YARNS
- Created by: Rebecca
- Created on: 07-11-14 09:01
View mindmap
- YARNS
- FANCY
- Chenille
- Cut pile yarn
- Bouclé
- Made by a special folding process to produce the loops visible
- Slub
- Single/folded yarns with different varieties of thickness
- Bourette
- Folded yarns containing short, often coloured bunches of fibres at intervals
- Crepe
- The yarns are highly twisted to make fabric with a wrinkled surface
- Chenille
- CORE - SPUN
- Multi-component yarn consisting of more than one filament
- Staple fibres are spun around a core filament yarn
- Can be used to make elastane fabrics (use an elastane filament for the core)
- CONTINUOUS FILAMENT YARNS
- Made from filament fibres
- All are man-made fibres with the exception of silk
- Filament fibres are lightly twisted together
- Mono filament yarn (made from one thick filament)
- Multi filament yarns (made from at least two filaments)
- STAPLE SPUN YARNS
- Staple fibres which are carded (so they lie in the same direction) and are spun together
- May contain fibres of the same type or a blend of different ones
- TEXTURED YARNS
- False Twist: uses the thermoplastic properties of the fibre. They are twisted then heat-set then untwisted to produce crinkles
- Air-jet texturizing doesn't rely on the thermoplastic properties of the fibre. A jet of cool air is directed onto the filament, producing waves and loops
- FOLDED/PLIED YARNS
- Made by twisting together at least two single yarns
- CABLED YARNS
- Made by twisting together folded/plied yarns
- FANCY
Comments
No comments have yet been made