Steps to identify textile fabrics

We generally categorize textile materials into two types: natural materials and chemically synthesized materials. As natural materials, most common are cotton (cotton denim, cotton canvas, etc.), silk, linen (flax, jute, hemp), animal fur, etc., and chemical materials generally come from petroleum extracts, most common are polyester, spandex, spandex, that is, we are familiar with like jiajiajia cloth, lycra, polyester or nylon lace fabric, etc.. So how to identify a fabric is natural or artificial? It is very simple, a few steps to help you all.

  1. Touch the burnt residue to see if it is powdery or sticky or burnt. Judgment standards lie in the natural materials, such as silk and hemp products, burned with fire after no irritating odor, charred with a powdery touch, while the dermis burnt after there is a similar to what we eat meat was burned after the odor, and artificial from the petroleum refined polyester, nylon, spandex is burned after the fire is black smoke, irritating odor, obviously with natural ingredients of the textile Fabrics are different from natural ingredients.

  2. Carefully observe the texture of the fabric, the surface texture, and use your hands to perceive the feel of the fabric.

  3. Use a lighter to burn our fabric, ask whether there is an irritating odor, to see if there is no black smoke.

  After all this, a reliable test method is to the relevant testing organizations for chemical composition test, then all the components of the fabric will be detected, can not be faked. If the previously mentioned look, touch, burn are to solve the fabric doubt, advocating that we can use the test method to give themselves a clear perception.