Twill
Twill is a type of textile weave with a pattern of diagonal parallel ribs (in contrast with a satin and plain weave). This is done by passing the weft thread over one or more warp threads then under two or more warp threads and so on, with …
Canvas
Canvas is an extremely durable plain-woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, and other items for which sturdiness is required. It is also popularly used by artists as a painting surface, typically stretched across …
Poplin fabric or broad cloth
Poplin, also called tabinet (or tabbinet), is a strong fabric in a plain weave of any fiber or blend, with crosswise ribs that typically gives a corded surface.[1]Poplin traditionally consisted of a silk …
Voile
Voile is a soft, sheer fabric, usually made of 100% cotton or cotton blends including linen or polyester. The term comes from French, and means veil. Because of its light weight, the fabric is mostly used in soft …
Sheeting
Due to the availability of extra wide widths, sheeting fabric is most often used to make bed linens but its light weight, easy care and versatility make it a popular fabric for quilt backs, linings and other items. …
Oxford fabric
Oxford cloth is a very popular shirting fabric, particularly for more casual or sporty styles of dress shirts. It’s a bit thicker than what we’d consider “fine” dress shirt fabrics, and has a hearty …
Pinpoint oxford fabric
It is both dressy and durable. It has a bit of shine, not as flat as broadcloth, but not as shiny as royal oxford or twill. It works well in both formal and casual occasions. A pinpoint dress shirt feels a bit …
Bed ford cord
The weave has faint lengthwise ridges, but without the filling yarns that make the distinct wales characteristic of corduroy. It can have the appearance of narrow-width stripes with thin lines between. Because …
Ripstop
The intervals are typically 5 to 8 millimeters (0.2 to 0.3 in). Thin and lightweight ripstop fabrics have a 3-dimensional structure due to the thicker threads being interwoven in thinner cloth. Older lightweight ripstop fabrics display the thicker …
TC Fabric
TC fabric refers to Tetron Cotton. It is a composition of cotton and polyester, but the polyester yarns in the fabric are always more than 50 percent of the total combination with cotton. TC fabric is very popular, because of its excellent strength …
TR Fabric
TR fabric refers to Terry Rayon, a fabric made with a polyester/viscose blend yarn. Generally it is used for suitings. Terrycloth, terry cloth, terry towelling, terry, or simply towelling is a fabric with loops that can absorb large amounts …
Corduroy fabric
Corduroy is a textile composed of twisted fibres that, when woven, lie parallel (similar to twill) to one another to form the cloth’s distinct pattern, a “cord.” Modern corduroy is most commonly composed of tufted …
Chambray fabric
A chambray is a plain weave fabric woven with a colored yarn in the warp and a white yarn in the weft. Like chambray, denim is made with a colored yarn in the warp and white in the weft, but is woven in a twill construction. The chambray’s …
Taffeta fabric
Taffeta is a crisp, smooth, plain woven fabric made from silk or cuprammonium rayons. The word is Persian in origin and means “twisted woven”. It is considered to be a “high-end” fabric, suitable for use in ball …
Mesh fabric
A loosely woven or knitted fabric, Mesh refers to a material with closely spaced holes frequently used in athletic wear and now sportswear. Ideal for creating mesh tops, tanks, activewear jerseys, laundry bags …
Tissue fabric
A favorite with women for many years now, tissue fabrics are well known for their luster and their fine finish. The tissue fabric skirts that we create for you blend the traditional strengths of tissue fabrics …
Velvet fabric
Velvet is woven on a special loom that weaves two thicknesses of the material at the same time. The two pieces are then cut apart to create the pile effect, and the two lengths of fabric are wound on separate take-up rolls. This complicated …
Flannel fabric
Flannel is a soft woven fabric, of various fineness. Flannel was originally made from carded wool or worsted yarn, but is now often made from either wool, cotton, or synthetic fiber. Vegetable flannel is made from Scots pine fibre.Flannel …
Dobby fabric
Dobby is a woven fabric produced on the dobby loom, characterised by small geometric patterns and extra texture in the cloth. The warp and weft threads may be the same colour or different. Satin threads are particularly effective in this …
Gabardine fabric
Gabardine is a tough, tightly woven fabric used to make suits, overcoats, trousers, uniforms, windbreakers, and other garments.The fibre used to make the fabric is traditionally worsted wool, but may also …
Melange fabric
Melange fabric is a fabric that has been made with more than one color of fabric, either by using different colored fabrics or made with different fabrics which are then individually dyed. For example, when mixing black and white fibers, …
Royal oxford cloth
It has an elaborate weave that gives it a distinctive, significant texture. It’s usually very shiny. Something about the weave makes it kind of sparkle.Royal Oxford Fabric is well known for its softness. Something about the weave …
Khadi fabric
In India, Khadi is not just a cloth, it is a whole movement started by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The Khadi movement promoted an ideology, an idea that Indians could be self-reliant on cotton and be free from …
Herringbone fabric
Herringbone, also called Broken Twill Weave describes a distinctive V-shaped weaving pattern usually found in twill fabric. It is distinguished from a plain chevron by the break at reversal, which makes it resemble …
Yarn Dyed
Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibres, suitable for use in the production of …. Yarn may be used undyed, or may be coloured with natural or artificial dyes. … Labels on yarn …