I believe everyone is familiar with pure cotton fabrics, right? As you know, pure cotton fabric, also known as pure cotton fabric, is a fabric produced by spinning cotton as raw material, commonly known as environmentally friendly fabric. It not only has the advantages of moisture absorption and heat resistance, but also has strong alkali resistance. It is also hygienic, so it is very popular among the public. So much so that when making customized work clothes, many companies choose to use pure cotton fabrics instead of polyester-cotton fabrics. But are pure cotton fabrics really better than polyester-cotton fabrics? Let me subvert your worldview today!
Everyone must be familiar with pure cotton fabrics, so I won’t introduce them too much here. Next, let’s take a complete look at polyester-cotton fabrics.
Polyester-cotton refers to the general term for blended fabrics of polyester and cotton. It is made of 65%-67% polyester and 33%-35% cotton blended yarns. It is commonly known as cotton. Because it is a blend of polyester and cotton, the ground cotton fabric has the style of polyester and the advantages of cotton fabric. It has good elasticity and wear resistance in both dry and wet conditions, stable dimensions, low shrinkage, and is tall and straight, not easy to wrinkle, easy to wash, and quick to dry. However, like pure cotton fabrics, it cannot be ironed and dried at high temperatures. Soak in boiling water.
Everything has two sides, there are advantages and disadvantages. Because the polyester fiber in polyester cotton is a hydrophobic fiber, it has a strong affinity for oil stains and easily absorbs oil stains. It also easily generates static electricity during wearing and absorbs dust. It is difficult to wash and cannot be ironed at high temperatures or soaked in boiling water. Polyester cotton is a synthetic fiber and cannot be degraded. If you are likely to come into contact with oil during work, try not to choose cotton fabrics to customize your work clothes.
What types of polyester and cotton fabrics are there? Customers who often buy work clothes know that the fabrics of many work clothes are labeled polyester-cotton or cotton-polyester. “Polyester cotton” and “cotton polyester”, when the order of the two words is changed, they become two different fabrics. “Polyester-cotton” fabric means that the composition of polyester is more than 60% and the composition of cotton is less than 40%; “cotton-polyester” is just the opposite, it means that the composition of cotton is more than 60% and the composition of polyester is less than 40%; it contains cotton Those with a weight of more than 65% are what we usually call CVC fabrics. So, which fabric is better, “polyester-cotton” or “cotton-polyester”? This depends on the customer’s preferences and actual needs. In other words, if you want a work clothes fabric to have more polyester properties, choose “polyester-cotton”; if you want cotton to have more properties, choose “cotton-polyester”.
Whether it is polyester-cotton or cotton-polyester, it is a mixture of polyester and cotton. It is not as comfortable as cotton and is not as sweat-absorbent as cotton. Polyester is the largest variety of synthetic fibers with the highest output. Polyester has multiple trade names, and “polyester” is the trade name in my country. The chemical name is polyethylene terephthalate, which is usually polymerized by chemicals, so the scientific name often contains “poly”. Polyester is also called polyester. Structure and performance: The structural shape is determined by the spinneret hole. The cross-section of conventional polyester is circular without a middle cavity. By changing the cross-sectional shape of the fiber, special-shaped fibers can be produced. Improve brightness and saturation power. The fiber macromolecules have high crystallinity and high orientation, so the fiber has high strength (20 times that of viscose fiber) and good wear resistance. It has good elasticity, is not easy to wrinkle, has good shape retention, good light and heat resistance, quick-drying and no ironing after washing, and has good wearability after washing.
Polyester-cotton blended fabric is a variety developed in my country in the early 1960s. The fiber is crisp, smooth, quick-drying, and durable, and is deeply loved by consumers. At present, blended fabrics have developed from the original ratio of 65% polyester to 35% cotton to blended fabrics with various ratios such as 65:35, 55:45, 50:50, 20:80, etc. The purpose is to adapt to different levels of consumer demand.
After having a more comprehensive understanding of polyester-cotton fabrics, do you still think that custom-made work clothes made of pure cotton fabrics are the best? Of course, we cannot deny the many advantages of pure cotton, but not all industries and types of work are suitable for using pure cotton fabrics to make work clothes. If outdoor workers wear pure cotton work clothes, whether they are black, red, blue, or green, if they are exposed to the sun, they will fall off in a few days, and you will not be able to tell what color you bought. Nothing can be generalized. This truth is also obvious in our lives. Similarly, what kind of fabric to wear for work should also be determined according to the actual situation. It is not that the editor introduced polyester and cotton today, so is it an all-purpose fabric for work clothes? Of course not, everyone must know this. Okay, that’s all about polyester and cotton today!