Fancy yarns, with their flexible colors and changeable yarn structures, express unique decorative effects on clothing and clothing.
What is fancy yarn?
Fancy yarn refers to yarn with special structure and appearance effect obtained by using special raw materials, special equipment or special technology to process fibers or yarns during the spinning and thread-making processes. It is a decorative yarn product. A kind of yarn that works.
The structure of fancy yarn
There are ever-changing varieties of fancy yarns, which are generally composed of core yarns, decorative yarns and consolidation yarns.
The core thread is the skeleton of the fancy thread and the attachment of the decorative thread.
Generally, filaments or yarns with higher strength are used as the yarn core.
The fixing thread acts as a reinforcement and is used to fix the pattern so that the pattern is fixed in the way it was produced to avoid slipping along the length direction. Most of the solid threads are made of thin and high-strength filaments.
Decorative threads reflect the fancy effect. The fancy yarn patterns, such as thick details, circles, braids, etc., are all expressed through decorative threads.
Decorative threads can be produced from cotton slivers or rovings with the same draft but different overfeeds (such as loop yarns), or with different drafts (such as slub yarns). They can also be produced from filaments with different overfeeds. To produce (such as knotted yarn).
Using two rovings of different colors with different drafts and different overfeeds, fancy yarns with varying thicknesses and colors can be produced.
Classification of fancy yarns
According to the color and structural form of fancy yarn, it can be divided into 3 categories.
Colored threads refer to yarns in which colored fibers are mixed into the fibers of the base yarn in a certain proportion, so that the yarn appears with bright colored segments and colored dots of different lengths and sizes, such as colored dotted threads, rainbow threads, etc. This yarn is mostly used in women's clothing and men's jackets.
Fancy yarn is a yarn with various appearance characteristics obtained by using the overfeeding principle, such as loop yarn, slub yarn, spiral yarn, knotted yarn, etc. Fabrics woven from this type of yarn feel fluffy, soft, have good warmth retention, and have a unique appearance and strong three-dimensional effect. They can be used as both clothing fabrics and decorative materials, and can be used for both light and heavy summer clothing. winter clothing.
Special fancy threads mainly refer to gold and silver threads, chenille threads, etc. Filigree mainly refers to gold and silver threads obtained by sandwiching aluminum sheets between polyester film sheets or attaching them to polyester films. It can be used both on fabrics and as decorative sewing thread to make the fabric surface shiny and bright. Chenille yarn is a special fancy yarn that holds fibers on a plied core yarn, shaped like a bottle brush. It feels soft and is widely used in flocking fabrics and tassel fabrics.
Advantages of fancy yarns
·Fancy yarn fabrics have a gorgeous appearance, colorful patterns, bright but not vulgar, and are highly decorative, which can catch the attention of consumers at the first time.
·Fancy yarn fabrics are diversified and personalized products that satisfy the consumer psychology of modern urbanites pursuing fashion and individuality.
·Fancy yarn fabrics are easy to design, because changes in yarn form directly affect the appearance of the fabric. Therefore, just by improving the selected yarn, you can present diversified changes in the fabric, which is casual and original.
·The production of fancy yarn fabrics requires little or no post-processing such as printing and dyeing. The process is short, the production is simple, and the product sales are also very good, so it is very popular among manufacturers.
Fancy yarns can be produced in various patterns and matched with various colors to obtain novel and unique appearance effects.
Due to its special structure, the raw materials of fancy yarns are also more flexible. They can use natural fibers or chemical fibers, various raw materials can be used alone or mixed with multiple components, so as to achieve both The purpose is to learn from each other's strengths and make full use of their inherent characteristics.
At the same time, because fancy yarns have great potential in color selection and style changes, the design and development of their products are basically in a state of free play without technical constraints, which brings unlimited possibilities to the application of fancy yarns. Vitality and challenges provide a broad platform for the development of fancy yarn fabrics.
Since multiple colors and shapes are randomly combined in the same yarn, when used in fabrics, fancy yarns change the shortcomings of stripes and spots on the surface of the fabric, and make the fabric look rich and three-dimensional. powerful. Fancy yarns can be used to process various yarn-dyed tweeds, tweeds and other clothing fabrics, as well as decorative materials, such as various hand-knitted wool, curtains and furniture and other decorative fabrics. The fabrics have prominent patterns and unique styles.
Fancy yarns are not only widely used in knitting, but also have made great progress in the use of woven fabrics, and the home textile industry has developed most rapidly.