What kinds of silk fabrics are available

General people think that silk is satin, in fact, silk clothing and products as a unified mark of 100% silk, but there are many types, each kind of texture and effect are different.
The common types of silk fabrics are mainly double crepe, heavy crepe, qiaoqi rotten flowers, qiaoqi, double Qiao, double Qiao, sambo satin, plain satin, elastic plain crepe satin, warp knitting and so on.

Excellent brands in the fabric dyeing and finishing process, are dependent on high-tech production process, using environmentally friendly dyes, color fastness up to 3-4.5. Let people appreciate the unique color of silk fabrics, while maintaining the nutritional and natural silk fabrics. In the fabric post-processing process also carried out different degrees of pre-shrinkage, to ensure that the fabric used in clothing shrinkage rate of 0.5-3% .

The variety characteristics of silk fabrics are introduced as follows:

1. Crepe-de-crepe: the crease resistance is good after high temperature setting. The fabric has stable structure, high dyeing saturation and bright color. The advantage of heavy crepe is that the fabric has better drape and crease resistance.
   This kind of real silk weaves more fine, not easy to hook silk, more wear-resistant, take in the hand close look have natural luster, but not the kind of bright satin, also easier to take care of.

Qiaoqi: there are thin and transparent qiaoqi and rotten flowers qiaoqi, but also thick and waxy heavy qiaoqiao. Qiaoqi’s advantages are elegant thin, heavy qiaoqi’s advantages are crisp, strong resilience, good drape.
Georgette is the most commonly used fabric, Georgette is characterized by thin and transparent, summer as a skirt, there is elegant aesthetic, very suitable for young women, but this fabric is easy to hook silk wrinkle, not wear, i’m not the most careful person. I usually wear the same dress twice and break it several times. The heartbreak, the Double Joe, is a Georgette with a fine weave. It’s denser and heavier, so it’s in texture, drooping, anti-wrinkle, wear a lot better.

3, Mulberry Wave Satin: silk fabric in the regular fabric, satin texture clear, antique, very noble.
I’m not familiar with this one. I wonder if it means silk with veins? I have made some pearl satin fabrics before, satin fabrics, but the fabric pressure grain, texture is very special, and very expensive.
4, plain crepe satin: silk fabric in the conventional fabric, bright satin very noble, feel smooth, dense organization; the fabric shrinkage rate is relatively large, after the water gloss decline.
This is a lot of people in the mind of silk fabric, do qipao material, like pearl smooth luster, bright colors, beautiful ah! This fabric feels good in the hand, so the buyer’s satisfaction is usually very high when selling satin clothes; this fabric is easy to wrinkle, so after ironing, smooth, to perfect shine it; Satin is a very noble fabric, in fact, some design with this fabric to do is really very beautiful, noble and very brand.
The lustre of silk satin was bright, but it was soft, and the touch was smooth and soft. The luster of imitation satin tint was more dazzling, and the touch was more rough. Of course, a good imitation satin tint was not as good as real silk satin, but still good, we generally used for lining and local.

Elastic Crepe Satin: a new fabric, the composition is 90% -95% silk, 5% -10% Spandex, is woven fabric. It is characterized by good elasticity, comfort, shrinkage is relatively small, unique style.
This is not 100% silk, added other ingredients, the fabric is elastic, drape very good. This depends on the amount of silk ingredients, the greater the proportion of silk, the more bias to feel satin, the more beautiful luster.

6. Double Palace silk/silk: also known as Thai silk, silk is reeled from silkworm cocoons. A certain proportion of the upper cocoon or the secondary cocoon can also be mixed into the cocoon batch of double palace cocoon for reeling. Bigong silk is characterized by the thick and knotty silk strips, the surface of the apparent irregular knob, solid texture, fabric unique style, because the surface of the bigong silk flash and knob special style, also known as knob silk
   Double palace silk texture neat, shiny, but shiny is not as bright as satin, but more restrained low-key, very high-grade. Because the texture is crisp, generally used as a dress, autumn clothing, summer use less. This kind of silk is much more expensive than ordinary silk, and it belongs to high-grade silk fabric. However, because of the appearance of lumps, it is very easy to misunderstand, feel that the clothes are very serious silk, selling expensive quality is so poor, so it is best to consult the seller before buying.

7, warp knitting: Feel Soft, delicate, soft and comfortable, is the knitting class of new special fabrics, high-tech content, is a high-grade boutique.
This is knitted silk. This kind of fabric is very expensive, and nowadays many are not made of 100% silk, but are made of silk mixed with other fabrics, as for the specific content is to rely on experts to test. How to identify I am not clear, can only listen to the manufacturer’s introduction and rely on their own to touch feel its texture.

The types of silk products are too many to list. Each fabric has its own characteristics, all have her advantages and disadvantages, silk clothes wear comfortable, beautiful, especially suitable for summer wear, but at the same time it is very delicate, not easy to take care of, not durable. This depends on the needs of each person, the most important choice for their own fabric.

[ crepe de Chine ]

Crepe de Chine, is made of silk as raw materials of silk satin, its characteristics, is a two-way surface of the fine crepe, so called crepe. The warp and weft of Crepe de chine are 20/22D2 silk and 20/22D2-4 silk, which are combined with s-twist and z-twist, because the weft of s and Z twist direction and the warp of non-twist direction interlace, the weft twist direction respectively twist, therefore, on the silk surface reflects two kinds of different twist direction fine distortion esthetic sense crepe.

Crepe de chine comes in a wide range of sizes. It’s 70,90,100,114,140 cm wide. It weighs 8.5,9,10,12,14,15,16,18,20,22 meters per meter. There are pure white, dyed, printed. Suitable for men’s and women’s shirts, but also do a variety of embroidered clothes, a wide range of uses. Our Country Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Sichuan, Guangdong, Shandong and other silk production areas have production, and exports to the world. Is our country satin production and export of an important variety, accounting for my real silk production and export of 15% and more than 10% of the total.

Crepe de Chine due to its many characteristics, quality is poor, wide use, popular, popular.

Taffeta is the first refined silk degumming into silk refining (cooked silk) warp, weft, with plain weave into the first refined silk, also known as cooked goods. There are three kinds of taffeta: plain taffeta, striped taffeta and flower taffeta. They are all famous traditional varieties in the world, and also special products of Suzhou and Hangzhou in our country. In particular, the taffeta produced by Suzhou Dongwu Silk Mill, “King of the tower”. The characteristics of Tuff silk, due to its warp and weft lines are after a special processing. For example, the warp yarn is 20/22D silk, one strand is added s twist 800T/M first, then two strands are combined and added 2 twist 600T/m; the weft yarn is 20/22D silk, one strand is added s twist 600T/M first, then three strands are combined and processed twist 600T/m. Then the warp and weft lines are refined and woven into taffeta. Therefore, the warp and weft line Crisscross Point Close, the gap is small, the silk surface appears unusually flat, and because of the warp and weft line after special processing, the body of silk firm and soft. The width and weight of plain, strip, GTAFFETA or flower-taffeta can be arranged according to the need. There are 90cm, 13.5 m/m, 100,114cm, 12,16m/m, etc. . Taffeta is the top of the women’s dress, Europe and the United States and many areas of women like it. However, taffeta production process is complex, output is not much, only limited supply, so it is more rare.

Jacquard

Jacquard silk, with Jacquard machine to make the warp and weft interlaced point woven into a variety of patterns of satin, is a large class of satin, is printed on the silk pattern of a different class. Among them in the warp Jacquard of Crepe de chine, in the silk warp Jacquard of Crepe de Chine, in the spinning warp Jacquard of the said flower spinning, and so on. There are all kinds of silk and satin warp Jacquard, there are brocade, soft satin, flower-rich spinning, flower big silk, especially there is a jacquard silk on the printing, that is, the combination of Jacquard printing satin.

Jacquard silk, in addition to the well-known traditional varieties of our country brocade, antique satin, Keli Satin, jinbaodi, velvet and so on, there are contemporary world’s best-selling flower crepe satin, longevity satin, nine Chardonnay satin, flowers wide twisted, soft satin and so on. At present Jacquard printing, flower satin is also very popular in Western Europe.

A variety of Jacquard silk, can be adapted to a variety of inside and outside clothing and decorative needs, underwear, coats and gowns, quilt, bedspread and chair cover, but also can be used for wall paste and a variety of decorative. Using Real Silk Jacquard as wall fabric, not only beautiful and generous, but also suck gas, adjust the indoor temperature. Our country silk origin produces jacquard silk, accounts for me silk, the total output above 35% , accounts for the silk export quantity 20% .

Silk Gauze: also known as plain gauze, is to mulberry silk for the warp and weft of the gauze. Warp and weft filaments are twisted to plain weave. The density of warp and weft is sparse and the fabric is thin. The fabric is semi-refined (only part of sericin is removed) and then dyed to variegated or printed. There are also yarn-dyed ones. Silk crepe and transparent, feel flat slightly rigid, fabric hole clear. Mainly used for women’s evening dress, wedding dress, dress and so on.

Taffeta: taffeta, also known as Taffeta, is a high-end silk fabric woven with plain weave. In fabric, warp yarn is made of two twisted colored cooked silk and twist, weft yarn is made of three twisted colored cooked silk and twist, and the density of warp and weft is higher than that of weft. According to the raw materials used, there are silk taffeta, twin-palace taffeta, silk-cotton taffeta, silk-weft taffeta, man-made taffeta and Tuff, etc. . According to the weaving technology, there are plain taffeta, two-color flash taffeta, tartan taffeta and Jacquard taffeta with Jacquard weaving machine and other varieties. Taffeta close and clean, flat silk surface, smooth and delicate, feel stiff, bright color, soft and bright color, not easy to stick to ash. Mainly used for women’s Spring, autumn clothing, festival dress, down jacket fabrics.

Bigong silk: plain silk fabric with ordinary mulberry silk as warp and Bigong silk as weft. Because weft thick warp thin, double palace silk strips have irregular distribution of knob-shaped bamboo, therefore, fabric has a unique style. According to the situation of dyeing and finishing, it can be divided into two kinds: matching dyeing and mature dyeing. In the cooked weaving, there are shining double-palace silk and checked double-palace silk with contrasting colors of warp and weft. The double palace silk surface is rough and uneven, the texture is close and firm, the color light is soft. Mainly used as summer shirts, skirts and jackets of men and women fabrics.

Electric spinning: Mulberry silk is used to make silk-like fabrics. The fabrics are compact and clean, soft and firm in hand, soft in luster and comfortable in wearing. Heavy used mainly for summer shirts, skirts and children’s clothing fabrics; medium can be used for clothing lining; light weight can be used for petticoats, headscarves, etc. . Crepe de Chine: its fabric feel soft and smooth, elastic, silken flat light, soft luster, good crease resistance, comfortable and cool to wear. Mainly used for men and women’s shirts, embroidered clothes, skirts and so on. Crepe de chine fabric shrinkage is greater.

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