Up Close With Woven Fabrics, Part I
Welcome to another edition of Sewing Science! Today I am taking a very close look at some different types of non-stretch, cotton woven fabrics: canvas, corduroy, cotton flannel, and cotton muslin. First up, cotton canvas. This is a 12 oz. Carhartt canvas that I recently purchased from Califabrics.com. Canvas on the left 56x You can see the very dense weave. 95x Here is a close up of the individual fibers. This week we're looking at natural cotton fibers, but in the future we'll look at synthetics, and you will be able to see the difference in the fibers at very high magnifications. 2290x 7790x As seen in the thread , natural fibers have a lot more texture, they are 'rougher' than synthetics. Next up - corduroy!! I have some awesome 8-wale corduroy from Califabrics that I've made into men's pants and shorts (because nothing says shorts weather like some fat wale corduroy). Corduroy, center and right (on edge) If you read Thr...