Denim fabric: type and manufacturing process

What is fabric?
The word "textile" comes from the Latin "texere", which means "weave". It originally referred to fabrics made of woven fibers. Today, the term "textile" includes fabrics produced by felting, weaving, knitting and knotting fibers. It also refers to man-made fabrics that can be produced by other methods.

How is the fabric made?
Most fabrics are made of fibers. Fibers are just thin threads of various materials. Some fibers are natural. They come from plants such as cotton or flax, cocoons of silkworms, leaves of pineapple plants, or from animals such as sheep or even camels. Before using natural fibers to make fabrics, they must be harvested and cleaned. Manufacture other fibers. These include nylon, polyester and rayon, as well as other branded fibers.

What is Jeans?
Denim is more than just a cotton fabric; it has inspired strong opinions in the hearts of historians, designers, teenagers, movie stars, journalists, and writers. Today's textile and clothing historians can find near-enthusiastic interest, especially in the debate about the true origins of denim. In 1969, an American fabric magazine writer declared: "Denim is one of the oldest fabrics in the world, but it is always young."

Denim fashion:
The durability of denim is attributed to weaving, which is called twill weave. Twill weave fabric has strong abrasion resistance, which means that the fabric absorbs a lot of friction before it breaks. The reason for this durability is the way the yarns are woven together: one group of yarns periodically floats on the other 2-4 groups of yarns to form a diagonally textured fabric surface. It is these yarn "floats" that absorb wear. When the floating yarn is worn away, there are more yarns below to hold the fabric together.

Notable features:
The characteristics of the diagonal pattern: the diagonal pattern can move to the upper right (right diagonal pattern) or the upper left (left diagonal pattern) diagonal direction along the diagonal direction. All will function as denim fabrics, but the width and angle of the diagonal will change: the more yarns floating, and the shallower the diagonal direction, the more obvious the diagonal. The fewer floating yarns and the steeper the diagonal direction, the less obvious the diagonal.

Indigo (deep navy) warp yarn and light-colored weft yarn: The surface float yarn is always indigo blue, showing a twill texture, and the light-colored yarn below is exposed after being worn. Denim is never a color. This fabric is called "drill" or "bull Denim".

Cotton fiber is most commonly used in the production of denim: however, hemp fiber is more suitable for denim fabrics because of its higher strength, lighter weight, better water absorption and faster drying time. Denim made from hemp fiber uses less water and energy in production and care. Now hemp has a new cottonification method, so the feel of hemp fiber is almost the same as that of cotton.
Resin treatment: All denim is treated with resin before leaving the textile factory. This resin that makes the fabric very hard will eventually be washed off.