When people buy clothes, underwear and home textiles on a daily basis, they usually pay attention to the fabrics, and pure cotton is often a fabric that everyone prefers. But do you think that the cotton labeled by merchants must be real pure cotton? What types of pure cotton fabrics are there? Now let me give you some knowledge about “cotton”:
1. Why does “cotton” have so many names?
Cotton fiber is the most widely used natural fiber by humans so far. From coats to underwear, from hats to socks, it basically covers all categories of clothing. So why does cotton have so many names? Mainly because the fibers vary in length. Common cotton materials include: long-staple cotton, fine-staple cotton, island cotton and Egyptian cotton.
2. What are the differences between long-staple cotton, fine-staple cotton, island cotton and Egyptian cotton?
1. Fine-staple cotton
Fine-staple cotton has the shortest fibers, no more than 33mm, has average gloss, and is not very resistant to damage
2. Long-staple cotton
Long-staple cotton The fiber length is between 33~45mm, the gloss is very good, and it is more resistant than fine velvet cotton.
3. Egyptian cotton
The fiber length of Egyptian cotton is more than 30mm. The biggest advantage of this kind of cotton is its fine fiber and high strength. Almost all the highest quality home textiles and bedding products on the market currently use Egyptian cotton.
4. Sea Island Cotton
It was born in the West Indies in America. Its fiber length can reach between 3 and 45~64mm. The gloss and softness are quite excellent.
3. Which kind of cotton is the best?
The grades of these types of cotton are: Sea Island Cotton>Egyptian Cotton>Xinjiang Long Staple Cotton>Fine Staple Cotton
The best quality is Sea Island Cotton. Some people think that Sea Island Cotton has better gloss and softness. Sex can even pk silk! In addition, the sea-island cotton’s resistance to fabrication is also the best among cotton fabrics! However, this fabric has a disadvantage – its output is low. It only accounts for about 4% of long-staple cotton, so the price is very expensive! How expensive is it? The price of one meter of sea island cotton fabric reaches more than 2,000 yuan! If you use sea-island cotton to make a shirt, the fabric cost plus design process and marketing expenses will cost at least more than 5,000 yuan for a sea-island cotton shirt!
4. What should you pay attention to when purchasing cotton fabrics?
1. Pay attention to the place of origin.
Since Sea Island cotton, Egyptian cotton and long-staple cotton all belong to the same variety, some merchants will deliberately confuse these two types of cotton. When purchasing, you must check the place of origin. Take long-staple cotton as an example. There is no better long-staple cotton than our Xinjiang!
2. Look for real “pure cotton”.
Some fabrics will be marked with “diamond cotton”, “skin-friendly cotton”, “Lycra cotton” and “mercerized cotton”… etc. Strictly speaking, these various “cottons” are not pure cotton fabrics, but blended or It’s man-made fiber!
The national standard stipulates that words such as “pure”, “complete” and “100%” can be added if there is only one ingredient in the fabric. Therefore, some merchants do not dare to label it directly, so they use product names, such as: “pure 100% cotton”. When we are purchasing, once we see “pure 100% cotton” used, it means that it is no longer pure! Everyone must pay attention when purchasing.
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