Knowledges about clothing and its accessories
Here I will introduce some clothing fabrics for your reference, which are widely used in the China clothing fields.
Tie-dyeing, also called binding valerian or stranded valerian in ancient times, is a traditional and unique dyeing process that involves tying and binding sections of cloth to create a pattern or design. In this process, the tied areas resist the dye, resulting in a unique, colorful pattern on the fabric.
Continue reading “What is Tie-Dyeing?”With the development of the social economy and the improvement of people’s living standards, outdoor sports are becoming more and more popular, which is accompanied by the rise of the functional protective textile market. So, what are outdoor sports? Outdoor sports are a group of sports with adventure or experience in the natural environment as a venue. Sportswear industry apparel products can be divided into outdoor jackets, fleece clothing, ski clothing, and down clothing. Here we discuss the outdoor jacket fabric.
Outdoor jackets need to be waterproof, waterproof, and breathable. There are many kinds of fabrics that meet these characteristics, and in general, they can be divided into three kinds:
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In the field of home textiles, synthetic fibers make up for the shortage of natural fibers and are used in large quantities. However, their poor moisture absorption, easy to accumulate static electricity, and textiles made from synthetic fibers are easy to absorb dust and get staining. Besides this, they have poor breathability, and in serious cases can cause electric shock, and even cause a fire. Therefore, people hope that textiles can have antistatic properties, that is, the fabric itself can eliminate static electricity.
Continue reading “Functional home textile fabric”Webbing can be used both as one apparel accessory product and as one of the textiles. There are two main methods of coloring webbing, one is the most widely used dyeing (conventional dyeing), which mainly involves placing the webbing in a chemical dye solution. Another method is to use paint, which is made into tiny insoluble colored particles to adhere to the fabric (fiber raw stock dye is not included).
Gram weight is generally used to indicate the thickness of the fabric. The bigger the gram, the thicker the clothes. T-shirt weight is generally between 160 grams to 220 grams, too thin will be very transparent, and too thick will be muggy, it is better to choose between 180 and 280 grams. (t-shirts with short sleeves are usually 180-220 grams in thickness, while long-sleeved T-shirts generally choose 260 grams of fabric.
The number of yards of the length of cotton yarn with a definite weight of one pound. The higher the count, the softer. The T-shirts are usually 21 and 32.
Coarse yarn: Cotton yarn of 18 or less, mainly used for weaving thick fabrics or cotton fabric with pile and loop.
Medium count yarn: pure cotton yarn of 19 to 29 counts. Mainly used for general requirements of knitted clothing.
Fine count yarn: Cotton yarn of 30 to 60 counts. Mainly used for high-grade knitwear.
Factors to consider when choosing infant and toddler clothing
Formaldehyde is a volatile compound, usually used as a synthetic reagent for textile anti-wrinkle and anti-shrinkage finishing agents. It can also be used as color fixing agent, water repellent, softener, adhesive, etc. It is also an irritant compound that can cause allergic skin reactions and human respiratory diseases. A small amount of formaldehyde can have an irritating effect on human eyes, skin and mucous membranes, excessive formaldehyde will cause serious inflammation of mucous membrane and respiratory tract, and can also lead to dermatitis. Formaldehyde content ≤ 20mg/kg is required in infant clothing.
Continue reading “All about Buying Baby clothes”Polar fleece is a kind of knitted fabric. This fabric is a small treasure knitting structure, knitted in a large circular machine, woven into the blank fabric first by high temperature and high-pressure dyeing, and then by brushing, combing, shearing, shaking grain, and other complex finishing processes. The front of the fabric is brushed with fluffy and dense polar fleece, its other side is brushed with a sparse and short pile of fluff. It is the first choice to keep out the cold in winter. In addition, polar fleece can also be combined with all fabrics to keep out the cold, for example, composite of fleece and fleece, composite of fleece and denim, composite of fleece and lamb, composite of fleece and mesh cloth with waterproof and breathable film, and so on.
The coated Oxford cloth is mainly coated with a layer of material on the basis of the cloth, which adds a special function to the cloth. This article introduces several classifications of Oxford cloth coating for readers to use.
PA coating is a widely used dry coating method, and the main component of the coating agent is polyacrylate (Polyacrylate) colloid, referred to as PA, also known as AC. This coating can make Oxford cloth windproof and sagging at the same time.
PU coating, that is, polyurethane coating, makes the fabric feel plump, elastic, and film-like on the surface.
Continue reading “14 types of Oxford cloth coating”The basic ways of printing include direct printing, discharge printing and resist printing.
Direct printing is a kind of printing directly on white fabric or on pre-dyed fabric. The latter is called overprint. Of course the color of the printing pattern is much darker than the background color. A large number of common printing methods are direct printing.
If the background color of the fabric is white or mostly white, and the printing pattern looks lighter from the back than from the front, then we can determine that this is a directly printed fabric (note: this method coul dnot be used for light and thin fabric for the strong penertration of the printing paste.)
If the background color of the fabric is the same (due to matching dyeing), and the printing pattern is much darker than the background color, then this is the overprint fabric.
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Clothing fabrics will appear in a new pattern with the development of the times. The research, development and design of fabrics also need to adopt new ideas under new conditions and at new levels. The future ideas of new garment fabric product development should include the following aspects.
In the future, any kind of high-grade fabrics not only need to use new raw materials and new processing technology, but also will pay great attention to its artistic expression, especially the use of trendy colors and the combination of fashion elements to create new product styles. For example, if a set of high-grade clothing or high fashion, consumers often pay attention not only to its texture and taste, but also to its color, style and wearing style. For this reason, the design must adopt a three-dimensional way of thinking, taking both technology and art into account.
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