DENIM

French serge Nîmes

Farmers wearing denim jeans in the

Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis 1930’s
Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis
Supplied miners with denim pants that were made from strong material
and reinforced with rivets at the places where pants tended to tear which
prolonged life of pants
Denim is a study cotton warp-faced textile in Traditionally Blue denim is warp faced cotton
which the weft passes under two or more warp fabric with 3 X 1 twill construction with warp
threads. This will weaving produces a diagonal being dyed in a solid color and weft left un-dyed
ribbing that distinguishes it from cotton duck
Elastomeric Slub yarn is That has been A heavy 7,9,12 count of
yarn is used in used in warp printed with a weight denim yarn is used
weft or weft pattern a batik weave (14oz.
Plus)
Lower count and coarse yarn is used for denim making.
Fiber quality is not good. Denim yarn produced from open end
spinning system. Probably the most important characteristics of
the sliver is its cleanliness with particular care to be given to
dust remove.
In ring spun yarn, a high incident of nep in the yarn will cause
uneven dye uptake during the warp yarn preparation. It is
observed that modern blow room line create neps.
Up to an increase of 100% over neps in raw cotton that will
still allow the carding machine to be able to remove
most of these objectionable faults.

Coarse count yarn in denim refers to less than 8s Ne

and fine count is 9s to 16s. Mixing requirements for
rope dyed warp open end yarns are higher.
 Indigo back
beam dyeing
and sizing
According to this process dyeing and sizing is
done in two stages. In the 1st stage, back
Continuous beams are dyed, oxidized, dried and wound
on a batch roll. The batch roll is then sized,
indigo dyeing dried and wound on a weaver’s beam.

Continuous indigo and sizing

During this process, back beams are
processed on the dyeing and sizing
rope dyeing and machine instead of ropes. The warp are
dyed, oxidized, dried and sized at a

sizing
The yarn which we get from ring frame is wound
once.

into cheeses or cones and then placed on the

ball warper on which 350-400 threads are formed
into a rope. During this process, 12-24 ropes are
dyed at a time based on the size of the rope
dyeing plant.
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Enzy
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 Sales

Rest of the world

31% • Total Number of denim jeans sold worldwide annually 1,240,000,000.

North America
Size of GLOBAL DENIM MARKET by sales $56200000000
39%

• Global Denim fabric production in meter 24000000000

• Over 70% of denim production is in Asian Countries

Japan And Korea

10%

Western Europe
20%

North America Western Europe Japan And Korea Rest of the world
The Largest exporter The third largest Total denim products
of denim Production exporter of denim
export was worth of
to Europe with as products in The US
with 14.20% market €1.30 billon, in 2017
27% market share
share
 Year Value of export (in billion)
Bangladesh denim export to the US 2014 $0.939
and EU is rising significantly and denim 2015 $1.17
export to the US has been increased 2016 $1.29
more than that of EU. 2017 $1.30

Year Value of export (in million)

2014 $426.44
2015 $439.86
2016 $463.61
2017 $507.92