Casual Fabrics: Mercerized Cloth

According to the two mercerizing process, mercerized cotton can be used to refer to cotton yarn treated by yarn mercerizing, or mercerized by mercerization.

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Classification of mercerized cotton.

Yarn mercerization refers to cotton yarns which are treated with concentrated caustic soda under tension and have a special cotton yarn with both original cotton characteristics and silk luster.

Fabric mercerization: refers to the cotton fabric under tension, after strong caustic soda treatment, so that the fabric gloss is better, more compact, better preservation.

The manufacturing process of mercerized cotton.

The whole process of commonly known as double mercerized fabrics is: cotton spinning, combing, yarn singeing, yarn mercerization to yarn dyeing, fixing, softening, and then forming mercerized cotton yarn, then forming yarn dyed knitted fabric to fabric dyed (if the previous yarn is not dyed) to fabric silk to fabric preshrinking, stereotyping, forming double mercerized cotton fabric, and cutting cloth to make clothes.

Generally speaking, the main process of pure cotton fabric is cotton spinning, weaving and dyeing.

Raw materials.

The raw materials of cotton with mercerized cotton are relatively high grade. The regular varieties of 60S/2 to 120S/3 mercerized cotton are usually made of Xinjiang long staple cotton, American PIMA cotton and Egyptian long staple cotton as the raw materials, and the best of them is Egyptian long staple cotton.

Mercerized cotton, because of its high-grade cotton raw materials and high-grade dyes and other accessories, and a series of strict processing procedures, its products can be described as the best in cotton, which not only retains the natural advantages of cotton soft comfort, moisture absorption and breathability, but also has many unique advantages:

Advantage of mercerized cotton.

Advantages of mercerized cotton yarn: 1, yarn strength increases, not easy to fracture; 2, gloss increases, the general brightness; 3, dyeing performance is improved, bright color, not easy to fade; 4, yarn breaking depth decreases with the increase of tension, that is not easy to elongate and change.

Advantages of mercerized cotton fabric: 1, bright color of fabric, long wash and no color change; 2, fabric has general luster of silk fabric; 3, fabric size is relatively stable, hanging feeling is good; 4, fabric is crisp, wrinkle resistant performance is good, it is not easy to pilling and wrinkling.

Main uses.

The cost of mercerized cotton products is high, so the general mercerized cotton knitted fabrics are made of high-grade POLO shirts, T-Shirts, shirts and business socks.

The best quality mercerized cotton products are combed singe and double mercerized mercerized cotton made from high count long staple cotton. Consumers should pay attention to distinguish mercerized cotton products made only of fabric mercerized or made of low count cotton.