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..

A plain weave fabric, with a single but different warp and weft color. In jeans-wear, fabric mills usually use a medium depth indigo warp color and natural (unbleached) weft.

Double ring-spun denim uses ring-spun yarn for both warp and weft. This is the traditional way to produce denim. Read more..

Enzyme Washing is the use of cellulose enzymes to soften the jeans and lighten a colour. The cellulosic are used because they loosen up the indigo dye in the denim. The main purpose of the enzyme wash is to make the denim appear worn, rugged, broken in and used. Read more..

A filling is also known as Weft. The lengthwise, selvage to selvage horizontal, yarns carried over and under the warp. Filling yarns generally have less twist than warp yarns because they are subjected to less strain in the weaving process and therefore, must less strength. Read more..

There are of two kinds of fluid-jet looms, one employing a jet of air, the other a water jet, to propel a measured length of weft through the shed. The significance of this is that nothing solid is passed into the shed other than the weft, which eliminates the difficulties normally associated with checking and warp protection.. Read more..

Heddles are steel wires, or thin flat steel strips held by the frame, with a loop or eye in the centre through which one or more warp yarns pass on the loom so that the thread movement is controllable in weaving. Read more..

Honeycomb fabric is the term used to describe a manufactured fabric consisting of sheet materials /fibres that has been formed into an open-ended network of hexagonal cells, each cell’s wall being shared with its immediate neighbours. Read more..

A fabric weaves where the twill line runs from the top left hand corner of the fabric towards the bottom right. Usually in piece dyed fabrics, left hand twill fabrics are woven from single plied yarns in the warp. Read more..

Loom is the weaving machine. Most famous loom manufacturers are Sulzer Ruti from Switzerland, Picanol from Belgium, Dornier from France, Tsudakoma /Toyoda from Japan and Vamatex from Italy. The word loom (from Middle English lome, “tool” Read more..

One of the three major industrial methods of dyeing indigo yarns.

Originally made in Oxford, England, it is a plain weave fabric where 2 or more filling yarns pass over and less than 1 or more parallel warp yarns. It is possible to have 2×1, 2×2, 3×2, 4×4, or 8×8. Used in dress shirting’s where the warp is a colour..read more..

Plain weave is the simplest and most common fabric weave where the filling yarn passes over and under each warp yarn in alternating rows. Read more..

Name of a light weight tightly more warp threads than filling woven plain weave fabric where a coarser yarn is used for the filling than the warp, leaving a slight rib effect across the width of the goods. Read more..

A fabric weaves where the twill line runs from the top right-hand corner of the fabric at the bottom left. Usually in a piece dyed fabric’s right hand twill use two plied yarns in the warp. Read more..

A fabric weaves where one yarn floats over a series of yarns before it interlaced once. When the warp floats over a series of picks (at least four) the fabric called satin, when the filling floats over a series of ends, the fabric called Sateen; it weaves to make fabric surfaces shiny and very smooth.

Triaxial weaving uses three sets of parallel fibres, known as the warp, the whug and the weft. These fibres are typically at angles of 60 degrees to each other. The whug is not present in conventional, biaxial weaving. Read more…

The lengthwise, vertical yarns carried over and under the weft. Warp yarns to generally have a more twist than weft yarns because they are subjected to more strain in the weaving process and therefore, require more strength.

The lengthwise, selvage to selvage horizontal, yarns carried over and under the warp. Filling yarns generally have less twist than warp yarns because they are subjected to less strain in the weaving process and therefore, require less strength. Read more..