Fiber Talk

How will you know the quality of your fabric?

Fabric is a generic term used for the material made from yarn, a continuous strand of textile fibers or filaments (natural and synthetic), used to make clothes, accessories and home furnishings. It...

DIY - Laundry Starch & Fabric stiffener recipes for clothes

DIY - Laundry Starch & Fabric stiffener recipes for clothesNice-smelling clothes put you in a very good mood. What if you had it neatly ironed and stiff at the edges? Starching makes you feel w...

Fabrics from Oranges – interesting and exciting

Textile fibres could be from natural and synthetic materials. Natural fibres generally known could be animal or plant fibres such as silk, mohair, cashmere, cotton, jute, hemp, flax, coir etc. whil...

Cross Stitch form of embroidery – artistry through thread work on fabrics

Considered one of the oldest forms of stitches in embroidery, yet fairly intriguing in execution, the cross stitch form of embroidery has always been popular for the manner in which images surface ...

Color fastness – why it is so important for fabrics

Color fastness can be defined in two ways. One, it is the ability to keep the original dye color under the influence of various external factors in the normal use of dyed textiles. Another way of p...

3D Printing – a revolutionary method in designing fabrics

A fabric is made attractive mostly by the designs that appear on it and the creation of designs through printing is one of the easiest ways of doing it. Printing on a fabric or garment is an essent...

Getting to know Yarn Basics

IntroAs per the English Dictionary: Yarn has been defined as ‘a continuous strand of twisted threads of natural or synthetic fibres, such as wool or nylon, used in weaving or knitting’. Fibre or Th...

INDIAN DYES AND DYEING INDUSTRY DURING 18-19TH CENTURY

India has been a home of dyes since a very long time. And as early as 2300-1750 BC, evidence being formed in the form of a piece of cotton dyed with madder – a vegetable dye having been found in th...

Would you prefer to wear linen or hemp?

When one looks at a fabric made of linen and a fabric made of hemp, it is highly doubtful that they can be clearly distinguished as which is which by an average person. In fact the fibers of hemp r...

Organic & Eco friendly fabrics – 10 best materials for the environment conscious

In recent times, more so in the past couple of decades, environment pollution has generated sufficient heat and raised enough dust to grab the entire world’s attention. The focus since, has been to...