Fabric understanding can be useful for anyone trying to make new clothes or clean dirty ones. Particularly if you want your nice fabric to last longer, you need to properly care for it. Different fabrics have different properties, which can have a significant impact on how you treat your fabrics. An article of clothing’s fiber content, for example, will influence how it is cleaned completely differently from another fabric’s fiber content.
Here are 33 different kinds of fabric to help clarify some confusion and provide a better understanding.
1. Silk
Silk: natural animal protein fiber, smooth and soft, rich luster, warm in winter and cool in summer, when friction has a unique“Siming” phenomenon, has a good extension, good heat resistance, not salt water corrosion, not with chlorine bleach or detergent treatment
2. Viscose
Viscose: with wood, Cotton Lint, Reed, and other materials containing natural cellulose chemical material processing, also known as artificial cotton, with the basic properties of natural fibers, dyeing performance, good fastness, soft fabric, heavyweight, good drape, good moisture absorption, wearing cool, not easy to produce static electricity, fuzz, and pilling.
3. Polyester
Polyester: polyester fiber, with excellent elasticity and resilience, fabric crisp, wrinkle-free, good shape retention, high strength, good elasticity, durable, and excellent light resistance performance, but easy to produce static electricity and dust absorption hygroscopicity is poor.
4. Acetate Fiber
Acetate fiber: chemical processing from natural materials containing cellulose, Ken silk style, wear light and comfortable, have good elasticity and elastic recovery performance, not suitable for washing, poor color fastness.
5. Nylon
Nylon: for Polyamide fiber, also known as nylon, dyeing in synthetic fiber is better, wears light, and has good waterproof and windproof performance, wear resistance, high strength, and elasticity are good.
6. Hemp
Hemp: is a plant fiber, known as cool noble fiber, it has good moisture absorption, moisture fast, not easy to produce electrostatic heat conduction, rapid heat dissipation, wear cool, sweat after not close to the body, more resistant to washing, heat resistance is good.
7. Polypropylene
Polypropylene: appearance like wool long silk or cotton, with a waxy feel and luster, elasticity and resilience are generally not easy to wrinkle the proportion of small, light, clothing comfort, faster transmission of sweat to keep the skin comfortable feeling, strength and abrasion resistance are good durable, not resistant to high temperature.
8. Spandex
Spandex: good elasticity, also known as elastic fiber, also known as Lycra, good elasticity, feel smooth, hygroscopicity is small, good weather and chemical resistance, machine wash, heat resistance are poor.
9. Vinylon
Vinylon: Fabric appearance and feels like cotton, poor elasticity, moisture resistance, and thermal conductivity is small, wear light and warm, good strength and wear resistance, good resistance to chemicals, sunlight, and other properties.
10. Pure Hemp Fine Spinning
Pure hemp fine spinning: with fine, thin, crisp, smooth style, has good permeability and comfort
11. Shabu
Shabu: it is a traditional Chinese textile. The color of the fabric is white, and the luster is soft.
12. Woven Hemp Fabric
Woven hemp fabric: fine texture, strong and durable, and surface clean, feel than pure hemp fabric soft, comfortable to wear
13. Palisades
Palisades: Wool-polyester blend, smooth surface, light texture, feel crisp, crisp wrinkle, easy to wash and dry, good wearing performance
14. Gabardine
Gabardine: also known as Gabardine, feel smooth and waxy, and solid, the texture is compact and elastic, cloth surface is smooth in color light soft, and natural.
15. Melden
Melden: a woolen fabric, feel full, the surface is clean and smooth, strong body, elastic, wear-resistant not easy pilling, soft and beautiful color.
16. Plush
Plush: Also known as sea tiger plush, fluff flat stand, hair from a dense firm, good warmth, suede shiny bright, soft, feel full and thick, warm and light, with good durability.
17. Plain Cloth
Plain Cloth: simple organization, compact structure, firm and strong, the surface smooth lack of tube elasticity.
18. Thin Cloth
Thin Cloth: fabric stronger than silk, surface smooth and clean, thin like silk, soft, comfortable.
19. Poplin
Poplin: fine texture, thin and light, fabric surface soft, smooth, crisp, surface texture clear grain full, shiny, with a good texture.
20. Babassu
Babassu: Texture is very thin, wear on the body has a good sense of comfort, good moisture absorption, and permeability, unique thin, cool, and other styles.
21. Khaki
Khaki: the fabric is compact, thick, and firm, with good abrasion resistance, crispness, and clear weave.
22. Satin
Tribute satin: smooth surface, delicate, soft feel, good luster, bright color, has a good elastic texture is not easy to deformation.
23. Crepe
Crepe: Crepe, also known as walnuts, is thin and soft, smooth and novel, and easy to dye.
24. Oxford Cloth
Oxford cloth: cotton fabric with characteristics, with the soft feel, natural luster, fabric surface pores, wear comfortable, flat shape.
25. Cotton Satin
Cotton Satin: Satin Cotton products, with silk-like luster and satin style, feel the soft, thick texture, elastic, wear comfortable, good appearance and luster.
26. Corduroy
Corduroy: Soft to the touch, round and straight velvet stripes, grain is clear, plump down, solid and wear-resistant texture.
27. Flannel
Flannel: Soft to the touch, good warmth, comfortable to wear, fabric appearance of soft color.
28. Cashmere
Cashmere: light texture, and very warm, is a unique and rare animal fiber, in foreign countries have“Fiber diamond”, “Soft Gold” said, it has a soft, thin, smooth waxy, thin, elastic and other characteristics and has a natural soft color and good moisture absorption, good wear resistance.
29. Mohair
Mohair: high strength, high elastic recovery, good crease resistance, good abrasion resistance and hygroscopicity, anti-fouling, good dyeing, non-shrinkage and non-felting.
30. Plush
Plush: plump, soft, elastic, warm, not easy to deformation.
31. Tencel
Tencel: is a kind of environment-friendly fiber, in the process of purification spinning, with high-tech process, protection with all the characteristics of natural fiber, its moisture permeability, fabric drape, silk smooth, bright dyeing and other characteristics. Repeated washing, sun does not lose many health functions, not easy to pilling.
32. Bamboo Fiber
Bamboo Fiber: a kind of environmental fiber, bamboo has anti-bacterial and anti-purple ray features, in the fiber purification process with high-tech protection of natural antibacterial, anti-bacterial, deodorant and anti-ultraviolet substances, with strong air permeability, fabric drape, silk smooth, bright dyeing, anti-bacterial, deodorization, anti-uv, repeated washing and drying also lose many functions.
33. Acrylic fiber
Acrylic fiber: commonly known as“Artificial wool” with soft, warm, strong characteristics, surface smooth, compact structure, not easy to deformation, shrinkage after washing is very small.
