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| How are structural design fabrics created? |
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| The design is produced at the same time that you produce the fabric |
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| Structural designs are temporary/permanent? |
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| What are some examples of structural design or fancy weave fabrics? |
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Dotted Swiss
(Flocked dotted swiss is APPLIED, not structural) |
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| known for and used to create small, over-all patterns |
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| What are some examples of dobby weave fabrics? |
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White on white
Waffle Cloth
Drapery Fabric |
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| Extra Filling Yarn Weaves |
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| Yarns of different colors or sizes are incorporated into the fabric at the design point only. |
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| What are some examples of Extra Filling Yarn Weaves? |
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Dotted Swiss (Extra Filling Yarns)
Stripe Shirting (Extra Warp Yarns)
Eyelash Fabric (Extra Warp Yarns)
(warp yarns run parallel to selvege) |
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Comes from the French word meaning, quilted
Produces a fabric with ridges that are called "wales" or "cords" (held up by floats at the back of the fabric) |
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| What are some examples of Pique Weaves? |
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Pinwale Pique (chord/stripe effect)
Birdseye Pique (floats on back)
Stuffer yarns |
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| Large figured designs woven on jacquard looms |
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| What are some examples of Jacquard Weaves? |
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Damask (reversible and flat, has satin floats on a satin background)
Brocade (has floats in the design that are more varied in length and are often very different colors)
Tapestry (More complicated; 2 or more sets of warp yarns and 2 or more sets of filling yarns; intelaced so that the face warp is never woven into the back and the back filling does not show on the surface) |
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Open effect; laced like weaves
mosquito netting, bags for laundry, bags fro fruits and vegetables
Strong
Warp yarns are crisscrossed |
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| What are some examples of Leno Weaves? |
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| Drapery Casement and Marquisette |
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| is a class of weaves with no wale or other distinct weave effect, resulting from an irregular interlacing pattern |
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| What are some examples of momie weaves? |
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wool crepe
polyester crepe
contract upholstery crepe |
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| is a fabric made by weaving two fabrics with four setso fyarns (2 sets of warp and 2 sets of filling yarns) on the same loom. The 2 fabrics are connected by periodically reversing the positions of the two fabrics from top to bottom. Double weave is also known as pocket cloth or pocket weave. |
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| What are some examples of Double Cloth? |
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Pocket cloth (2 warp and 2 filling)
Matelasse (2 warp 2 filling; extra yarns that hold it together at the point of the design; loks a bit quilty) |
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3D fabrics
Extra yarns that form a dense cover of ground fabric
Can have extra set of filling yarns or warp yarns into the ground fabrics to make loops
high pile
adds warmth
used in the lining of coats and jackets
have to keep extra clean and pressed to keep th epile erect
Have to be careful-most pile fabrics have an up and down ( make sure you get 2 pattern pieces in the same direction or else they look like a completely different color) |
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| What are some examples of a Pile Fabric? |
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Corduroy
Velveteen
(both have an extra set of filling yarns; prominent warp yarn wales; break vertically; caterpillar in the warp direction; filling direction falls off easily)
(Cut and brushed an pressed to have a pile of a certain angle)
Made from staple or SPUN yarns. |
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Velvet
Has more formal look than velveteen
if you want to press velvet you want to put it upside down on a needle board and press it (with an iron)
Made from filament yarns
Most fabrics are on a "volt" |
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| Most fabrics are put on a "volt": which fabric is not put on one? |
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Velvet
because you don't want it to have extra weight or stress put on it |
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| What are examples of warp pile fabrics? |
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Velvet
Terry Cloth
Seersucker |
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| Double cloth method w/ warp pile |
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| weave 2 velvet cloths at the same time and connect with warp yarns |
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| Fabrics break Horizontally/Vertically in a warp pile fabric |
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Horizontally
(filling Caterpillar) |
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Made by slack tension method
meaning some yarns are under tension and some are slack (the slack yarns make the loops for the terry cloth)
Has extra set of warp yarns
Has loops and cut pile (loops are more absorbent than cut pile) |
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Made by slack tension weave
stripe will always be in the warp direction
Shirts/ summer men clothes
Permanent pucker because of slack tension weaving (if you tried to iron it out you would have difficult time trying to get crinkles out of it)
Structural weave |
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