Do You Know How to Distinguish the Types of Lace?
Dec 27, 2022
Decorative lace fabrics refer to ribbon-like fabrics with decorative patterns. In practical application, it is also a decorative belt and a drawn yarn product. It is mainly used for trimming and hemming of decorative fabrics such as clothing, shoes and hats, towels, pillowcases, curtains, tablecloths, sofas, covers, and tea set covers.
1. Woven lace
Woven decorative lace refers to lace in which the warp and weft are vertically interwoven through the jacquard mechanism of the loom. Woven lace is usually made of cotton thread, real silk, nylon thread, rayon, gold and silver thread, polyester thread, and eyeglass thread, and is woven on a shuttle or non-shuttle loom using plain, twill, satin, and dobby. Dyed weaving process. Multiple strips can be woven at the same time, or single-width can be woven and cut by electric heat. Braided stretch lace is typically cut in widths between 3 and 170 mm. The common types are pure cotton lace, silk yarn interwoven lace, nylon lace fabric, cotton nylon interwoven lace and cotton acrylic interwoven lace. Woven lace has the characteristics of tight texture, bright color, artistic sense and smoothness, etc. It is suitable for trimming of various clothing and other cloth products.
2. Knitted lace
Knitted lace fabric is woven on a warp knitting machine. It uses nylon yarn, polyester yarn and viscose rayon as raw materials. Its manufacturing process is that latch needles use warp yarns to form loops, yarn guide rods control warp knitting patterns, and eyelet laces are formed after shaping. The bottom weave usually uses a hexagonal net, which is woven separately. After the gray cloth is bleached and shaped, it is divided into strips, and the width of the strips is generally more than 10mm. It can also be dyed into various color stripes and squares, and there is no pattern on the lace. Rice knitted lace is characterized by dense, light, thin, reticulated, transparent, and mild color, but it is easy to deform after washing. It is mainly used as the edge of clothing, hats, and tablecloths.
3. Knotted lace
Knotted lace refers to lace made by knitting. There are mechanical weaving and hand weaving. Machine weaving mainly uses bleached cotton and colored yarns as warp yarns, and cotton yarns, rayon, and gold and silver yarns as weft yarns. Usually, plain weave, warp and weft are interwoven into various colors. Knotting lace means that the more spindles, the larger the pattern and the wider the lace. The width of lace varies from 10-60mm. The lace is generally monochromatic, and the shape is mainly a strip-shaped edge. The shape of the lace changes with the size and curvature of the mouth and the distance. Waste products are mostly porous, loose in texture, and the types are limited.
The above are three kinds of flower lace that are common in the market. We can distinguish these three kinds of lace according to the characteristics of lace. Chaoyang lace fabric is a professional manufacturer of embroidered lace fabric, with advanced production equipment and considerate service. No matter what kind of lace you want to buy, Rising Sun Lace Fabric can provide you with machine embroidery lace binding to your satisfaction.
