Textile

Textile

Nowadays, when you walk into shops, there are so many type of clothes for you to buy. When people buy clothes, the design comes first, the fabric comes second. Clothes are made out of several textile such as wool, silk, linen, cotton, leather, etc.

Textile industry is always popular. It creates more than 300,000 jobs all over the world. There are so many materials used to make fabulous clothes to response the customers’ different need. Each brand offers different textile.

 First, we will with begin with wool. Wool fabric is made from the fleece of sheep. As we know the popular brand that is used wool to make clothes is Chanel. The signature of the brand is the tweed fabric. Tweed is a type of wool weave that is designed for weather resistance.

Second, silk fabric is made from the silkworm, which is the caterpillar of the silk moth Bombyx mori (Science name). It feeds only on the leaves of mulberry trees. The popular brand which uses silk to make clothes is Jim Thompson (Thailand’s best known high-quality silk brand).

Third, Linen fabric is made from the cellulose fibers that grow inside of the stalks of the flax plant. It has glossy bluish-green leaves and pale blue flowers, though on rare occasions, the flowers bloom red. We usually use linen to be lining:

Forth, Cotton fabric is made from cotton (typically planted in the autumn and harvested in the late spring in climates where the summers are long, hot and arid). There are many varieties of cotton, but some of the most popular for manufacturing are the Gossypium arboreum L. (fai daeng) and Gossypium barbadense L. (fai chan, fai dok, fait het, fai samli, fai luang, and samli). The popular cotton brand is H&M.

The last textile is leather, leather can be made from the hide of almost any animal including pigs, sheep, goats and crocodiles. However, the most common hide used is that from a cow and the high quality expensive leather is calfskin leather-the hide of young cattle. The popular leather brand is Balenciaga.