Taffeta is a crisp, lightweight fabric that is commonly used to make a variety of types of high-end women’s apparel. This plain woven fabric is smooth to the touch, and it can be made from a variety of different materials.
Traditionally, taffeta was made from silk, but with the advent of synthetic fibers in the 20th century, textile manufacturers started making this fabric from materials like rayon and polyester. One of taffeta fabric’s most notable attributes is its shape retention.
Many other thin fabrics tend to lose their shape as they are worn, but taffeta’s starched texture makes it possible to shape this fabric into a number of different forms that don’t deform or become distorted over the course of an evening.
When taffeta is worn, it produces a relatively noisy rustle due to its crispness. India is the biggest producer and exporter of taffeta fabric. Besides, the fabric is also produced in China, Pakistan, France, Italy and Russia.Taffeta is very breathable. It has low moisture-wicking abilities, low heat retention & low stretch abilities. It is not at all prone to pilling/bubbling.
It requires cold hand wash or dry cleaning.Taffeta is considered to be a luxury fabric, and it is relatively prone to damage. Therefore, it isn’t commonly used in everyday clothing; on the contrary, it is more common to see this type of fabric used in big-ticket apparel like wedding dresses and evening wear.
Due to its iconic rustling and lightweight heft, this fabric is commonly used in party attire of all kinds. For instance, it is frequently used to make party costumes, and it can also be used to make costumes for stage plays. Due to its softness, piece-dyed taffeta is sometimes used to make linings for jackets and coats. Beyond apparel, taffeta fabric is also used to make a number of consumer items.
For instance, umbrellas are commonly made with this fabric, and taffeta fabric is also used to make certain forms of insulation. In addition, this substance is sometimes used to make handbags and the stuffing in sleeping bags, and during World War II, this fabric was commonly used to make parachutes.
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1. Grain: For woven textiles, grain refers to the orientation of the weft and warp threads. The three named grains are straight grain, cross grain, and the bias grain.
Non-woven materials such as felt, interfacing or leather do not have a grain. a. straight grain: The straight grain is oriented parallel with the warp threads and the selvedge.
The straight grain typically has less stretch than the crossgrain since the warp threads will be pulled tighter than the weft during weaving. Most garments are cut with the straight grain oriented top to bottom b. the crossgrain: The cross grain runs perpendicular to the selvedge and parallel to the weft threads.
The cross grain generally has more stretch than the straight grain since the weft threads are generally looser than the warp during weaving. Most garments (like pants or shirts) are cut on the straight grain with the cross grain parallel with the floor when the wearer is standing. This allows more stretch through the width of the garment, such as in a pants leg which needs more circumferential than vertical stretch.
Garments are sometimes cut on the cross grain, generally because the pieces are too wide to fit on the straight grain. Bias: The bias grain of a piece of woven fabric, usually referred to simply as “the bias”, is at 45 degrees to its warp and weft threads.
Every piece of woven fabric has two biases, perpendicular to each other. A garment made of woven fabric is said to be “cut on the bias” when the fabric’s warp and weft threads are at 45 degrees to its major seam lines. Woven fabric is more elastic as well as more fluid in the bias direction, compared to the straight and cross grains.
This property facilitates garments and garment details that require extra elasticity, drapability or flexibility, such as bias-cut skirts and dresses, neckties, piping trims and decorations, bound seams, etc.
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In my previous videos, I described fabric terminologies like warp, weft, selvedge, Grain & fiber. In this video, I shall explain the term Yarn. When there is more than one fiber interlocked, it is called yarn. A long continuous strand of interlocked or twisted fibers is yarn. Textile yarn can be made with natural fiber, synthetic or man made fibers.
The essential requirements for fibers to be spun into yarn include a length of at least 5 millimeters, flexibility, cohesiveness, and sufficient strength. Other important properties include elasticity, fineness, uniformity, durability, and luster. The process of making yarn is called spinning. Yarn can be spun by machine or by hand. Yarn used for weaving tends to have a tight twist, smooth surface, and lots of lengthwise strength. Yarn for knitting has a looser twist. All textile yarn is classified according to structure, or how they are made. In general, there are three basic classifications. Let’s look at each of them.
• Staple fiber yarns are made of many short staple fibers that are wound together to make yarn. This is the most basic classification of yarn. Most staple fiber yarns are made of natural materials.
• Ply yarns are made of one or more strands of staple fiber yarns. A single ply yarn is a single strand of staple fibers held together by twisting. Two- and three-ply yarns are made of two or three single yarns twisted together. Multiple-ply yarns are used for fabrics that might require more strength or fabrics that need a desired surface effect.
• Filament yarn is made of one or more continuous strands that run the entire length of the yarn. These are much longer than staple fibers. Silk is the only natural filament yarn. Most filament yarns tend to be made from synthetic materials created by mechanical or chemical processes.
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Warp: The woven fabric is formed by two sets of yarns – one is called as warp and another set is called as weft. Any fabric created on a loom will have a warp and weft thread. Warp threads are the threads that run along the length of the yardage or fabric.
Warp runs parallel to the selvedge (horizontal axis). The lengthwise (longitudinal) or vertical set of yarns in the fabric are called as warp yarns (simply warp)
Weft: The horizontal or transverse set of yarns in the fabric are known as weft yarns (simply Weft). Weft threads run from selvedge to selvedge. Or one can also say that weft threads run perpendicular to the selvedge or the horizontal axis. Nonwoven fabrics such as felt, vinyl, suede, and leather do not have warp and weft threads.
Selvedge: Fabric selvedge is the tightly woven edge that runs along each side of a piece of fabric’s lengthwise grain, which is also called the fabric’s warp. It is a “self-finished” edge of fabric which prevents the fabric from unraveling and fraying.
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Damasks are woven on Jacquard looms. They are Patterned fabrics with a ground of one weave (usually plain, twill or sateen) and designs in other weaves (particularly satin and twill variants so that the patterned areas have sheen and reflect light. Damasks are always reversible, with the pattern weaves becoming the ground weaves on the reverse (so on a fabric with a plain ground and satin pattern front, the ground would be satin and the pattern plain on the reverse).
There are tone-ontone damasks, with different weaves within the damask creating elaborate floral or geometric patterns, and multicoloured damasks, where the background colours and the pattern colours reverse from front to back.
Brocade: Brocades are fabrics with an elaborate embossed or embroidered surface effect, usually with different ground and pattern weaves. Like Damasks, they are also woven on Jacquard looms. Unlike damask, brocades are not reversible. Continuous brocades have the weft threads left loose and floating on the back.
Some continuous brocades have the back threads cut away, though the short cut ends are still visible. A discontinuous brocade is one where additional yarns are only woven into the patterned areas, resulting in a smoother back. Brocades can be set apart from damasks in a way that the back of brocade will typically have groups of threads that have been trimmed away or left out of the weave and look messier.
Damasks, on the other hand, are different from brocade in that their woven pattern is reversible, with the opposite side presenting itself as a film negative – it has the same pattern, but the colors are opposite as to what they are on the front. So, Damasks are reversible while Brocades are not reversible. This is the biggest difference between the 2 fabrics.
I described fabric terminologies like warp, weft, selvedge, Grain, fiber & Yarn. In this video, I shall explain the term Yarn Count and its measurement according to the Indirect of Fixed weight system.Count or yarn count is a numerical expression which indicates the coarseness or fineness of a yarn.
In other words, yarn count is a number indicating the mass per unit length or the length per unit mass of the yarn. There are mainly two systems or ways of yarn count measurement, these are :(a) Indirect System / Fixed weight system ( length per unit mass )(b) Direct system / Fixed length system( mass per unit length )Indirect system of yarn count measurement:
The indirect system or fixed weight system is the yarn count system where the count of a yarn is calculated by measuring the length of a fixed / definite mass. In this system, the count of yarn is the number of length units in one weight unit.
So, the count number indicates the length per unit mass of the yarn. That is why, higher the count, finer the yarn. In indirect count system, the mass of yarn is fixed and the length of yarn varies according to its fineness. This system is widely used for measuring count of cotton yarns.
The formula to calculate yarn count in indirect system is simple. It is calculated by dividing variable length of the yarn by fixed mass of the yarn. Some of the most commonly used indirect systems include : 1)English cotton count (Ne) system, 2) Metric count (Nm) system, 3) Worsted count (NeK) system,4) Woollen count system.
