Professional understanding of Textile Production - Four

PROFESSIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF TEXTILE PRODUCTION

Major natural fibre sources

Cotton, Flax, Silk and Wool.

Man-made cellulosic fibre sources

Wool and Bamboo, Cotton plants.

Major synthetic fibre sources

Polyester, Polyamide, Acrylic, stretch fibres.

Best fibre stem fibre (flax linen)

- Nettle, date.

Hemp

- Flax, Wool, Hemp were major until cotton came along.

- 50’s/60s growing was finished it was non-toxic.

Leaves

- Pineapple and bananas (West India) 

Used for interiors, window blinds etc.

Seed hair fibres

- Less commercial.

- Before polyester there was Kupak (stuffing for toys) negative absorbent, good resistant.

Poplar trees (natural) 

- Hard to produce, Germany harvest, used for stuffing for duvets and mattresses.

Coconut (coir) 

- Abrasive, resistant to sea water, used for industrial rope.

Peat Fibre 

- The plant remains in peat (produced in Scandinavia.) 

- Good thermal properties, thermal, UV resistant, natural antiseptic properties, anti-static.

- Clothing, footwear blankets, expensive process.

Alginate (brown seaweed) 

- Natural healing properties (antiseptic) material properties. 

- Non-woven, blended with ie. Tencel which keep it soft, dressing for a wound (pale pink) forms a gel and protects from blood clotting.

- Soluble in hot water.

- Disappearing marks also.

Metal Fibres 

- Aluminium, copper, and steel.

- Butchers wear knitted steel gloves.

- Garment made is silk and steel.

- Skiers, easier to find yourself under snow if you have high metal content.

Paper

- Renewable source pine trees, cotton, rice.

- High strength, light abrasion, recyclable and bio degradable.

Bio-Fibres 

Dextrose from plants can create a fibre with an environmentally affective lifestyle.

Spider silk is one of the biologically engineered fibres. (Strongest fibre known to man) 

V&A Spider Silk – 10 years production.

Milk Casein is another source of viscose type fibre.

Man-made synthetics

Polyethylene, PVC, all forms of synthetics from non-renewable oil-based resources.

All have properties of high strength, can be heatset.