The Origin of Recycled Fabric I need to tell you a story before starting to talk about the recycled fabric. Let’s trace back to November 15th, 2007. The front door of Goodwill was crowned with a lot of people. It’s a second hand garment shop located in Fillmore street, San Francisco. They were waiting the latest released garment of famous designer Nick Graham. These clothes… Read More »Fairytale Of Recycled Fabric
What is fabric density? Fabric density is the combination of warp density and weft density. The total numbers of warp and weft yarn in a certain area. And the measurement unit is in inch. For example, like some cotton fabric, supplier will mention “40*40/128*68”. 40 is the yarn count, the thickness of a single yarn. (I will write a post about the yarn count later.… Read More »2 Best Ways To Calculate The Fabric Density
What Is Warp And Weft? What is warp and weft? It will be an easy way for the expert to tell the warp and weft side from the fabric. But for a newcomer in textile, it’s not that easy to identify it. Most of the time you will find out it’s pretty cool to tell the warp and weft direction in a few seconds. Keep… Read More »What Is Warp And Weft?
What is TR fabric? Or we may say what does it mean? T stands for Polyester and R refers to Rayon. It’s a fabric made with polyester/rayon blend yarn. This is the general meaning of TR fabric. It is a huge name and it contains many different kinds. Yarn dyed or solid, with width spandex or 4 ways stretch (weft side and warp side both… Read More »What Is TR Fabric?