Lesson 1

WOMEN'S BLOUSE

Description of a style
Bright blue viscose blouse with small shoulder padding detail and concealed button fastening down the centre front.

Cloth construction 
The blouse is made from crepe georgette. Crepe yarn fabrics are made from highly twisted yarns. The fabric is light and soft with an irregular and finely textured surface and sandy handle.
Full crepe is made with crepe yarns in both directions. The yarn arrangement in a full crepe is two yarns with S-twist and two with Z-twist in both warp and weft directions.

Weave structure
Plain weave. This is the simplest and tightest method of interlacing warp and weft.

Composition
Blouse is made from 100% viscose.
Viscose is a man-made fibre made from natural cellulosic polymers.


Clothing comfort

Thermal insulation 
Viscose filament yarns are made into smooth textiles with a low volumes of trapped air. However the fibre has only a small influence on isolation.

Moisture absorption 
Viscose is very absorbent, in normal conditions it can absorb from 11 -14% of water vapour.

Next to skin comfort
Viscose is fine, soft and comfortable to wear.  


Strength 
Viscose fibres have a low dry and wet strength and therefore brakes easy.

Elasticity/creasing 
Viscose has a poor resilience and therefore wrinkle easily.

Collaboration 
Viscose is an excellent substrates for dyeing and printing. Colours are very bright.

Easy care treatment 
Without synthetic resins viscose fabrics are prone to shrinkage.

Applications 
Filament viscose can beside blouses be used for shirts, dresses, drapes, lingerie, ribbons and trimmings.

Printing 
The material was printed with direct printing on a rotary screen printing machine.

Weight of the fabric
100 g/m2

Width of the fabric
135/140 cm.