Uses of Dobby Weave

A good example of dobby weave is stripes or waffle cloth but the designs need to be straight vertically or horizontally.
Heavyweight dobby fabrics are used as home furnishings and for heavy apparel.

Dobby Fabrics and textiles

Brocade
Moss Crepe
Matelasse

What is Dobby Weave

Dobby weave is a patterned fabric like jacquard weave but the patterns are smaller. Dobby Weave produces an allover figured fabrics. The figures are bird's eye, small diamonds with a dot at the center, or smaller geometric patterns. The construction of the Dobby weave is very complex and the design is repeated frequently.

Dobby weave is created on dobby machines. The machine selectively raises some warp threads and selectively depresses others with the help of a dobby card. Dobbies vary in weight or compactness. It ranges from very fine to coarse and fluffy yarns. The standard dobbies are generally flat and relatively fine or sheer.

Rib Weave Fabrics

Bayadere
Broadcloth
Cord fabric
Faille
Ottoman
Poplin
Shantung
Taffeta

Properties of Rib Weave

Rib weave has a substantially higher number of yarns per inch only in one direction. Several yarns are grouped together to form one. The resulting fabrics of rib weave are abrasion resistant and have tear strength.

Rib Weave Fabric

Rib weave is a basic weave pattern which is characterized by prominent ribs in the weft. In this type of weave, the warp yarns and the filling yarns are of different widths.

Usually the filling yarns are fatter than the warp yarns. Rib Weave Creates a series of horizontal ribs.

Uses of Jacquard Weave

Jacquard weave is used for upholstery and drapery materials like brocades, brocatelles, tapestries, and matelasses.

Jacquard Weave Fabrics

Brocade
Brocatelle
Matelasse
Satin Faconne - Jacquard figured fabric with an all-satin weave background.

Jacquard Weave Properties

The fabrics have the tendency to have floats.

It has luster contrasts.

It has snagging potential.

What is Jacquard Weave

Jacquard weave is used to produce patterned fabrics. The intricate patterns or figures are created all over the fabrics. It is woven on a jacquard loom. Jacquard loom differs with standard looms. It has a jacquard attachment or a punch card. In jacquard loom, the warp yarns is individually controlled and not in groups. This allows creating more complex designs.

Jacquard weave was invented by a French named Joseph Marie Jacquired. Fabrics of jacquard weave are costly because it involves more time and skill in making the Jacquard cards to produce new pattern. Moreover the weaving operation is also very slow.

What is Basket Weave

Basket weave is a variation of the plain weave. In this, two or more than two warps yarns cross alternately side-by-side with two or more than two filling yarns. This type of weave resembles a plaited basket.

In basket weave the fabrics have a loose construction and a flat appearance. The weave is more pliable and stronger than a plain weave but it is not as stable. It is less smooth but have a pleasant texture surface.

Basket Weave Fabric
Basket weave is typically used in composites industry. It is also used as outerwear, monk's cloth and drapery fabrics

Fabrics with Twill Weave

• Bayadere

• Brocade - The pattern may be satin on a twill ground or twill on a satin ground.

• Brocatelle - Satin or twill pattern on plain or satin ground.

• Covert cloth

• Drill

• Duchess - twill on back.

• Foulard

• Gabardine

Characteristics of Twill Weave

• Twill Weave has fewer interlacing than plain weave.

• Twill Weave is durable and heavier.

• Twill Weave is wrinkle resistant.

• Twill Weave is resistant to showing soil and soiling.

• The twill direction is defined as left or right hand or variation.

• Twill Weave is more raveling than plain weave.

• Twill Weave is more pliable drape and hand than plain weave.

Fabrics with Satin Weave

Brocade

The pattern may be satin on a twill ground or twill on a satin ground.

Brocatelle

Satin or twill pattern on plain or satin ground

Camocas

It had a satin base and was diapered like fine linen.

Characteristics of Satin Weave

• Satin Weave is flat and lustrous with a smooth surface.

• Satin Weave surface slides easily for linings.

• Satin Weave long floats like 7/1 or 11/1 and filament fabrics are subject to snagging and is poor resistant to abrasion.

• Satin Weave shorter floats like 4/1 or ¼ and spun fabrics may be tough, compact and durable with low luster.

Characteristics of Plain Weave

• Plain Weave is snag resistant.

• Plain Weave wrinkles.

• Plain Weave lower tear strength.

What is Plain Weave

Plain weave is a basic style of weaves, which have the weft and warp threads interwined in an alternate way to produce a checkerboard effect. It is also known as one-up-one-down weave or over and under pattern. Plain weave is the simplest and most common interlacing of warp and weft. In this, the warp and weft are of equal tension and spacing and it is equally visible on the surface.

Double Knit | Double Knit Fabric

Double knit is a circular knit fabric, which has loops on both sides, front as well as back. Double knit is made with a double set of needles to create a double thickness of fabric. Each thickness of the Double knit fabric is joined by interlocking stitches. An article of double knit is a two faced clothe. Either side can be utilized as the right side.

Double knit fabrics a type of fabric originated in Milan and Florence. Double knit fabric is constructed on multi-feed circular knitting machines. The two layers of loops formed is not possible to separate. The Double knit fabric is very sturdily constructed and is heavier in weight. Double knit fabric controls the shrinkage and dry-cleans well.
Types of Double a Knit

• Cotton Double Knit

• Wool Double Knit

Cotton, wool, worsted, silk, rayon and synthetics are favourable for double knit.

Uses of Double Knit

• Pants

• Skirts

• Tunics

• Jackets

• Scarfs

• Hats

• Doublets

• Bandages (the single knit curls)

Uncut Pile | Loop Pile

Uncut pile, also known as loop pile or rounded loops, is a finish of the fabric without cutting the yarns. The Fabrics with uncut pile is very strong because the loops of the yarn run continuously from face of the carpet through its back. Added backing helps to strengthen it further. The regularity or irregularity of the loops, the height and texture of the yarn is determined by the surface and texture of the uncut pile. The strongest carpet is made with uncut pile weave.

Uncut pile has clear detail in design. It is soft, beautiful and hugs the floor better. It has more longevity than other carpet weaves. Hand towels, bath towels, extra large and beach towels are uncut piles for greater wear of the fabric.

Loop Pile Fabric

• Terry Cloth

• Terry Velour - A pile weave cotton fabric with an uncut pile on one side and a cut pile on the reverse side.

• Moquette - A warp-pile upholstery fabric. The pile may be either cut or uncut, or patterned with cut and uncut pile.

• French Terry - A knitted fabric that is smooth on one side and has an uncut loop pile on the underside. Not quite as heavy as Fleece.

• Frise - Made usually with uncut loops in all-over pattern.

• Cisele Velvet - A velvet with a pattern formed by contrast in cut and uncut loops

Cut Pile

Cut pile is a carpet fabric. In this type of weave the face of the carpet is composed of cut ends of pile yarn. The tops of the loops are cut in an uniform length. Cut Pile is one of the most popular constructions for carpets. Cut Pile is durable but the durability depends upon the type of fiber, density of the tufts and the amount of twist in the yarn.

The cut pile is always twisted so that the shape is maintained uniformly. The tighter the twist is, the less bulky is the carpet, which does not show the footprints. Looser twisting creates a luxurious look and feel but it does not hold its shape well.

Cut Pile Fabric

• Cisele Velvet

• Velvet Satin

• Velour - Heavier than velvet.

• Saxony - This is a dense cut pile where the yarns are treated to make each tuft end distinguishable at the surface.

Oxford Weave

Oxford weave fabric consists of two, thin warp yarns woven to every soft, thicker yarn in the filling direction. The unbalanced construction of the fabric causes the thin yarns to break and leave tiny holes. Oxford Weave is fine, soft and lightweight. Oxford weave is commonly found in cotton shirting but is also available in a wide variety of fibers and weights. It is mainly used in apparel.
Characteristics of Oxford Weave

• It is fine.

• It is soft.

• It is lightweight. 

Uses of Oxford Weave

The primary use of oxford weave fabric is in cotton shirting. It is also used in other forms of apparel.

Leno Weave

What is Leno Weave / Leno Weaving
Leno weave has two or more warp threads crossing over each other and interlacing with one or more than one filling threads. A leno weave fabric is very sheer and durable with no yarn slippage. It is stronger and firmer permitting the passage of both light and air through it.
Leno weave fabric is also called as gauze or doup weave. The fabric was primarily used to prevent shifting of fibers in the open weave fabrics. It maintains uniformity of threads and minimises the distortion of threads.
  
Characteristics of Leno Weave

• It has open-weave effect.

• It has low yarn count.

• It is a good dimensional stability.

• It has lesser yarn slippage.

 Uses of Leno Weave

• Grinding wheel reinforcement

• Light-weight membrane

• Laminating fabrics

• Merquisette

Dobby Weave

What is Dobby Weave / What is Dobby
Dobby weave is a patterned fabric like jacquard weave but the patterns are smaller. Dobby Weave produces an allover figured fabrics. The figures are bird's eye, small diamonds with a dot at the center, or smaller geometric patterns. The construction of the Dobby weave is very complex and the design is repeated frequently.

Dobby weave is created on dobby machines. The machine selectively raises some warp threads and selectively depresses others with the help of a dobby card. Dobbies vary in weight or compactness. It ranges from very fine to coarse and fluffy yarns. The standard dobbies are generally flat and relatively fine or sheer.
  
Uses of Dobby Weave

• A good example of dobby weave is stripes or waffle cloth but the designs need to be straight vertically or horizontally.

• Heavyweight dobby fabrics are used as home furnishings and for heavy apparel.