Thursday, January 3, 2013

HOME TEXTILES - A REVIEW-1

 COURTESY:Shivendra Parmar and Tanveer Malik, FIBRE2FASHION.

ROLE OF FABRICS IN INTERIOR FURNISHING

A fabric plays an important role for home textiles like:
• Fabric protects interior colour from fading and furnishing from deterioration from sunlight.
• It protects from sun glare and it lends protection from night blackness at evening and
from too early sun in the morning.
• Fabrics lends privacy to any degree that is needed
• It shields people from draughts or heat and reduces heat loss in winter.
• It can make summer room cooler and reduce an air conditioning load in the summer.
• Fabric increases liveability and work ability of a small place, reduce noise, make music
and even speech richer and more resonant of all acoustic materials, and sound
engineers find no material that is equal.

PROPERTIES REQUIRED
Fabrics used for home textiles must have properties such as,
• Good light fastness.
• Good resistance to seam slippage.
• Good resistance to pilling.
• Good resistance to snagging
• Stain repellency.
• Good fastness to sponging.
• Flame retardency.
• Appearance retention.

DIFFERENT FIBERS USED FOR HOME TEXTILES
Apart from the natural fibers, which are being used very much in the home textiles like
cotton, silk, wool, linen, etc. and some more of the man made fibers are also being very much
used now a day, that includes polyester, rayon, nylon, polypropylene, Teflon, recron, acrylic, etc.
Recently some modern fibers are introduced in the market are being used for the home textiles
now a days such as.
Sendura :- Sendura is a polyester filament specialty yarn for drapery fabrics. Its striking
fabric surface and dull, silky luster is enhanced by the harmony of colours and attractive printed
designs, mostly in floral motifs. The handle of sendura fabric resembles that of washable silk and
the drape, depending on the fabric construction, is light to compact, but still supple-like heavy
high-grade silk.
Varie :- The Varie yarn family comes in counts of between 150 and 405 dtex. Heavier
types of drapery fabrics are made from Varie 405 dtex, while 240 dtex is used is used in lighter
drapery fabrics, including transparent styles, in weight classes around 110 g/m2.
Lintex :- The yarns of the Lintex family have a natural character with a pronounced linen
and a fine texture. Fabrics made of or with Lintex have a fine, rustic, somewhat straw-like texture
with a grainy and dry handle. Owing to its structure, Lintex is ideally suited to bringing vitality to
the background of printed drapery fabrics.
Crinkle :- A combination of texture and luster in curtain nets and drapery can be obtained
with Diolen crinkle, its special yarn structure creating a lively fabrics surface. Crinkle is still mainly
used for raschal curtain nets as patterning thread in fall-plate curtains. Against a dull, textured
background, the crinkles produce a finely dispersed, structuring luster.


AREAS OF APPLICATION
Home textiles includes following applications such as.
• Textiles for seating.
• Window textiles.
• Bed textiles.
• Textiles for wall coverings.
• Bathroom textiles.
• Accessories.
• Table textiles.