Fabric Knowledge: How To Identify Chiffon

Thin and breathable chiffon skirt

First, let's talk about the concept of chiffon, Chiffon Also called georgette (from France), georgette crepe is a kind of silk fabric woven with strong twist crepe warp and crepe weft. Warp yarn and weft yarn adopt two kinds of grab yarns with different twist directions, S twist and Z twist, which are arranged alternately according to ZS and 2Z, interlaced by plain weave, and the warp and weft density of the fabric is very small.

After scouring, the plain silk will shrink and wrinkle due to the untwist effect of the silk yarn, forming a georgette with uniform wrinkles and loose structure. According to the raw materials used, they can be divided into real silk chiffon, artificial chiffon and polyester silk chiffon. The same chiffon fabric, the fabric woven from different raw materials is also very different. The texture and feel are very different, so the price difference is also very large.

Chiffon fabric is soft, thin and transparent, smooth and elastic in hand, light and clean in appearance, with good permeability and drapability. It is very comfortable and elegant to wear; The poor chiffon fabric feels stiff, and it is not very comfortable on the skin. The lightness, weight, thickness, thinness, transparency and crepe effect of georgette yarn mainly depend on the thickness, doubling number, twist and warp and weft density of silk yarn.

Because of its elegant, smooth and transparent characteristics, chiffon is not only used to make women's clothes, but also used to make headdresses, handicrafts, household accessories, etc. The light and thin fabrics bring incomparable beautiful effects, full of romantic flavor.