Analysis of Commonly Used Fabrics for Custom-Made Furniture: A Fabric Chapter

Commonly used fabrics for custom-made upholstered furniture include cotton, linen, linen blend, silk, polyester, nylon, polyester-cotton blends, and high-density fabrics. NC Fabric 3M Waterproof microfiber fabrics, etc. These upholstery fabrics each have their own advantages and disadvantages, detailed as follows:

Cotton

Chinese Name: Cotton                                 Types: Plain weave, twill weave, satin weave, rib weave, etc.

Foreign Name: cotton cloth Advantages: Moisture-absorbing, breathable, warm, easy to process

Overview

Fabric woven from cotton yarn, a general term for all kinds of cotton textiles. Easy to dye and process, due to its natural properties,

it has long been loved by people and has become an indispensable basic necessity in life. Advantages include comfortable warmth, softness, good moisture absorption, and breathability.

Disadvantages include easy shrinkage, wrinkling, and less crisp and aesthetically pleasing appearance.

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Classification

Plain Cloth

Woven using a plain weave, the linear density of the warp yarns and the density of the warp and weft yarns in the fabric are the same or similar. Depending on the

thickness of the warp and weft yarns used, it can be divided into coarse plain cloth, medium plain cloth, and fine plain cloth.

Poplin

Woven using a plain weave, because the warp density is significantly greater than the weft density, the fabric surface forms

a diamond grain texture formed by the raised warp yarns. The fabric is clean and flat, with a fine texture, full grains, and a soft, smooth feel.

Linen Yarn

Woven with fine cotton yarn or polyester-cotton yarn, it has the crisp characteristics of linen fabrics. The fabric surface shows wide and narrow

unequal fine stripes in the longitudinal direction. It is light, thin, with clear stripes, crisp and breathable, and comfortable.

Twill

The twill weave is clearly visible on the front of the fabric, while the back is relatively blurry. The raw materials used include pure cotton, viscose, and polyester-cotton. |

The twill fabric is tightly woven and thick, with a soft feel.

Khaki

Khaki is a twill weave fabric. The raw materials used are mainly pure cotton and polyester-cotton. This fabric has a tight, thick structure,

clear texture, and is durable.

Gabardine

Twill weave. The twill angle is larger. The fabric density is less than khaki but greater than serge. The fabric is crisper than serge |

but not as thick as khaki. The fabric weave is clear, the texture is thick, and the surface is lustrous.

Oxford Cloth

Woven using weft-weighted or square plain weave in plain weave variations. The fabric has a soft color, soft body, good breathability,

comfort, and a two-color effect.

Linen

Similar in appearance to wool, using various different colors, materials, and structures of yarns and fabric weaves, it can be

designed and woven into products with various colors, patterns, and styles. It has a thick feel, strong texture, and a strong hairy feel.

Striped Fabric

It is a common variety of color-woven fabrics, with patterns mostly stripes and grids. The raw materials include pure cotton, polyester-cotton, and cotton-viscose.

Striped fabrics are light, smooth, with clear stripes, flat surface, and coordinated colors.

Linen

Chinese Name : Linen Materials: Flax, ramie, jute, sisal, banana fiber

Foreign Name: gunny Advantages: Soft, washable, sun-resistant, anti-corrosion, antibacterial

Overview

Linen is a fabric made from pure hemp fibers or blended with other fibers. It also includes fabrics containing hemp. The scope of hemp is very wide, with many varieties. Hemp fabrics have the characteristics of fast moisture absorption and dissipation, high breaking strength, and high thermal conductivity, especially the strength is the highest among natural fibers. Disadvantages include poor elasticity and low elongation at break.

Classification

 

Ramie Fabric

Fabric woven from ramie fibers, the fabric surface is tight, flat, even, and clean. After bleaching or dyeing, it can be made into various aspects

materials. It has the characteristics of fast moisture absorption and dissipation, fast heat transfer and conduction, good luster, cool and breathable, high strength, mildew-proof, and moth-proof.

Flax Fabric

Made from flax fibers, it is divided into original color and bleached types. The original color has the natural color of flax fibers. Original white...

The fabric is soft, smooth, and finely woven with a soft, elastic hand feel. It is cool, comfortable, and has a rugged style.

Other bast fiber fabrics

Such as jute, sisal, and abaca fabrics. Jute fabrics can absorb and release a large amount of water?

The fabric is breathable, has high tensile strength, and is often used in custom furniture upholstery.

Linen and cotton blend

Linen and cotton blends generally use 55% linen and 45% cotton, or linen and cotton in various 50% proportions. The appearance retains

the unique texture and style of linen fabrics, while also possessing the softness of cotton fabrics.

Wool and linen blend

Fabrics woven from various wool and linen blends in different proportions, characterized by a smooth, crisp, and elastic hand feel. The fabric is finely woven with a soft, elastic hand feel. It is cool, comfortable, and has a rugged style.

Silk and linen blend

Silk and linen stone-washed fabrics are a new product developed in recent years using stone-washing technology. It combines the excellent properties of silk and linen fabrics

and overcomes the weakness of silk stone-washed fabrics, which is decreased strength, resulting in a smooth and elastic hand feel.

Polyester and linen blend

Refers to fabrics woven from polyester and linen blended yarns, or fabrics where either the warp or weft yarns are polyester and linen blended yarns. It

combines the properties of polyester and linen fibers, is crisp and breathable, and has a strong hairy feel.

"Three-in-one" blended fabrics

Refers to fabrics blended with two other fibers in addition to linen, such as polyester-wool-linen, polyester-linen-cotton, and ramie-linen. These fabrics have the

cool, comfortable, crisp, and breathable characteristics of linen fabrics, as well as the excellent properties of the other two fibers.

Characteristics

It is wear-resistant, colorfast, wrinkle-resistant, pill-resistant, anti-static, and does not mildew in damp environments. The designs are novel and fashionable, with strong decorative properties. However, the stiff and rough hand feel deters many consumers.

Velvet

Chinese Name: Velvet                         Types: Plain velvet, velveteen, flocked fabric

Foreign Name: fannelette Advantages: Strong three-dimensional effect, high gloss, soft and firm

Overview

Refers to cotton fabrics with a rich, velvety surface after napping. They are divided into single-sided and double-sided velvets.

Single-sided velvet mainly uses twill weave, while double-sided velvet mainly uses plain weave. Through the

needle-punched napping process on the surface of the fabric, more pile is produced, resulting in a strong three-dimensional effect, high gloss, and a soft and thick feel.

Velvet is soft, comfortable, and warm.

Classification

Plain velvet

Woven with a pile weave and then brushed, the surface has dense, even, upright, and glossy pile.

It is thick, soft, has a gentle luster, is durable, warm, elastic, and wrinkle-resistant.

Check velvet

In the weaving process, the warp and weft are clearly visible, and the fine appearance is in a dark grid pattern. Generally, velvets with printed patterns in a grid pattern are also

called check velvet, a commonly used fabric for custom furniture.

Velveteen

Uses mulberry silk as a raw material, or mulberry silk for warp and cotton yarn for weft, with mulberry silk or rayon pile loops.

It comes in single and double colors and is luxurious.

Flocked fabric

A new process that utilizes the natural characteristics of electric charge. It has a strong three-dimensional effect, vibrant colors, soft hand feel, luxurious

and elegant appearance, realistic imagery, is non-toxic and odorless, heat-insulating and moisture-proof, non-shedding, abrasion-resistant, and smooth.

Polyester velvet

An important variety of synthetic fibers, it has high strength, elasticity close to wool, and heat resistance and thermal stability are among the best in synthetic

fibers. It has good wear resistance. It has poor dyeing properties, but the color fastness after dyeing is good and it is not easy to fade.

Velvet

Is a general term for cut-pile woven fabrics. The surface has pile, mostly formed by cutting special warp yarns. Because the pile

is parallel and even, it shows the unique luster of velvet. It has a smooth and resilient hand feel, and is soft and skin-friendly.

Short pile velvet

Short pile velvet is a new type of knitted and warp-knitted velvet fabric. After in-depth development, it includes ultra-soft velvet,

super soft light velvet, flat yarn, and flat velvet series products, which are widely used in custom furniture at a lower price and higher quality.

Characteristics

Velvet upholstery is most impressive for its ultra-fine and soft touch. From corduroy in the past to suede today, velvet upholstery has transformed between vulgarity and elegance. It has a fashionable appearance, good color rendering, and advantages such as dust and stain resistance, but it is prone to static electricity and is more expensive than other fabrics.

Silk Fabrics

Chinese Name: Silk Fabrics             Types: Silk, Chemical Fiber Fabrics, Silk and Chemical Fiber Blends

Foreign Name: Silk Fabrics Advantages: Soft and smooth, gentle and light to the touch

Overview

Fabrics with a silk texture rely on high-tech production processes and use environmentally friendly dyes, allowing people to appreciate the unique color beauty of silk fabrics while maintaining their natural properties. The luster is soft and bright, with a pearly sheen. However, it is prone to wrinkles and shrinkage.

Double Crepe

Made from tussah silk, its characteristic is that the silk surface shows bidirectional fine wrinkles, and it has a wide range of uses. It is an important variety of silk production and export in China, with good quality and wide applications, making it popular and in high demand.

Taffeta

There are three types: plain taffeta, striped taffeta, and printed taffeta, all of which are traditional Chinese varieties renowned worldwide.

It appears exceptionally flat and firm yet soft. The production process is complex, and the output is not large, so it can only be supplied in limited quantities.

Brocade

It is satin with various patterns woven by a jacquard loom. Brocade with added printing is

very popular in Western Europe. It meets various decorative needs, is beautiful and generous, and has the function of absorbing and releasing gases and regulating indoor temperature.

Plain Satin

It belongs to the conventional fabrics among silk fabrics. The bright satin surface is very elegant, with a smooth feel and a dense structure. This fabric

has a relatively high shrinkage rate, and the luster will also decrease after washing.

Elastic Plain Satin

A new type of fabric, the composition is 90%-95% mulberry silk, 5%-10% spandex, belonging to woven fabrics. Its characteristics are good

elasticity, comfort, relatively low shrinkage rate, and unique style.

Artificial Silk

It is made of polyester filament through special processes and special finishing, and it has a similar appearance, luster, and feel to real silk.

The price is relatively cheap, suitable for the general consumer group.

Silk Blend Fabrics

It can be blended with cotton, linen, wool, chemical fibers, etc. This fabric has both the soft and smooth texture of silk fabrics and

the excellent properties of other materials.

Characteristics

BC 138 In the year, Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions brought the splendid silk of the East to the West, and this westward route also became famous for silk, and was called the "Silk Road". Silk fabrics are soft, smooth, thick, full, and have excellent elasticity. They have good moisture absorption and breathability, but silk fabrics are relatively delicate and should be carefully cared for to avoid heavy friction, twisting, or dragging on rough surfaces, which can damage the protein fibers. Also, silk fabrics are prone to wrinkles and shrinkage, so washing and care must be very cautious.

Polyester

Chinese Name: Polyester                      Type: Synthetic Fiber

Foreign Name: Polyester Other Names: Polyester Fiber

Overview

 

It is an important variety of synthetic fibers, and the trade name of polyester fiber. It has excellent

shape retention properties. After shaping, it forms a flat, fluffy shape, etc., and even after multiple washes,

it remains unchanged. It is inexpensive, durable, elastic, not easily deformed, corrosion

resistant, insulating, crisp, easy to wash and quick-drying, and is loved by people.

Pure Polyester Fabric

It has the advantages of good strength, smooth crispness, and easy washing and quick drying, but it has the disadvantages of hard feel, poor touch, non-soft luster,

poor breathability, and poor moisture absorption.

Polyester Artificial Silk

Made of circular and shaped polyester filaments, it is a polyester fabric with a silk-like style, elegant drape, smooth,

soft, and pleasing to the eye; it also has the characteristics of polyester fabrics such as crispness, wear resistance, easy washing, and wrinkle-free, and is inexpensive.

Polyester Imitation Wool

Made of polyester filament, it has the characteristics of full and fluffy, good elasticity of woolen fabric, and also has the characteristics of polyester's durability,

easy washing and quick drying, flat and crisp, not easy to deform, not easy to pilling.

Polyester Imitation Linen

It is one of the internationally welcomed fabrics, with the dry feel and appearance style of linen fabrics, with a rough appearance and dry feel

Comfortable and cool.

Polyester imitation suede

It is one of the new polyester fabrics, made of fine or ultra-fine polyester fibers as raw materials, and processed by special finishing polyester velvet

The fabric has the characteristics of soft texture, fine and full fluffiness and elasticity, rich feel, and durable style.

Polyester imitation cotton yarn

Polyester imitation cotton fabric has the moisture absorption of cotton, the feel of cotton fabric, anti-pilling, anti-static and other properties, currently in

The moisture regain, anti-pilling, anti-static and fabric feel are comparable to cotton, but the fabric comfort is still inferior to cotton.

Characteristics

1. Good strength, elasticity close to wool, wrinkle resistance exceeds other fibers, fabric does not wrinkle, good dimensional stability, durable, anti

Wrinkle-free and iron-free. 2 High heat resistance and heat insulation, the best among synthetic fibers. 3 Thermoplastic, can be made into pleated structure, and the pleats

Lasting. 4 Abrasion resistance is second only to nylon, better than other natural and synthetic fibers. 5 Corrosion resistance, with strong acid and alkali

Resistance to ultraviolet rays. 6 Poor dyeability, but good color fastness after dyeing, not easy to fade. 7 Poor moisture absorption, and easy

Static electricity, dust, affecting appearance and comfort.

With the continued rapid growth of China's economy and the continuous improvement of domestic residents' consumption capacity, the demand for polyester fibers in China is also increasing.

China has gradually developed into an important processing base for polyester products in the world and has become the country with the largest production of polyester fibers in the world.

Acrylic

Chinese name: Acrylic                            Alias: Synthetic wool

Foreign Name: poyester Advantages: Soft, fluffy feel, bright colors

Overview

It is known as synthetic wool, and its elasticity and fluffiness are similar to natural wool. Therefore, its fabric

The warmth is also comparable to wool fabrics, even higher than similar wool fabrics 15% Dyeing

Bright colors, light resistance is the best among various fiber fabrics. It has good heat resistance, ranking second among synthetic fibers

It is resistant to acids, oxidants and organic solvents, but relatively sensitive to alkalis.

Classification

Acrylic pure imitation fabric: Using 100% Made of fine acrylic fiber. It has stable color, soft and elastic feel, and the texture is neither loose nor rotten, with a full feel.

Acrylic blended fabrics: refers to fabrics blended with wool-type or medium-long acrylic fibers and viscose or polyester. They are thick and dense, strong and durable, with a smooth, soft and durable surface. The disadvantage is that the comfort is poor.

Features: It has the advantages of softness, fluffiness, easy dyeing, bright colors, light resistance, antibacterial, and insect resistance. According to different application requirements, it can be pure spun or blended with natural fibers, and is widely used in custom furniture.

Polyester cotton

Chinese name: Polyester cotton                                     Definition: Polyester and cotton blended fabric

Foreign Name: tc Advantages: Crisp, wrinkle-resistant, easy to wash, quick-drying

Overview

Polyester cotton is a mixture of polyester and cotton, which appeared in China in the 20 Century 60 In the early years,

Because the modified fiber has the characteristics of crispness, smoothness, quick drying, and durability, it is deeply loved by consumers.

The feel is not as comfortable as pure cotton, not as absorbent as pure cotton, the price is low, and it is widely

One of the widely used blended fabrics.

Classification

CVC yarn: refers to cotton content 65% Cotton and polyester blended fabrics above

T/C yarn: cotton content 55/45 Cotton and polyester blended fabrics below

Characteristics

It highlights the style of polyester and the advantages of cotton fabrics. It has good elasticity and wear resistance in both dry and wet conditions, dimensional stability, small shrinkage rate, and the characteristics of crispness, wrinkle resistance, easy washing, and quick drying. It cannot be ironed at high temperature or soaked in boiling water. However, polyester fiber is a hydrophobic fiber, and its affinity for oil stains is very strong, easily adsorbing oil stains, easily generating static electricity and adsorbing dust, difficult to wash, and cannot be ironed at high temperature or soaked in boiling water. Polyester cotton is a synthetic fiber that cannot be degraded.

Gaomi NC Fabric

Chinese Name: Gaomi NC Fabric Other names: Nylon and cotton blended fabric

Foreign Name: NC cloth Advantages: Not easy to wear, soft and comfortable, easy to clean

Overview

A fabric made of nylon and cotton blended or interwoven, with high warp and weft density, generally using

plain weave. It combines the advantages of nylon and cotton yarn.

 

Characteristics

Nylon's wear resistance is the best among natural and chemical fibers. Nylon has good moisture absorption, better comfort and dyeing properties than polyester. Therefore, nylon and cotton blended or interwoven will not reduce the moisture absorption and comfort of cotton yarn. Nylon is lighter, while cotton yarn is heavier. After the two are interwoven or blended, the weight of the fabric can be reduced. Nylon has excellent elasticity, and after blending or interweaving with cotton yarn, it improves the elasticity of the fabric.

Due to the participation of nylon in interweaving or blending, the heat resistance and light resistance of the fabric are poor. During use, attention should be paid to washing and ironing to meet the conditions to avoid damage. Its most significant style characteristics: not easy to wear, soft and comfortable, easy to clean. Do not sun-dry, do not wring dry.

3M waterproof mousse fabric

Chinese Name: 3M Waterproof mousse fabric Other names: High-density fabric woven from microfiber

Foreign Name: 3M cloth Advantages: Soft, smooth, delicate

Overview

This fabric is popular in Europe and America and is widely used in custom furniture. |

Using the latest modern technology, "new synthetic fiber", that is, high-density fabric woven from microfiber.

Feel

The feel is soft and smooth, with countless times more fine fluff than ordinary fabrics, countless times higher surface area and micropores, so the fabric has a great ability to collect dust, remove oil and dirt. This fabric also uses the latest American 3M brand name waterproof glue, after special processing, so that 3M the molecules of the glue are slightly infiltrated into the fibers of the fabric, which has good waterproof performance without affecting the breathability and moisture permeability of the fabric.

Features: The appearance is clean and full, with a micro-velvet feel, but the wrinkles are not visible to the naked eye, the luster is soft and elegant, the feel is soft, smooth and delicate; the touch is warm, the fabric is fluffy and elastic. Dry clean carefully, do not wring dry.