As returning to nature has become a trend, using natural and original things has gradually become a trend. Taking clothing and home textiles as examples, more and more people are beginning to fall in love with hemp fabrics. Hemp is harmless to the human body and is the earliest natural plant fiber used by humans.
However, in life, few people can distinguish between flax, ramie, cotton and linen, etc. It is also difficult to understand why the prices of linen-related clothing and home textile products are so high, let alone the authenticity of natural linen materials. shoddy. Today, the editor will scan this blind spot for everyone.
1. What is the charm of hemp?
Natural hemp fiber is obtained naturally and comes in many varieties, but its classification is very simple. It can be divided into two major categories based on the part of the fiber. One type is made from the bast on the stems of hemp plants, such as ramie, flax, jute, etc.; the other type is made from the leaves of hemp plants, such as burnt hemp, sisal, etc. Ramie and flax are commonly used in textiles.
Hemp fiber has advantages that other fibers cannot match: fast thermal conductivity, coolness and stiffness, not close to the body when sweating, light texture, high strength, soft and generous tones, rough, and good moisture absorption and dispersion. Breathable feature. With the development of various pre-processing and post-processing technologies, some of its natural defects, such as poor elasticity, wrinkle resistance and wear resistance, have been greatly improved.
Hemp fiber has always been one of the important textile fibers in my country and enjoys a high reputation in the world. Research shows that among many textile fibers, hemp fiber is the natural fiber with the most potential functions. Presumably, as people increasingly pursue health and quality of life, hemp-related products will also become more and more popular in the market. Go deep into people’s lives.
2. What is ramie?
Ramie is a type of hemp, originated in my country, and is also known as “Chinese grass” and “rich silk”. Mubuka’s Japanese-style partition curtains are basically ramie-woven summer cloth curtains, so we have talked too much about ramie in previous articles. If you don’t know yet, you can click on the following article to read it.
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The charm of ramie lies not only in the cultural connotations mentioned in the above article, What’s more, its actual function: ramie not only has the most basic moisture-absorbing and breathable function of hemp fiber, but also has a light herbal fragrance and is not susceptible to mold corrosion. Ramie fiber is the longest and thinnest among various hemp fibers. The fiber length is two to seven times longer than the highest grade cotton.
3. What is flax?
Flax is also a type of hemp. It is a rare natural fiber, accounting for only 1.5% of the total natural fibers. Because of its naturalness, simplicity, rarity, natural color and nobility, it is known as the “Queen of Fibers among Natural Fibers”.
Flax fiber also has many excellent properties, such as moisture absorption and heat dissipation, anti-fouling and anti-static, anti-ultraviolet, and excellent flame retardant effect. Because of its excellent heat dissipation properties, linen fiber fabrics are known as “natural air conditioners”. Linen is made into clothing, which absorbs and releases moisture very quickly, and can promptly adjust the ecological temperature environment of the surface layer of human skin.
Soviet literature also describes the performance of linen fabrics: linen fabrics can reduce human sweating than other fabrics, and linen textiles absorb water several times faster than satin, rayon fabrics, and even cotton fabrics.
4. Ramie VS Flax
The properties of ramie and flax are actually very similar, except that ramie fiber is thicker and longer than flax fiber, has higher strength, is more brittle and hard, and is easier to fold. It will break, so when designing ramie-related products, wrinkle shapes should be avoided, and no folding should be done during maintenance. Ramie is white in color, has good luster, has better dyeability than linen, and can easily obtain richer colors than linen.
In addition to being used for clothing, ramie and linen are also widely used in decorative cloths, tablecloths, napkins, handkerchiefs, tents and other household items.
5. What is cotton and linen?
Cotton and linen, as the name suggests, are fabrics that contain both cotton and…��component fabrics. Cotton and linen always appear together with commoners. In ancient times, cotton and linen were the first choice of mass society. It is also a culture accumulated over thousands of years of history, and it is also a representative of spirit.
Cotton and linen fabrics are cotton and linen blended fabrics, so they have the advantages of both. They have the soft touch and dull luster of cotton, as well as the hygroscopicity, breathability and resistance of linen. It has the characteristics of static electricity, no pilling, no curling, etc. Warm in winter and cool in summer, it can be used for underwear, as well as indoor soft furnishings such as tablecloths, curtains, and partition curtains.
The return of the “commoner spirit” also interprets the collision of nature and fashion. Will it feel refreshing when you incorporate linen, cotton and linen products into your life?
6. Linen VS Cotton and Linen
Many people confuse cotton and linen with linen. In fact, it is not difficult to distinguish between the two. The visual roughness of pure linen is stronger than that of cotton and linen. It is normal for the roving to appear and the color deviation of some threads, because the process of producing linen fabric is relatively different from that of cotton and linen.
In addition, the actual thickness of real pure cotton and linen fabrics, even if they are thin, is not too thin. If it is too thin, we have to check whether the cotton and linen are blended with chemical fibers; no matter what color the cotton or linen is, the surface will not reflect light. If it reflects light, it is very likely that chemical fibers are added to the material. When purchasing, discretion is required.
7. Why are hemp products generally expensive?
Nobility ends in appearance, beauty lasts in heart. The price of linen is not unreasonable.
First of all, it is relatively troublesome to make fabrics containing hemp. Take ramie as an example. Because its fiber is relatively special, there are many steps from sowing and harvesting of ramie plants to rinsing, yarn, and final weaving. The production of linen cloth can only be done by hand, which is inefficient and has low returns. Many cloth artists are unwilling to engage in this industry anymore. The handicraft art of linen cloth was once on the verge of being lost.
Furthermore, the income of Bun farmers is low, the quality of hemp is relatively good, and agricultural resources are relatively precious. Things are rare and expensive, and natural fabrics like hemp are naturally not cheap.
The most important reason is the nature and style of the hemp material itself. Hemp is not only highly hygroscopic and breathable as mentioned above, but also has certain flame retardancy. You can take a little bit of linen fabric and light it with fire. You will find that during the burning process, you can
It smells like burning paper, and after burning, the fabric turns gray-white, making it difficult to cause secondary combustion throughout the process. Other non-natural fabrics, such as chemical fiber fabrics, are extracted from petroleum. When burned, black smoke is emitted and the smell is very pungent. After burning, they form melts and have a combustion-supporting effect on other substances.
