattern.
Sweatshirt fabricsThe fabric of a sweatshirt consists of a special knitted fabric. It is single-face knitted on circular knitting machines (plain knit). A special backing thread is carried on the reverse side, which has a softer twist than the base knitting yarn visible on the front. This is brushed up during the finishing process, which results in the typical fluffy inside of sweatshirt fabric. For this reason, this fabric is also known in the trade as "lining fabric".
Cotton knit fabricCotton is a natural fiber from the seed head of the cotton plant. Cotton can be excellently spun and permanently dyed and has the dry handle typical of plant fibers. It is more abrasion-resistant than wool, which is one reason it is also widely used for upholstery fabrics. Cotton is also very tear-resistant and heat-resistant — it can be hot-ironed and steamed. It never builds up static electricity and can be easily brushed up, for example for flannel.
TulleWoven fabric with continuous warp threads and just as many weft threads running diagonally to them, which wrap around the warp threads. The weft threads are wound on small metal bobbins (bobbin), which, as in braiding, perform a full wrap (whole twist) around each warp thread as they travel from left to right and back again. In addition to these binding weft threads, at least a second weft thread system must be present for patterning; complicated patterns require further pattern thread systems; these are controlled by Jacquard machines.
Bobbinet tulle consists of fine cotton twist yarn or synthetic fibre materials. Its quality is determined by the material and the number of cells per English square inch. These are counted from top left to bottom left and then diagonally to top right, with the bottom-left cell counted twice.
The word tulle is derived from the French town of Tulle. A distinction is made between fine and coarse tulle, and plain and patterned tulle. Of the numerous types of tulle, the following may be mentioned here:
- Architect's tulle, with particularly large grid-like cells
- Double-tie (double binding), tulle with a full pattern on both sides
- Double-action, with relief-like appearing pattern
- Pea tulle, plain tulle with honeycomb-(diamond-)shaped cells
- Florentine tulle, fine pea tulle, embroidered with patterns
- Filet tulle, made of weft threads running at right angles to the warp threads and a further pattern-thread (filet-thread) system
- Grid tulle, with square cells
- Relief tulle, with weft threads running back and forth over several warp threads
- Single-tie (simple binding), flat patterned tulle
- Swiss tulle, with various fine weft threads
- Lace tulle (tulle lace), imitation of bobbin-made Valenciennes lace
- Raschel tulle, warp-knitted tulle produced on the Raschel machine with thick lengthwise and fine crosswise threads
BoucléDress and coat fabrics with a rib-like surface, made wholly or partly of effect twist yarns with nubs, loops or curls.
Bouclé = (hair) curl
woven furWoven fur is a fur imitation (faux fur) related to velvet and plush, with a high pile.
gauzeA translucent fabric in plain (calico) weave, named after the city of Gaza, usually heavily sized, used as an embroidery base fabric (canvas), sieve fabric (miller's gauze) or stiffened gauze.
JerseyJersey originally referred to fabric from the circular knitting machine, but today generally denotes knit fabric with a jersey finish. According to RAL 367 A, jersey should above all be understood as a single-thread knit fabric with a horizontal thread run.
LycraPolyurethane filament from E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Inc., USA (see also elastane).
Lycra consists of a bundle of capillary filaments, whose individual filaments are bonded together into a "quasi-monofilament", giving it a yarn-like structure.
knitwearKnitted fabrics are textile sheet structures in which a loop formed by a thread is looped into another loop. The stitches created in this way can be formed using one or more threads.
This distinguishes knitted fabrics from woven fabrics, in which the fabric is produced by interlacing two thread systems, and also from nonwovens, in which a loose fibre web is consolidated, for example, by heat.
Compared to woven fabric, knitted fabric is characterised by greater stretch and elasticity and, as a result, less creasing. A distinction is made between weft-knitted (Strickware), warp-knitted (Wirkware), rib-knitted (Rippware) and plain weft-knitted (Kulierware) fabrics.
During production, several stitches are pre-formed simultaneously and worked into loops. In contrast, in the production of weft-knitted fabric, each needle is free and works independently of the others. |
