Types of fabrics - a description of the most popular species

Quality, beautiful and fashionable fabric is the key to the success of every garment. Different types of fabrics are easily created due to some features of the raw material and various weaving interlacing, which determines their structure, properties, appearance. What are the names of the tissues and their characteristics, as well as properties? All this will be discussed in this article.

It is possible to divide all types of fabrics by types of raw materials: natural, synthetic and artificial.

By the color solution, you can divide the types of fabrics into multicolored (melange, mulled, printed, multicolored) and monochrome.

The centuries-old history of weaving has created a huge number of various types of fabrics that amaze with the choice of textures, surface effects, patterns.

Types of fabrics

Azhur - is a matter of woolen, cotton or silk yarn, which has a through ornament.

Angora - is made of warm wool of angora young goats and rabbits, bred on farms of Italy, Japan, England, France.

Atlas is a smoothly dyed fabric of satin weave made of silk threads with a noticeably shiny surface.

Velvet is a soft cotton fabric with a slightly pile surface. It can be patterned or smoothly dyed.

Baptiste - dense and light, linen or cotton, soft to the touch fabric of a wide linen weave.

Coarse calico - a dense linen or cotton cloth kind of linen weave, which is produced from carded yarn.

Velveteen is a thick cotton fabric with an interesting cut pile, which has pile strips.

Velor is the common name for materials that have a velvety, pile-like face. This includes not only fabrics (cotton, artificial silk, wool), but also felt and genuine leather. Some countries call velvet such fabrics as corduroy and velvet.

Viscose - the so-called artificial fiber made of cellulose and thin fabric based on it.

The veil is a transparent thin fabric of cotton linen weave.

Gabardine - wool blend or pure woolen fabric of twill kind of weave, on the surface of which there are noticeable diagonal scars. Has a high water resistance and wear resistance due to uniformity and density of the surface.

Guipure - a beautiful lace fabric of thin silk or cotton threads, consisting of separate fragments, connected by threads between each other.

Denim (ie jeans) is a cotton fabric of twill or linen weave, which is characterized by a high level of density and strength.

Devore is an interesting matter on which the pattern is obtained by artificially burning (or rather, chemical etching) some part of the fibers.

Drape - a woolen soft fabric with a very smooth surface, as a result of the swath, which forms a kind of felt felt that covers the weaving weave.

Cashmere - half-woolen or woolen fabric with a diagonal hem on the entire surface. It is made from the wool of Himalayan goats.

Crepe-satin - a thin double-sided fabric made of silk artificial threads: 1 side - satin, 2 - matte with a certain crepe effect.

Flax is a fabric that is made of yarns that are produced from flax stems.

Organza - a transparent material, hard to the touch, is made of chemical fibers or natural silk.

Brocade is a dense fabric of contented complex workings with beautiful patterns of silver and gold threads.

Polyamide (nylon) is a dense synthetic fiber and also a fabric made of it, which has a high wear resistance and an exceptionally strong tensile strength.

Polyester is a modern synthetic material that has softness and good air permeability.

Reps is a rather dense fabric made from silk, cotton and woolen yarns that are made from combed yarn in a duck and a base. It has a plain weave.

Sarza - matter of woolen or silk threads is twill weave.

Satin is a fabric made from silk, cotton and woolen yarns with a shiny surface.

Tweed is a woolen rough fabric of the twill weave type.

Cotton is a pure natural fiber, which is made from a small cotton plant.

Silk is a beautiful lightweight fabric that is made from threads obtained mechanically from cocoons of silkworms.

Wool is a warm matter formed from natural fibers, which are made from wool of camels, goats, sheep.

Chiffon is a translucent, delicate, thin fabric of cotton, viscose, silk, or synthetic fibers formed during the crepe twist process.

Various types of fabrics for clothes allow designers, fashion designers and seamstresses to create more and more new images.