Weaving Terminologies

Chamal Jayasinghe
Fabric
Specification
How to identify a compact
specification of a Woven Fabric
EPI and PPI
EPI means ends per inch and PPI means
picks per inch.
We can use a pic glass ( counting glass )
and easily find this.
 Fabric GSM
GSM of a fabrics Means , it’s weight of one square
meter.
 Commercial Names of fabrics

Commercial names has

Fabric commercial name is
many different faces from
the name used generally
place to place and region
when specifying fabrics.
to region.