Types of Woven Fabrics

1. Buckram Fabric

It is a stiff coated fabric made from a lightweight

loosely woven fabric, impregnated with adhesives and fillers. This fabric is used as
interfacing so as to provide support and shape retention to necklines, collars, belts,
cuffs, waistbands, button closures etc in garments. They are also used as
reinforcements for handbags and other articles.

2. Cambric Fabric

Cambric a lightweight fabric woven in plain weave

and produced with a stiff finish. It is suitable for women’s dresses and children’s
dresses that require crispness.

3. Casement Fabric
 Casement is a medium weight cotton fabric made of
closely packed thick warp yarns. Generally, it is used for curtains, table linen,
upholstery and rarely used for dresses.

4. Cheese Cloth

It is a popular lightweight sheer fabric having an open

weave. It has a low count fabric consisting of carded yarns. Originally it was used
for wrapping cheese or meat and hence the name. It is neither strong nor durable. It
is finished in a variety of ways that attract the consumer. It is used not only for
women’s and children’s dresses but also for drapery fabrics. Due to its open
structure, it does not require much ironing.

5. Chiffon Fabric

Chiffon fabrics are sheer, lightweight fabrics made of

hard twisted yarns. Originally these are made in silk fabrics but today they are made
from rayon or polyester. They are used for sarees and women’s evening wear. The
fabrics encounter the problem of shrinkage.
6. Chintz Fabric

Chintz is a medium weight, plain woven cotton yarn.

It is often given a glazed finish which may be temporary or semi-permanent glazed
chintz are available in solid colour as well as printed with floral prints. These are
often made from blends of cotton and polyester or rayon. They are used for skits,
dresses, blouses, pyjamas, aprons, and draperies.

7. Corduroy Fabric

It is a cut pile fabric available in solid colours. The

cut pile fibres are seen in the form of ribs on the surface. It is mainly used for pants,
jeans, and shirts.

8. Crepe Fabric

A silk fabric is originally characterized by a crinkle,

puckered surface formed by highly twisted yarns in the warp or weft or both. By
using ordinary yarns similar crepe effects can also be produced. Synthetic fabrics
also impart crepe effect finish. It is used for sarees, shirts, women and children’s
dresses.
9. Denim Fabric

It was traditionally a yarn dyed, warp-faced cotton

twill fabric. Warp is usually coloured (mostly blue, maroon, green and brown) and
weft is white. This fabric is made of two weights for sportswear and overalls. Its use
as jeans has made it very popular and so the nature of denim is also changed to suit
the trend. It is often napped, printed and made with stretch yarn.

10. Drill Fabric

It is a warp-faced twill woven fabric. It has a stiff

finish. Originally it was produced in white and now it is available in solid colours. It
is mainly used for pants, knickers, and uniforms.

11. Flannel Fabric

Flannel is a woollen fabric woven in plain or twill

weave having the characteristic soft handle. It looks like a bulky fabric due to the
milling that is usually done to this fabric. Flannel fabric is used for suits and pants
and infant’s clothing.
 This fabric is popular as cleaning fabric due to its extreme softness. This is also used
to protect children from the cold atmosphere.

12. Gabardine Fabric

Gabardine is a closely woven, clear finished warp-

faced twill fabric. It contains a number of warp yarns than weft yearns and also
more durable. It is usually woven in 2/1 or 2/2 twill and has a raised diagonal twill
effect on the right side. It largely used for raincoats, suitings, and sportswear.

13. Georgette Fabric

Georgette is a sheer lightweight fabric, woven in

plain weave. It has a characteristic rough texture produced by hard twisted ply,
yarns both in warp and weft. Originally it was made in silk, but today it is produced
in rayon and polyester too. It’s mainly suitable for women’s evening wear.

14. Kashmir Silk Fabric

Kashmir silk is a silk fabric produced in plain weave

and is either embroidered or printed. The motifs used are characteristic of Kashmir.
 It is used for shirts, women’s wear and sarees. Kashmir shawls are woven in twill
weave and are usually embroidered with traditional Kashmiri embroidery.

15. Khadi Fabric

Khadi is a term used for a wide variety of fabrics that

are hand spun and hand woven. They are produced in mainly one cotton fibre,
blends of two or more fibres. They are known for durability and simplicity. The
fabrics can be suitings dhoties overalls and household textiles.

16. Lawn Fabric

The lawn is a fine sheet, lightweight, crisp fabric

either made of cotton or linen. Various finishes are given to this fabric, in which the
fabric is called by the name of the finish. It is mainly used as lining in a dress.

17. Mulmul Fabric

It is an Indian term generally applied to fine cotton

fabric slightly heavier, than muslin. These are often printed fabrics. They find use as
sarees.
18. Muslin Fabric

Muslin is a lightweight open cloth of plain weave. It

may be used as grey or bleached and dyed. It is used as household textiles and dress
materials. The name is derived from the city of Mosul where the fabric was first
made.

It is a very light and open tabby (plain) weave fabric used for summer dresses and
utility use. At first, the cloth was not always plain but could also have silk and gold
thread woven into it. As the ability to spin yarns of greater fineness developed
cotton was used more readily than silk. In this muslin, the motif weaves in and out
of the cloth, as if it has been embroidered. In the Madras net, the motif is
predominately woven on the surface.

19. Poplin Fabric

Poplin is a medium weight, the cotton fabric having a

fine weft rib. it is generally used for shirting, dresses, and upholstery.

20. Sheeting Fabric

 These are primarily used for bed coverings. They are
medium weight, closely woven fabrics woven either in plain or twin weave.
Sheeting fabrics are made in different widths. High-quality cotton sheetings are
made in plain weave with a width of 64″ x 58″ and in a twill weave with a width of
60″x72″.

21. Taffeta Fabric

Taffeta is a smooth, crisp, transparent fabric having a

fine rib. Originally it is made with silk fibres but now it is also made of rayon. It has
a characteristic finish which produces crispness. It is used as women’s evening
wear.

22. Tissue Fabric

It is a fine fabric either made of silk or man-made

fibre. They are characteristically interwoven with gold or silver threads. It is
produced in rich colours and they are used as women’s dress material, sarees etc.

23. Velvet Fabric

 It is a warp cut pile fabric, originally made from silk.
It is also produced in Rayon. The dense cut pile makes it very soft and lustrous. It is
used as dress materials for women and children. It is also produced with special high
twisted yarns which are single or ply yarns. Based on the yarns used and twist given,
they are named as semi violes (single yarns1x1) full voiles. (ply yarns 2×2) or half
voile (double in warp and single in weft 2×1).

24. Mousseline Fabric

A term used to denote very fine clear fabrics, finer

than muslins. Made of silk, wool or cotton, the weave structure is either (plain)
tabby or two and one twill. In the 18th century, the British term referred to a fine
cloth with a cotton warp and a worsted weft. In France, from the late 18th century
onwards mousseline-delaines were made of very fine wool which was printed in
beautiful designs. This fabric
proved very popular for fashionable as dress and shawl fabrics. The mousseline
cloth is so fine and transparent it is often found backed with another cloth of either a
satin or taffeta silk.

25. Organdie / Organza Fabric

 Originally it is a lawn fabric which is given a stiff
finish. Acid is used for this finish to make the fabric transparent and stiff. It is
mainly used for women’s wear.

A thin light fabric in a (plain) tabby weave which, if organza, has a very stiff crisp
finish; and for organdie, the finish is lighter or there is no finish, and thus the cloth
is more pliable. The structure of the cloth always has more warps than wefts per
inch, and the weft threads are finer than the warp threads. Illustrated is a colourful
group of organza fabrics.

26. Leno Fabric

A fabric in which an open effect is created by causing

certain thread ends or doup threads to cross over. Two threads or ends act as one
thread; when a weft thread passes between them, the doup ends twist catching the
weft and holding it tightly in place. Very fancy and beautiful clothes can be
produced by combining the cross weaving, with other weave structures.

27. Aertex Fabric

 A trade name for a cloth patented in Britain in
1886, which was first manufactured in 1888. The cloth traps air in between its
structure, keeping the body cool in summer, and warm in winter. Two threads or
ends act as one thread; when a weft thread passes between them, the doup ends
twist catching the weft and holding it tightly in place. Very fancy and beautiful
clothes can be produced by combining the cross weaving with other weave
structures.

28. Madras Muslin Net Fabric

Madras net is used mainly for furnishing such as

curtaining. The cloth is an open gauze ground cloth where an extra weft is inserted
to produce a motif, this is then woven into the ground cloth. Where there is a surplus
floating weft yarn this is then cut away after weaving revealing the motif, the edge
of the sheared motif shows shorn ends of a weft yarn.

29. Aida cloth Fabric

 Aida cloth is a cotton fabric with a natural mesh
pattern generally used for cross-stitch embroidery. The open, even-weave Aida
fabrics’ natural stiffness enables the fabric the embroiders choice.
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