Fabrics for apparel and furnishing

August 20, 2017

Loosely woven fabric

Non Woven Fabric

Constructor: Damon Gulczynski Relative difficulty: Easy THEME: none Word of the Day: RATINÉ (28A: Rough, loosely woven fabric) — n. A loosely woven fabric with a rough nubby texture. (thefreedictionary.com) • • • Fastest Saturday in a long, time. Under 8, and I stopped to take screen grabs, so yeah…
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August 19, 2017

Organic cotton Quilting Fabrics

Organic Cotton

Gina Pantastico, Director of Operations for Cloud9 Fabrics, joins our Slow Sewing series with a discussion on a slow and healthy organic fabric production process. Part One covers farming and Part Two next week will focus on harvesting, printing/finishing and social compliance. (Excerpt image is an adapted…
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August 18, 2017

Polyester fabric characteristics

Types Of Fabrics

On Monday March 1, Brentano Design Director Iris Wang visited the Fundamentals of Textiles for Fashion course at Columbia College in Chicago. Invited by Bruce Woods, a Professor in the Universitys Art Design Department, Wang spent nearly four hours discussing textiles with the class. The majority of…
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August 17, 2017

Silk Gauze fabric

Gauze

More useful articles can be found here: 100 % Silk: We Use Natural Silk! Silk is a natural material made from the silk worms cocoon. It s an animal protein fiber, just like wool or leather. Many people do not realize this characteristic for the magic of silk. Silk also has other valuable properties: it is insulating but breatheable. It is antimicrobial like wool. It is also…

August 16, 2017

Fashion Knit fabric

Knit

Identifier: fabricsweareprin00amer Title: Fabrics we are printing and how we do it Year: 1920 (1920s) Authors: American Printing Company Subjects: Calico-printing Textile printing Dyes and dyeing Publisher: [New Bedford, MA] : American Printing Company Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Digitizing Sponsor: Claire T. Carney…

August 15, 2017

Cashmere fabric characteristics

Types Of Fabrics

Although none of the luxury fibres, including silk, is produced in large quantities, their particular and unique qualities of fineness, softness, warmth and pleasurable handle mean that they occupy a very important place in the luxury apparel and fine furnishing trades. This book covers all aspects of the growth, physical characteristics, production, marketing and consumption…