Articles of category "Worsted fabrics"

Many different sorts of yarn are represented in modern textile market. There are types of yarn for sewing and making clothes, and there is also yarn that is used in knitting. One will be making worsteds generally from the long lustrous varieties of wool; the fibers are so combed as to bring them as far as possible parallel to each other. And techniques of dyeing and gilling worsteds are also available for the home use today.

Worsteds in most cases are made of wool fibers but other fiber can be used as well. These fibers are twisted into hard yarn which is also called worsted. Then fabricis weaved with this yarn are used for making worsteds different techniques of weaving, and the most usual are serge, gabardine and whipcord. And worsted is used not only for clothing, like flannel, worsted shirt, for example, but differnt rugs can be also made of it.