Fibres Flashcards
What fabrics are vegetable fibres (cellulosic)
Cotton and flax
What fabric/fibres are protein (animal) fibres
Silk and wool
What are the two types of cotton?
American and Egyptian
Describe naturally coloured cotton
Doesn’t need dyeing
Finer/shorter and weaker than white
Rubbish quality in comparison to white
Doesn’t last the process
Explain organic cotton
Grown without the use of any synthetically compounded chemicals
Soil is extremely important
Weather is also important
Staple fibre length of flax
100-1000mm
Products from flax include;
Linen fabric, linen sheets and linen clothes
What is done to ensure flax products are grown tall and straight
Grown very close together
How long does it take to grow flax
100 days
What are the properties of crystalline
Strength
Stiffness
Polymer chairs run parallel together
In accessible to dyes
Properties of amorphus regions
Flexibility
Dyeability
Are are the two regions are in fibre structures
Crystalline and amorphus
What percentage of amorphus and crystalline is in a cotton structure
30% A
70% C
Is there more or less crystalline in flax fibre than cotton
More
How much A and C is in a wool structure
75% A
25% C
