Textile fabrics classification
Soft fabrics
Soft fabrics are generally relatively thin, good drape, shape lines smooth, natural stretch clothing outline. Soft fabrics including knitted fabric structure evacuation fabrics and silk fabrics and soft thin linen fabrics. Soft knit fabric often used in linear fashion design concise style reflects the graceful curve of the body; silk, linen and other fabrics are more common in loose and pleated effect modeling, performance fabrics sense of flow lines.
Very cool fabrics
Very cool fabrics clear lines have a sense of volume, can form full of clothing outline. Common with cotton, polyester-cotton fabrics, corduroy, linen and a variety of thick wool and synthetic fabrics, such fabrics can be used to highlight the accuracy of costume design, such as suits, suit design.
Shiny fabrics
The surface is smooth and shiny fabrics that reflects the light, there is a sense of shine. Such fabrics include satin fabric structure. Most commonly used in evening dress or stage performance clothing, and produce a strong dazzling visual effects. Shiny fabrics in dress performances modeling freedom is very broad, can have simple design or a more exaggerated form way.
Thick fabrics
Tinggua thick heavy fabrics, can produce a stable shape effects, including all kinds of thick woolen cloth and quilted fabrics. The fabric has a physical sense of expansion, not too much use pleating and stacking, designed to A-and H-shape is most appropriate.
Transparent fabrics
Transparent fabrics light texture and transparent, with elegant and mysterious artistic effect. Including cotton, silk, chemical fiber fabrics such as georgette, satin silk, chemical fiber lace and so on. In order to express the transparency of the fabric, often full line of natural, varied H-shape design and a round table.
Functional fabrics
Functional fabrics are fabrics with special functions, such as fire retardant, anti-static, anti-acid and so on.