The modern textile industry offers consumers huge amount of fabrics. One of the last novelties in this area – wound. It is fabric with high esthetic and technical characteristics, but with the pluses and minuses, requirements to work with it.
In spite of the fact that wound fabric is issued from 30th years of the last century, it became widespread just now. Experts explain it with emergence of new technologies in the textile industry which allowed to accelerate and simplify process of its production considerably. Now wound (modal) - it is available material which is used in versatile areas of human life.
Wound the description of fabric
Wound fabric it is impossible to classify only as natural or as synthetics. According to technical characteristics which are given to material still by the Japanese textile workers in the thirties of the last century, material is a kind of viscose. Initially wound fabric intended for production of house textiles:
- napkins for cleaning,
- cloths,
- curtains and curtains.
Besides, wound widely it was used in the industry, but did not "take root" in this area. There was not enough durability of material for production of technical fabrics, for example, for parachutes.
To sew clothes from wound there began the European fashion designers when it got to Europe in the 60th years of the last century. Now wound it is demanded in the field of fashion, thanks to the advantages – it is not rumpled, rushes a long time, looks perfectly in any style, is easily draped.
The composition of fabric wound
Wound fabric it is considered synthetic substance, but cellulose from natural initial materials – a beech or an eucalyptus is its cornerstone. If to speak about tactile qualities, then it is similar to cotton. It manages to be reached thanks to unique structure:
- natural cellulose from wood,
- chemicals without chlorine content (for raw materials processing),
- extracts from pitches (for increase in hygroscopicity).
By production wound surely the so-called "viscose" press which allows to receive in a short period pure fiber from natural materials is used. An indispensable condition of production – during processing of initial material for production of fabric wound lack of chlorine-containing chemicals.
It is important to note that wound fabric cannot cost not much. And if in outlet place emphasis on the low price of material, means try to sell a fake of poor quality.
Wound properties of fabric
Wound is unilateral and bilateral. The type of material depends on a way of an interlacing of fibers by production of fabric. Unilateral wound, both visually, and to the touch, it is very similar to natural silk. Its surface ideally smooth, without roughnesses, it thin and extraordinary easy.
Bilateral wound reminds a velvet or knitwear – dense, but soft, with a terry surface. This type of fabric can be used for tailoring for winter, spring or fall.
Wound indicators of hygroscopicity of fabric one and a half times above, than at natural cotton. Material perfectly passes air and does not create greenhouse effect at operation of products from it. Besides, wound it is hypoallergenic and it is not electrified, its surface is capable to push away pollution, does not shrink when washing and on it pellets are not formed. It is very light fabric, and even the volume clothes from it seem weightless.
Wound pluses and minuses of fabric
Wound fabric possesses high technical and operational characteristics that allows to sew from it, practically, any models of clothes. Even from wound difficult cut out styles look effectively – material streams, at due processing is easily draped, creates the soft, but resistant invoice.
Of course, as well as at any other textile materials, at fabric wound there are also shortcomings. It is possible to refer the following properties and characteristics to them:
- the elasticity wound below, than at viscose, that is fabric softer,
- in rare instances, in 1 of 1000, fabric causes allergies,
- the high cost caused by features of production.
These shortcomings are, but it is impossible to consider them essential, material has much more advantages – hygroscopicity, ecological purity and safety, durability and resistance to formation of pellets, mechanical damage.
For quite some time now at wound one more advantage appeared – textile workers mastered process of production of yarn of this look, and now it is applied to production of a hosiery. Socks, women's stockings and panty hoses, children's things of this type from modalovy yarn turn out beautiful, strong and rather inexpensive as material is spent for them not so much, as on clothes.
What can be sewed from fabric wound
Wound fabric strongly was fixed in fashion industry and it is actively used by designers for creation of things from clothes collections for any season, both women's, and children's, and men's. Thanks to the fact that it is easily painted from it models of the most courageous shades and flowers, including pearl, natural tone, a metallic are created. Wound it is possible "to meet" on displays of collections both young designers, and masters of fashion industry:
- Paco Rabanne,
- Yudashkin,
- Givenchy,
- Karina Kino,
- Cardin,
- Jean Gaultier and at others.
From fabric wound things for basic clothes, office, dresses and suits for solemn occasions are created. But it is important to understand, as there are these models almost 10 times more, than from other materials. The reasons of so high price a little – production of the material, design work and features of a cut, tailoring from wound.
The principle of a cut and sewing from fabric wound is similar to the principle of processing of synthetic materials, for example, of viscose. But, unlike viscose, wound does not shrink in use and washings of products from it, that is before a cut material does not need water and further thermal treatment.
Experts recommend when cutting details of clothes from wound to leave an additional allowance for an exception of risk of damage of seams at fall of fibers in operating time. Smooth fibers easily separate from structure of material, and edges of details need to be processed overloky as soon as possible, is optimum – before connection of their boundaries by. To the standard allowances for seams it is recommended to add couple more of millimeters – it will be enough for processing.
Special care wound fabric does not demand, governed cleaning and operation are similar to those that move forward for jersey and viscose – washing at low temperatures, an extraction in the sparing mode, drying in the straightened look, the iron accurate, at the minimum temperature indicators.