What are Fabrics?
How are Fabrics made?
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The first one is called "Massing", massing fibre together creates fabric directly from fibre, without the need for first producing yarns. This requires an understanding of a fibre's characteristics and what will hold fibres together to form two-dimensional surface. The fibre can be shrunk melted or tangled together.
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Second, is "Weaving". Weaving requires yarn production first. The strength of the yarns and their texture are important determining features for the woven fabric.
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The third one is "Knitting" and it requires yarn production. Yarn's can be less strong than for weaving, allowing for wide variety in yarn type for greater texture in knitted fabric.
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The last one, believe it or not, is 3D Printing. Yes, now, we can 3D print fabrics, but it's not quite like we imagined it to be, we can't print from cotton fibres or something like this. Instead, tiny links, like very small chain-mail, may be an emerging method for producing fabric and garment simultaneously.

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Cleaning & Bleaching ( preparing for colour). This scoured and bleached fabric is called "prepare for dyeing" (PFD) or "prepared for printing" (PFP). The fabric is used for sewn garments that are later dyed a specific colour. (ex. our AW21 Collection has been dyed specific colours)
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Adding colour and images directly into the fabric, these processes are called " dyeing and printing "
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Adding aesthetics or functional finishes, these are the final details of a specific fabric a designer wants.
Now the fabric is pretty much done, it can be shipped off to sales agencies or sold directly to a designer to work his magic on it. But, let's say that, you are a well known designer, and have envisioned a very specific garment that can only be constructed using a very specific fabric that you cannot find anywhere... so, what can you do? The answer is simple, make your own custom fabric. I first want to mention that *just the answer is simple, the production process itself, it's a nightmare.
The custom or sample fabric production process time is approximately five to eight months from fibre to final finishes. New sample fabrics that are prepared for the new season can be also prepared faster, but bulk production time for garment production will take approx. one to two months from the greige (raw) goods, or three to four months from yarn production to final finishing.
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Sea Island Cotton from the Caribbean:
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Supima Cotton from the United States:
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Egyptian ELS Cotton from Egypt
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Breathable
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Sweat-Absorbent
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Soft
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Stretchy
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Insulating
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Hypo-allergenic
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Strong
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Versatile
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Shrinks
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Wrinkles
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Easily Damaged
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Color Bleed when washing