Functional Textile
Functional Textile
- A Story of Functional Textile Part 1A functional textile is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibers often referred to as thread or yarn. Yarn is produced by spinning raw natural fibers, such as wool, linen, cotton, or other material on a spinning wheel to produce long strands. A functional textile is made from many kinds of materials.
What Is The Functional Textile
Functional textiles are formed by weaving, knitting, crocheting, knotting or pressing fibers together. But when it comes to sports and casual clothing, consumers nowadays are not only seeking fashion, but ergonomics, especially comfort and health. It is now a common practice in industrialized countries to announce new functional textiles on a regular basis. A functional textile may include various requirements such like antibacterial, moisture management, flame-retardant, antistatic effect, water repellant, and so on.
The Functional Textile Suppliers
Functional textiles have developed since the past decade, the Taiwan textile industry has become a major supply center of functional textile in the world. Among of those suppliers, particularly worth to mention it is, a functional textile manufacturer, LIBOLON, not only offer the functional fabrics for garment, but also developing a series of functional fabrics for home textiles. Taking the “Blackout fabric” as an instance, how it is amazing to image a fabric that putting around 23,000 ends threads together forming a double-face in warp way and weft yarn inside you cannot find it immediately. This functional textile was weaved with flame-retardant polyester yarn, therefore, when it were applied to window curtain.
