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There is a kind of cloth that feels soft, like cotton, and a little fluffy. Do you know what kind of cloth this is?

It is corduroy, also called flannel.

Cotton fabric with weft cutting and stacking, and forming longitudinal velvet belt on the surface. Corduroy is called corduroy because it looks like corduroy.

Corduroy has a thick texture and good warmth retention, and is suitable for making decorative products such as coats, shoes and hats, curtains and sofa fabrics in autumn and winter. Fabric made of weft double weave, cut pile and chenille is also called striped pile.

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Features:

Corduroy is a kind of weft pile cotton fabric, which is interwoven by a set of warp yarns and two sets of weft yarns. The bottom weft yarns interweave with the warp yarns to form consolidated plush. After the wool yarn is interwoven with the warp yarn, the fluff is covered on the cloth surface, and various wool strips with different thicknesses are formed after finishing.

Fabric use:

Corduroy strips are round and plump, the fluff is wear-resistant, the texture is thick, the hand feels soft and the warmth is good. Mainly used for coats, shoes and hats in autumn and winter, but also suitable for furniture decorative cloth, curtains, sofa fabrics, handicrafts, toys and so on.

Fabric washing:

When washing corduroy, you can't scrub hard, and you can't scrub hard with a hard brush. Brush gently along the fluff direction with a soft brush, don't iron it, and don't use force when collecting it, so as to keep the fluff plump and towering. Generally, printed corduroy is printed before brush pile, so the pattern design must consider its effect after brush pile, and the pattern cannot be slender.

Common fabrics:

1, elastic

Elastic corduroy: Add elastic fibers to the warp and weft at the bottom of corduroy to get the warp and weft elastic corduroy. The addition of spandex yarn improves the comfort of clothing and can be made into tight clothing; Conducive to the compact structure of the base fabric and prevent corduroy from falling off; It can improve the shape retention of clothing and improve the phenomenon of arch knee and elbow in traditional cotton clothing.

2, viscose type

Viscose corduroy: Using viscose as velvet warp can improve the drape, lightness and feel of traditional corduroy. Viscose corduroy has improved drape, bright luster, bright color and smooth feel, just like velvet.

3, polyester type

Polyester corduroy: With the acceleration of people's life rhythm, people pay more attention to the maintainability, washability and wearability of clothing. Therefore, polyester corduroy with polyester as raw material is also an indispensable branch of this product, which is not only bright in color, good in washability and wear resistance, but also good in shape retention, and is suitable for making leisure coats.

4, color cotton type:

Colored cotton corduroy: In order to meet the needs of environmental protection today, the application of new environmental protection materials on corduroy will also make it glow with new vitality.

For example, thin corduroy made of natural colored cotton can be used as men's and women's shirts, especially children's shirts in spring and autumn, which has a protective effect on human body and environment.

Yarn-dyed corduroy: Traditional corduroy is mainly printed in piece dyeing. If it is processed into yarn-dyed products, it can be designed into different colors of cashmere and ground (which can be strongly contrasted), mixed color of cashmere, and gradual change of cashmere. Yarn-dyed and printed can also cooperate with each other. Although the cost of printing and dyeing is low and the cost of dyeing yarn is slightly higher, the richness of color will bring endless vitality to corduroy.

Cut velvet is the most important finishing process of corduroy, and it is a necessary means of corduroy pile. The traditional corduroy cutting method remains unchanged, which has become an important reason for restricting the development of corduroy.

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