What to know about fabrics.
Sometimes our encounter with our sale representatives when
it comes to choice of fabrics has posed some kind of challenges as most times
you find yourself not being on same page with him or her. The aim of this post
is to broaden your understanding in the world of fabric and to make sure you
and your sale rep will be on one page hopefully in your next encounter. So let’s get started.
First of all before we dive in deeply into the subject matter, we
have to understand what fabric is and so far, it is based on two major
principles which is Fiber content
and construction. In simple
illustration, take for instance to bake a
cake, For you to arrive at the final product of the cake, you need flour, sugar
well chefs reading this can help me out, this represents the Fiber and the steps involved in making
the cake, the mixing of flour, eggs and so forth represents the construction.
Next time when confronted with a question on “ what is your favorite
fabric avoid overgeneralization like saying ”Silk” because silk itself is not a
fabric but a fiber. In other words, your fiber plus construction will equals
your fabric, not wanting to sound mathematical but that’s the formula we will
be using today.
What
is fiber.
Your knowledge on fiber is important as this will guide you on how
it drips, how it retains moisture, how comfortable it will be when worn on the
body etc. so without much ado let’s go into the major classifications of Fibers.
Basically , we have two major classifications of fiber and they
include;
i)
Natural
Fibers: These are mostly fibers from natural sources which include plant
based sources like cotton and animal based like animal skin etc.
ii)
Man-Made: These are fibers that are manufactured like
polyesters ,acrylic etc
Furthermore, we have staple fibers and filament fibers, but
without really much going deeper, staple fibers are short like cotton and
filament fibers are long and silk really is a classic example of filament
fiber.
To summarize this post because, it is just a scratching of the surface as subsequently we will go further in to other advanced concept like blend and its application and guide you more on how to choose .
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