Cotton covering silkWhat kind of fabric is it?
Is the surface of the cotton cover silk made of pure cotton? Will cotton coverings pill?
This is a question that friends who make fabrics are often asked recently. When selecting fabrics, anti-pilling performance is often an important indicator. At this time, it is critical to understand why the fabric pills. This issue will introduce the performance of cotton cover silk sweatshirt fabrics in terms of anti-pilling.
01 What is a cotton cover Silk fabric?
Cotton covering silk, that is, the surface is cotton and the bottom is silk (the silk here is usually polyester silk), and the cotton and silk are certain Fabrics formed by interweaving proportions.
Generally speaking, cotton has better pilling resistance than polyester. Traditional blendcvcThe fabric is woven with CVC blended yarn, so the surface of the fabric is prone to pilling, resulting in poor performance of the fabric.
In order to avoid the problem of fabric pilling, the cotton cover silk is made of cotton yarn. Yarn, polyester filament is used as the base weave, so that the side exposed on the surface of the fabric and often subject to friction is mainly cotton, which has superior anti-pilling properties compared to T/C blended yarn.
02 How to analyze fabric ease Not easy to pill?
Start with the raw materials of the fabric:
PolyesterIs one of the main textile raw materials and the most widely used synthetic fiber at present. Polyester’s scientific name is polyester fiber. Its raw materials can be obtained from petroleum, coal, natural gas, limestone and other substances.
Because of its easy availability of raw materials and large reserves, the price of polyester yarn is relatively It is cheap, which leads people to misunderstand that polyester is a low-grade fabric, or even that polyester is an inferior raw material.
Both of the above opinions are baseless. Becausepolyester has high strength, much higher than cotton fiber, and has excellent elasticity. It is close to wool, so polyester is wrinkle-resistant and easy to recover after wrinkles; polyester is sun-proof, mold-proof, and corrosion-resistant, making polyester fabrics easy to maintain; polyester has excellent wear resistance, and its wear resistance is second only to nylon, ranking second among synthetic fibers. These advantages make polyester widely used in the textile industry.material advantages.
The performance of cotton cover silk fabrics in sweatshirts:
As a jacket fabric, in addition to comfort and pilling resistance, the most important thing isAnti-wrinkleandStyle, which is why most sweatshirt fabrics used as outerwear on the market are made of cvcThe ingredient ratio is not the reason for pure cotton.
Although cotton is a natural fiber, healthy and environmentally friendly, it has several important The biggest disadvantage is that cotton fiber is not elastic enough, it is not wrinkle-resistant and does not retain its shape, and cotton is not resistant to mold. When fungi breed, the strength of cotton will be significantly reduced, and it is easy to stretch and deform. The poor shape retention performance makes pure cotton used in outerwear. The effect on fabrics is greatly reduced, so most of these fabrics are blended. On the one hand, it increases the elasticity, wrinkle resistance and shape retention ability of the fabric, and on the other hand, it also reduces the cost of raw materials.
However, fabrics woven from traditional T/C blended yarns are prone to pilling. Weaving with cotton cover silk can improve this problem.
How to overcome the shortcomings of traditional CVC blended sweatshirts that are prone to pilling?
Usually cvc sweatshirt fabric uses 32sT /C+32sT/C+10sT/C three materials, use this wayBlended yarnFuzzing and pilling will appear on the surface of the fabric, which will affect the performance of the garment.
In order to improve this phenomenon, 32-count fine cotton + 100d polyester can be used Filament +10sT/C blended yarn as raw material. Using these 3 raw materials, the fabric can still maintaincvc The ratio of cotton as the top yarn has the characteristics of pilling resistance, and polyester filament is used as the bottom yarn to weave, which can increase the The strength of the fabric can make up for the shortcomings of pure cotton that is not wrinkle-resistant and easy to deform. The padding structure makes the bottom of the fabric softer and fluffy to increase the warmth retention performance of the fabric. In the sweatshirt fabric used as outerwear, cotton cover silk has the advantage of being more shape-retaining than pure cotton, and at the same time it cleverly avoids the shortcomings of traditional CVC fabrics that are prone to pilling, thanks to the innovative ideas of modern textiles.
