5 Minutes To Teach You How To Recognize Fabric From Count And Density!
Oct 20, 2021
About the fabric
Many people outside the line including just entered the line of people may not be very clear, those who sell very expensive fabrics, in the end is where? Today, xiaobian said that the fabric sold expensive, is where. Let's start with a few technical words. The number and density of the fabric, and the impact of the thickness of the yarn on the fabric. So how can you spot good fabric? Here are some simple numbers and density knowledge.
Yarn count
Colloquially, count is a unit used to measure the thickness of yarn. The number of common yarns is 30, 40, 60, etc. The higher the number, the finer the yarn, the smoother the wool texture, and the higher the grade. But the number of fabrics and fabric quality is not necessarily related. More than 100 fabric can be called "super". The concept of count is more suitable for worsted fabrics, it is not significant to woolen fabrics, such as Harris tweed woolen fabrics, count is very low.
high
High count and high density generally represent the texture of pure cotton fabric. "High count" refers to the high number of yarns used in the fabric, such as cotton yarn JC60S, JC80S, JC100S, JC120S, JC160S, JC260S, etc. The yarn count unit in British system, the higher the yarn count is, the thinner the yarn count is. In terms of production technology, the higher the yarn, the longer the cotton wool used in spinning, such as "long staple cotton" or "Ai and long staple cotton", such yarn is even, high flexibility, luster or good.
high-density
In each square inch of fabric, the warp yarns are called warp yarns and weft yarns are called wefts, and the number of warp roots plus the number of wefts is the density of the fabric. Usually said "high density", refers to the fabric of warp and weft yarn density is very high, that is, a lot of fabric yarn in unit area, such as: 300 roots/square inch, 400 roots/square inch, 600 roots/square inch, 1000 roots/square inch, 12000 roots/square inch, etc., the higher the yarn can be woven more high density fabric.
Plain weave fabric
The warp and weft are interwoven at intervals, and such fabrics are called plain weave fabrics. It is characterized by many interweaving points, crisp texture, positive and negative appearance effect is the same, the fabric is relatively thin, good air permeability, the number of about 30, the price is relatively civilian.
twill
Warp and weft are interwoven at least once every two yarns, and the fabric structure can be changed by increasing or decreasing the warp and weft interweaving point, which is called twill fabric. It is characterized by positive and negative points, less interweaving points, longer floating lines, soft feel, higher fabric density, thicker products, stronger three-dimensional sense. There are 30, 40 and 60 branches.
yarn-dyed
Yarn-dyed refers to the use of pre-dyed yarn when weaving into cloth, rather than weaving the yarn into white cloth and dyeing the color. Yarn-dyed cloth has uniform color and no color difference. It has better color fastness and will not fade easily.
Jacquard fabric: Compared with "printing" and "embroidery", refers to the fabric when weaving, with the change of warp and weft organization to form the pattern, jacquard fabric requires fine yarn count, high requirements for raw material cotton.
