In the hot summer, the beautiful ladies put on beautiful flowing dresses. Both chiffon and hemp yarns are often used in women’s clothing fabrics, and they are also familiar to most female consumers. So what kind of fabric are hemp yarn and chiffon? What is the difference between the two?
Linen yarn
Hemp yarn is a light cotton fabric with thin strips in the longitudinal direction of the cloth. Most of it is woven with pure cotton yarn, but it is also woven with cotton and linen blended yarn. There are polyester/cotton, polyester/linen, and polyester/cotton blended hemp yarns. Hemp yarn gets its name because it is as cool as hemp. It is one of the main varieties of spring and summer clothes, and it is cool and breathable.
Linen yarn is bleached, dyed, printed, jacquard, yarn-dyed, etc. It is suitable for men’s and women’s shirts and children’s underwear, including skirt fabrics, handkerchiefs and decorative fabrics. According to the organizational structure, hemp yarn can be divided into ordinary hemp yarn and fancy hemp yarn. Ordinary hemp yarn generally adopts weft heavy flat weave, warp yarn is 18-13, and the weft density is 10% to 15% higher than the warp density, so that the warp direction of the cloth has obvious straight stripes. The fancy linen yarn is woven by using the change of fabric structure, or using different numbers of warp yarns and varying warp yarn arrangements. Varieties such as varying linen yarn, wicker linen yarn, and different warp yarn are available.
In recent years, a new hemp yarn called nano hemp yarn has been released, which is a new type of hemp yarn fabric, which is made of hemp yarn fabric with nano technology. Compared with the conventional ramie chiffon, it has better pulling endurance, not easy to pull silk, not easy to penetrate the meat, and has a unique coolness, natural feel and softness. It also has a certain waterproof performance.
Chiffon
Chiffon is a light and transparent fabric, originally a silk fabric woven with strong twists and wefts. Chiffon has a light, thin and transparent texture, a soft and elastic feel, a light and elegant appearance, good air permeability and drape, and is elegant and comfortable to wear. The lightness, weight, thickness, thinness, transparency and crepe effect of silk surface. It is generally applied to skirts or bottoming shirts worn by ladies in summer.
Chiffon is a yarn (not spun) product in silk products. Its name comes from the transliteration of Chiffon in English, which means a light and transparent fabric with the characteristics of lightness, transparency, softness, and elegance. In recent years, due to the rapid development of chemical fiber technology, the original “silk” has been gradually replaced by “chemical fiber”.
Generally speaking, the artificial silk chiffon is made of 100% polyester (chemical fiber), and the texture is light, thin, soft, natural drape feels good, and skin-friendly. However, because the artificial silk chiffon is purified fiber, it is not easy to decolor after washing many times. It is not afraid of exposure to the sun, it is easy to take care of (machine washable), and it has better firmness. The composition of the silk chiffon fabric is 100% mulberry silk, the texture is light and transparent, elegant, comfortable to wear, cool and breathable, and strong moisture absorption, which is not achieved by the artificial silk chiffon. But the silk chiffon fabric also has some shortcomings, such as: it will become gray and light after washing too much, it can not be exposed to the sun (it will turn yellow), it is difficult to care (need to be washed by hand), and the firmness is not good (easy to stretch the yarn, easy to pull at the seam) break).
