What is the difference between silk, brocade, damask, silk and yarn? What are their properties and characteristics?

1, silk

Silk (sī chóu), a textile, woven with silk or synthetic fibers, man-made fibers, staple filaments, etc.; a general term for woven fabrics made of pure or interwoven silk or rayon.

Comfortable to wear. Silk is composed of protein fibers, and the human body has good biocompatibility, coupled with a smooth surface, its friction irritation coefficient of the human body in all types of fibers is the lowest, only 7.4%.

Good moisture absorption and release. Silk protein fiber is enriched with many hydrophilic groups such as amine group (-CONH) and amino group (-NH2), and because of its porous nature, it is easy for water molecules to diffuse, so it can absorb moisture or emit moisture in the air and keep a certain amount of moisture. In normal temperatures, it can help the skin retain a certain amount of moisture, not too dry skin; in the summer wear, but also the body's sweat and heat can be quickly dispersed, so that people feel cool and refreshing.

2, brocade

Saying Wen: "brocade, Xiangyi weaving text. From the silk, gold sound." That is, with colored warp and weft silk woven with a variety of patterns and patterns of textiles, referring to a variety of colorful patterns of silk fabrics.

The production process of brocade requires a high degree of difficulty in weaving, so it is the most expensive fabric in ancient times.

"Brocade, gold, also, for the use of heavy, its price as gold." The ancients regarded the brocade as the same price as gold. This fabric has two kinds of warp and weft flowers, also called warp brocade and weft brocade.

Warp brocade is interwoven with two or more sets of warp threads with a set of weft threads. The warp threads are mostly two-color or three-color, one color one as a pair, if you need more colors, you can also use the method of drafting color strips. Weft threads have bright weft and folder weft; with folder weft in each pair of table warp and bottom warp separation, with the fabric front of the warp floating point show flowers.

3, damask

Damask, referring to silk fabrics. Common varieties of damask fabrics are flowers Suya, Guangling, interwoven damask, Ni cotton damask, etc., Suya is pure mulberry silk as raw material for silk fabrics, it is light and thin, used for framing picture framing. Other damask fabrics beautiful color and light, soft touch, can do four seasons clothing.

The use of Luo silk weaving method so that the fabric surface with yarn hollow eye flower fabrics collectively referred to as Luo class silk. Luo class silk fabric varieties have horizontal Luo, straight Luo, flower Luo. Luo class silk produced in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, so also known as Hang Luo. Hang Luo due to the long history, good quality, become the Luo class fabrics of the traditional famous products, famous in China and abroad. It is a pure silk fabric, characterized by fabric style elegant, dense texture, strong, yarn holes ventilation, cooling, wearing comfortable, cool, is a good summer clothing.

4, silk

Ancient silk fabrics in general, before there is no paper, has been used as an important writing, painting and drawing materials.

Silk weaving has been practiced in China for about 5,000 years. In the late Neolithic period at the Qanshanyang site in Wuxing, Zhejiang Province, in addition to ramie cloth, a piece of silk ribbon and a small piece of silk were unearthed. Subsequently, the ancient Chinese working people created a variety of weaving methods and a wide range of silk fabrics to meet the different needs of the society in the long term production practice.

5, yarn

The cotton spun into yarn, generally through the clearing, carding, and strip, roving, spinning and other major processes. Yarn and thread for high-grade products also need to add combing process.

Production of different requirements of cotton yarn, to take different processing procedures, such as spinning cotton yarn and polyester-cotton blended yarn, as a result of the use of different raw materials, raw materials with different physical properties, as well as different product quality requirements, the need to use different production processes in processing.