Woven fabric types pdf

Any fabric made by weaving yarn is called a woven fabric. As the name ‘woven’ itself indicates, this type of fabric uses two or more yarns to interweave or interlace at right angles to one another.

The vertical yarns that run along the length of the fabric are called the warp and the horizontal yarns are called the weft or filling yarns.

How is Woven fabric made?

Woven fabrics are made on a loom, handloom, or power loom.

The loom is a device used to hold the warp yarns under tension so that the weft threads can be interweaved. The yarns can be natural like cotton, wool, or synthetic like nylon, polyester.

The warp thread is kept in a spool and the filling thread (weft thread) is kept on a shuttle/bobbin.The warp thread is kept under tension on the loom and the filling thread is woven through the warp threads, perpendicular to the direction of the warp threads, going over and under them in different patterns, from one selvedge to the other; these threads are interlaced to make the fabric.

The warp threads are stronger than the weft threads. 

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