Bamboo seen in the clothing industry as an Eco-chic and functional new fabric. Softer than cotton and with a texture more akin to silk or cashmere, bamboo clothing naturally draws moisture away from the skin, and it dries faster. Read more..

Blend is a term that applied to a yarn or a fabric made up of more than one fiber. In blended yarns, two or more different types of staple fibres are spun or twisted together to form the yarn. Read more..

Blue scale is a standard comparative scale from 1 to 8 (1=very poor, 8=excellent)which is used for assessing the light fastness of printed or dyed fabrics and textiles (1 = very poor, 8 = excellent). It consists of 8 standards blue dyeing on smooth wool fabric with varying degrees of sensitivity to the action of daylight or artificial light. Read more..

Composite fabrics is a term used to describe an engineered fabric with two or more different types of fibres composed in a sheath-core or side-side relation. Often one component is a strong fiber such as carbon, fiberglass or Kevlar, that gives the material its tensile strength, Read more..

Viscose and Acetate, derived from cellulose were almost all the man-made fibres in existence before World War II. During the 1930s, after intensive fibre research, several new synthetic fibres were produced experimentally which led to the production of nylon.. Read more..

Moisture regain Moisture regained is a  measurement term used to describe the weight of moisture in a material expressed as a percentage of the oven-dry weight; moisture regains is an important element in whether or not a fibre, yarn or fabric is likely to static electricity, which causes a fabric to cling; high regain and [...]

PES is the name for polyester; synthetic material derived from petrochemicals. Read more..

PET is the group called Polyethylene terephthalate, thermoplastic polymer resin of the polyester family that is used in synthetic fibres. Levi’s made jeans out of recycled plastic bottles in 2013. read more..

Chemicals combined into large molecules called polymers, produce fibres like nylon, polyester, spandex, acrylic, mod acrylic, olefin, saran, spandex, and vinyl.

Textile substrate Textile substrate is a term used to describe a substance witch upon an enzyme reacts (surface treatments) In other words, compounds that undergo reactions with enzymes. Included are different colorants dyes, natural sizing and thickener materials, such as starches and cellulose derivatives, etc. The common textile substrates for enzymes are natural fibres. However, [...]

Trevira is a branded type of Polyester, produced by Hoechst Fibres Inc. It offers better to pull performance than regular Polyester.