When most people see clothes or want to buy them, they will first use their hands to touch them and try out the feel, because clothes made of different fabrics have different feelings to the touch, so how can we identify them in all aspects? What? Don’t worry, let someone with experience in the professional clothing industry teach you a few tricks.
1. Differences between different clothing materials
1. Feel: Silk is soft to the touch. Viscose, nylon.
2. Weight: nylon, acrylic, and polypropylene are lighter than silk; cotton, linen, viscose, and rich fiber are heavier than silk; vinylon, wool, and vinegar are similar in weight to silk. fiber, polyester.
3. Strength: Stretch by hand until it breaks. The weaker ones are glue, acetate fiber, and wool; the stronger ones are silk, cotton, linen, synthetic fibers, etc.; after moistening with water The strength is significantly reduced in protein fiber, viscose, and cupro fiber.
4. Elasticity: When stretched by hand, wool and acetate are less elastic; cotton and linen are more elastic; silk, viscose, rich fiber and most synthetics are moderately elastic. fiber.
Fabric
2. Distinguish various clothing materials through sensory perception
Cotton : Slim and soft, low elasticity, absorbs sweat and wrinkles easily.
Hemp: It feels rough and hard, often has defects and wrinkles easily.
Silk: shiny, soft, bright in color, warm in winter and cool in summer.
Wool: elastic, soft luster, warm to the touch, not easy to wrinkle, but prone to pilling.
Polyester: good elasticity, smooth, strong, stiff and cool.
Nylon: Not easy to break, elastic, smooth, light texture, not as soft as silk.
Vilon: similar to cotton, with a dull luster, not as soft as cotton, has poor resilience and wrinkles easily.
Acrylic fiber: good warmth retention, high strength, lighter than cotton, soft and fluffy.
3. Identify real silk and rayon through the feel method
Real silk feels soft and elastic, and has a silky sound and a cool feeling when gently rubbed; while rayon feels soft and elastic. It is relatively thick and hard, and feels wet and cold.
The luster of silk is softer, bright and soft; the luster of rayon is similar to metal.
Hold the fabric tightly and then release it. Silk will wrinkle less than rayon.
Put water on the fabric and rub it with your hands. Rayon is easy to break, while silk is stronger.
Feel the fabric
4. Through combustion, the burning characteristics of several commonly used fibers (pay attention when operating Safe):
Cotton: Close to flame, it will not shrink or melt. When exposed to flame, it burns rapidly with orange flame and blue smoke. Leave the flame and keep burning. Burning paper produces less odor and ash, which is linear in shape. The ash is soft, light gray, and easily turns into powder when touched.
Front: Same as above, less ash, light gray, or off-white, and easily turns into powder when touched.
Silk: Close to the flame, it curls and does not melt. On contact with flame, burns slowly. Leave the flame and extinguish itself. The flame is orange and very small. The odor-producing dark brown balls of burned feathers or hair turn into powder easily when touched.
Hair: Close to the flame, curled but not melted. When exposed to flame, it will burn with smoke and bubbles. Leave the flame and keep burning. Sometimes it goes out by itself and the flame is orange. Burning feathers or hair produces a lot of odor-producing ash, forming shiny, amorphous black lumps that easily turn into ash when touched.
Viscose: close to the flame, burns quickly, orange flame with less smell of burning paper, dark gray or light gray.
Polyester: When close to the flame, it shrinks first and then melts. Contact with flame, melt and burn. Leave the flame and keep burning. The flame is yellow-white, bright, with linear black smoke at the top. Special aromatic smell, dark brown amorphous hard lumps or small balls, which can be crushed with fingers.
Burning fabric
Identification of clothing fabrics does not necessarily require scientific machine identification. These skills passed down by our ancestors are also worth learning. We know how to identify clothing fabrics with our hands. It has become a common and practical method, and it will play a great role for the little fairies who like to buy and buy.
