fashion.md

• what is fabric to begin with?

  • fabric refers to textiles, they are mostly incherchangable
    • textile refers to any material made of interlacing fibres
    • fabric refers to a material made through weaving, knitting, spreading, crocheting, or bonding that may be used in the production of further goods
    • cloth refers to fabric that has been processed
  • fabric basically is the base physical material of garments / cloth to make clothes

• what kind of fabrics are there?

  • gingham / vichy
    • a medium-weight balanced plain-woven fabric made from dyed cotton or cotton-blend yarn, usually in checkered pattern

• what kind of weaves are there?

  • dobby
    • a weaving style produced by using a dobby loom, characterized by small geometric patterns and extra texture in the cloth
  • pique / marcella
    • a weaving style normally used with cotton yarn, characterized by raised parallel cords or geometric designs in the fabric, it is a dobby construction
  • oxford
    • a weaving style with a basketweave structure, multiple weft threads are crossed over an equal number of warp threads, often one color of weft is crossed with a white warp thread giving it a two tone appearance

• what kind of of print patterns are there?

  • polka dot
    • a pattern consisting of an array of large filled circles of the same size

• what is a pique shirt?

  • a kind of fabric usually for casual wear
  • can refer to either a woven of a knit fabric
  • characterized by having a visual texture
  • most often seen in polo's