Velours
(French, from Latin villosus = shaggy, soft, velvety)
General term for velvets and velvet-like fabrics with a short, upright pile made of cut pile loops (velours frisé = crimped) or uncut pile (velours épinglé = pin-looped).
Also a general term for fabrics with a raised, sheared and brushed surface (velour blanket).
There are countless name combinations with velours, of which only a few can be mentioned here:
By raw material
- Velours de coton
- Velours de laine
- Velours de lin
- Velours de soie
By manufacturing method
- Velours broché
- Velours façonné
- Velours figuré
- Velours gaufré
- Velours moiré
- Velours rayé
- Velours rips
- Velours uni
Fabrics with a velour surface include, for example, monkey fur fabric, duvetine, velotine.
Velours is also used to describe a dense, raised and sheared knit fabric, e.g. Raschel velour. Furthermore, a distinction is made between individual pile surfaces according to pile height. Depending on the pile height, the following classification applies:
- Velvet up to 2mm
- Velours from 2 to 4 mm
- Plush over 4 mm