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HOW TO CHOOSE COTTON FABRICS

HOW TO CHOOSE COTTON FABRICS

Nothing is worse than spotting the *cutest fabric ever* at a fabric shop and when you go to grab it from the shelf it feels similar to sandpaper. Ewwwwww...cheap cotton!

 So today we want to talk to you about how to choose cotton fabrics by teaching you how to differentiate between high and low quality cottons. If you have been sewing for awhile, this probably isn't going to teach you too much because at a certain point, you learn to tell whether a fabric has a "good hand" just by touching it. Thankfully, for beginner seamstresses, there are other ways to determine the quality of a cotton and we're going to teach you how now!

The very first thing you should do is look at the label on the bolt of fabric. It is almost always labeled on the very top. It should say "100% Cotton" or something similar. If it is a blend of any kind it may be harder to work with and will probably be harder to wash.

After determining that the fabric is, in fact, 100% cotton, you want to confirm that it is a thick sturdy cotton--particularly, if you plan on sewing children's clothing! You can do this by holding it up to the light. You do NOT want to be able to see much light coming through. It may help to hold a couple fabrics up to the light to compare. If you can make out objects, than the fabric is definitely too thin.

These are the two main "tests" I used to do before I could tell whether a fabric was good enough to use just by just feeling it. There is however another way I read about online, that involves looking closely at the threads that make the fabric. If the threads vary in size and there are irregular gaps (these gaps will be minuscule mind you, not noticeable holes in the fabric) then you are likely dealing with a low-quality fabric.

If you do these steps and still are unable to determine whether or not the fabric is high-quality, I recommend either seeing who made the fabric and whether or not it is a name you recognize as a designer fabric or just asking the opinions of other people there. If there is one thing I know about crafters, its that we LOVE to talk! lol. I have met some very interesting people at my local fabric shops and most people are more than willing to share their knowledge with you.

If you don't have any fabric shops near you and are stuck buying your fabrics online, I suggest sticking with the designer fabrics. It really is the only way to know that you are getting quality fabrics without seeing them in person to decide for yourself..

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Types of Cotton Fabric

Cotton is a natural fiber that's fundamental to the textile industry because it is so versatile. It is absorbent, resistant to high temperatures and can be dyed easily. Different manufacturing methods can alter the appearance and texture of the fabric.

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Types of Cotton Fabric

• Harvested cotton fiber is taken to mills, spun into yarn and made ready for fabric manufacturing. Cotton fabric comes in three types: knitted, woven and nonwoven.-

Woven Cotton

• A loom and shuttle weave yarn into a piece of fabric. Yarn that is strung vertically on the loom is the warp. The yarn that passes in and out horizontally using the shuttle is the weft. Machines mimic this action to produce large sheets of fabric in a short period.

Types of Weave

• Cotton weaves come in three types: plain, twill and satin.

  Plain weave fabric is made by taking the weft and threading it over and under each warp. Gingham and chambray are produced that way.

  Twill weave is made by weaving the yarns to form a raised, diagonal pattern. This fabric is strong and sturdy. Denim, gabardine and herringbone are produced that way.

  Satin weave is made using less yarn, leaving only the warp or the weft to stand out on one side of the fabric. The fabric is smooth, with a shiny surface on one side and a matte surface on the other like cotton sateen.

Knitted Cotton

• Knitted cotton is made by machines with needles that grasp the yarn to create a series of stitches that form the fabric. Cotton fabric made using this method is soft and stretchable and is used for T-shirts.

  Non-Woven Cotton

• Non-woven cotton fabric such as felt is created using chemicals or heat to hold the fibers together. This method is used to create cotton pads, bandages, diapers and filters.

HISTROY ABOUT COTTON

No one knows exactly how old cotton is. Scientists searching caves in Mexico found bits of cotton bolls and pieces of cotton cloth that proved to be at least 7,000 years old. They also found that the cotton itself was much like that grown in America today.


In the Indus River Valley in Pakistan, cotton was being grown, spun and woven into cloth 3,000 years BC. At about the same time, natives of Egypt’s Nile valley were making and wearing cotton clothing.


Arab merchants brought cotton cloth to Europe about 800 A.D. When Columbus discovered America in 1492, he found cotton growing in the Bahama Islands. By 1500, cotton was known generally throughout the world.


Cotton seed are believed to have been planted in Florida in 1556 and in Virginia in 1607. By 1616, colonists were growing cotton along the James River in Virginia.


Cotton was first spun by machinery in England in 1730. The industrial revolution in England and the invention of the cotton gin in the U.S. paved the way for the important place cotton holds in the world today.


Eli Whitney, a native of Massachusetts, secured a patent on the cotton gin in 1793, though patent office records indicate that the first cotton gin may have been built by a machinist named Noah Homes two years before Whitney’s patent was filed. The gin, short for engine, could do the work 10 times faster than by hand.


The gin made it possible to supply large quantities of cotton fiber to the fast-growing textile industry. Within 10 years, the value of the U.S. cotton crop rose from $150,000 to more than $8 million

Model of Indian cotton gin

For the first two thousand years after people started to grow cotton in India, they just picked the seeds out by hand before they began to spin the cotton into thread. About 500 BC, cotton growers in India invented a machine with gears to turn rollers to get the seeds out of the cotton more quickly and easily.

Over time, people improved this machine, so that it could be run first by foot pedals and then by water power, using the current of a fast stream to turn the rollers.

Eli Whitney's cotton gin

When white people first began to grow cotton in North America in the 1600s AD, they brought over the cotton churka from India to help them get the seeds out. In the 1700s AD, people in the southern part of North America began to grow more and morecotton. Along the Atlantic coast, they could grow long-staple cotton, with long fibers that would work in the Indian cotton churka. But when people began to grow cotton further from the ocean, they found that the long-staple cotton didn't grow well there. They found a new short-staple kind of cotton, and grew that. But the old churkas wouldn't take the seeds out of this new short-staple cotton.

Cotton farmers forced African people to work as slaves and pick the cotton seeds out by hand. Mostly they made them do it in the evenings, after they'd already worked all day in the fields picking the cotton. This was too slow, and it made cotton very expensive - so expensive that nobody wanted to make clothes out of it.

This was a big problem, and a lot of people began to work on inventing a new kind of churka that would get the seeds out of short-staple cotton. Finally in 1793, just after the Revolutionary War, a young white man named Eli Whitney did invent a cotton gin that worked. It was a lot like the old churka, but it had steel teeth that caught the cotton fibers, and a system of pulleys to pull harder.

Cotton farmers all used the new cotton gin, and cotton clothing got so cheap that many people began to wear cotton instead of linen. Clothes got a lot cheaper, so that for the first time in history most people had more than one outfit to wear. The bad part was that in order to plant and pick so much cotton, the cotton farmers brought over thousands and thousands more African people to be their slavesand work in the cotton fields. Most of the African people who came to North America as slaves came because of the cotton gin.

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