TextileUpdate

Gwendolyn Hustvedt

TextileUpdate

A daily Education, Arts, Fashion and Beauty podcast

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Gwendolyn Hustvedt

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Gwendolyn Hustvedt

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I start a new season of the podcast with each new session of my Textiles course.
Water, stains, we can repel them all! Radiation, Fire, no problem!
Changing the properties of textiles is the goal of functional finishing.
Besides Luster and Hand, we can change the Design or Texture of fabrics.
Aesthetic finishes are used to change the look or feel of fabric by changing the luster or the hand.
Routine finishes include bleaching, ironing and tentering.
Printing and dyeing can have some quality issues that it is helpful to understand.
Direct printing also includes screen printing and inkjet printing while indirect printing solves a problem we have since the invention of synthetic polymers.
The methods used for printing have developed over time.
We can dye at different stages during the production process. We can use dyes to make designs in a process called “resist printing”.
How do we improve the affinity of dyes for fibers?
We give color to textiles using dyes and pigments.
We don’t need to use fibers to make nonyarn fabrics, we can just use polymers in solution or look to nature.
The nonyarn fabrics usually have fairly descriptive names.
We can make fabrics without using yarns.
Weft and warp knits don’t have warp or weft yarns, but they do go in different directions. The warp knits include tricot and raschel knits.
The weft knits include jersey, rib and purl knits.
Knits are far newer than wovens and borrow vocabulary from wovens.
Double cloths can use 3, 4 or 5 yarns instead of the usual two. Textured weaves, on the other hand, stick to familiar methods to create a subtle pebbly surface.
Pile weaves can be made in so many ways and produce so many fabrics, including velvet, velveteen and corduroy. Plus, let’s dig into carpet!
The Jacquard Weave is pretty fancy, while the Leno weave is pretty dull looking.
The Dobby weave was very popular for several hundred years and remains a great choice for interiors.
The basket weave, twill weave and satin weave are three other types of basic weaves, although the basket weave is actually a plain weave too.
The Basic Weaves start with plain weaves but this is the most diverse category of weaves, despite the plain wrapper.
What sort of properties are built into fabric during weaving and how can we identify them to help us differentiate fabric?
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