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“Better Things for Better Living…Through Chemistry” ~ DuPont Slogan, 1935-1982 Dupont News About Nylon Advertisement, 1948; Image courtesy of X-Ray Delta One on Flickr.com
When DuPont introduced nylon in the form of hosiery to the world in the late 1930s, American women embraced “the synthetics.” Today, synthetic fibers–such . . . → Read More: Are Synthetic Fibers Petroleum Guzzlers? I don’t know about your local JoAnn’s Fabric store but mine has two rows of fabric devoted to “special occasion” fabric. The satins, taffetas, and brocades that are made into prom, party, and bridesmaids dresses are almost universally made from one fiber: Acetate. We’ll find out why it is such a popular fiber for special . . . → Read More: Acetate: The Top Choice for Bridesmaids and Prom Dresses The World Over In our last textile lessons, I’ve been discussing the explosive history of rayon and what we need to know about sewing with rayon. Today we will discuss lyocell, which the United States Federal Trade Commission classifies as a subcategory of rayon. History Lyocell, also known by its trade name Tencel, was developed to try and . . . → Read More: Rayon and Lyocell: Separated At Birth Dear Friends, In my last Textile Tuesday lesson, I shared the explosive history of artificial silk, commonly referred to today as either rayon or the trade name Modal. Today, we’re going to look at what we need to know about sewing with rayon so that we can take advantage of its benefits while avoiding its . . . → Read More: Sewing With Rayon: What We Need to Know One of my very favorite fabrics to use is rayon. I love the feel and drape of it. On the Sewing Circle email list, I would smugly talk about how I only use natural fabrics such as cotton, silk, and rayon. The only problem is that I found out a couple of years ago that . . . → Read More: What Do Artificial Silk and Bombs Have In Common? Dear Friends, Lyocell Cellulose Filter Before I took the textiles class in the fashion program, I thought fabrics were either natural or synthetic. I discovered that synthetic fibers were actually a subcategory of manufactured fibers. Manufactured fibers can be either regenerative or synthetic. Manufactured Fiber (also known as “Man Made”): Any fiber that is . . . → Read More: Textile Tuesday: Manufactured Fibers Are Not Necessarily Synthetic The future of silk: A textile made entirely of spider silk. Image courtesy of the American Natural History Museum. On August 4, 2010, I said that we would continue our lesson the next week on silk. Well, apparently, it has been a very long week. Our previous lessons explored the history of silk, the . . . → Read More: There Is Nothing Like A Really Good Scroop Dear Friends, Image courtesy of gd-wholesale.dom (texindex.com.cn shown in the corner is in Chinese) In my couture class, we had to choose a fabric and then describe the characteristics of it and strategies for how to sew it. Our professor gave us the template to complete so that the information would be uniform. On . . . → Read More: My Fabric Information Assignment Before Mrs. Poteet set us free to run down to the garment district to buy our fabric and supplies, she told us that we need to preshrink the wool, rayon lining, interfacing, edge tape, weft, etc. Confession: I knew I needed to pretreat fabrics I intended to wash at home but I never realized that . . . → Read More: Tailoring Homework: Preshrink the Fabrics Photo courtesy of aliexpress.com I don’t know about you, but I was totally confused by the terminology the first time I bought silk from an online store. Some places use the abbreviation “mm” and other places use “ply” to describe their silk. What does this all mean in English, please?! Momme (abbreviated as “mm” . . . → Read More: Return of the Momme |
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