Hello everybody! I am Alberto and I am a textile technician that lives and works in Italy. I have decided to create this RU-vid channel to share all my textile and leather knowledge with you. Hope you will like it, and if you have any kind of question I am at disposal via e-mail: textilewithalberto@gmail.com All the best!
is there a more eco friendly version of elastane? Like a version that is still stretchy, but it stands out from other types in the eco-friendly category
@@capkapchannel4587 There is natural rubber. The performances are very similar, elasticity is good. Only downside is that it dries and crumbles faster than elastane (still elastane doesn't have a long shelf life. After 6 months it starts deteriorating)
You were saying a word like "veil" around 2:48, I'm not sure if "fibre" or "layer" or what would be a better word here but that didn't seem quite right. Nonwoven clothing: You forgot about felt! felt is a nonwoven that is widely used for hats and is not at all a low quality material in that context.
Thank you for this I work in a nonwovens factory and I’m very curious as to how it really works they explain it to us but now I’m grave detail and we see it be made all day every day. 365.
If I have a piece of clothing made from 91% polyamide and 9% elastane would it be possible for tailor to find the exact fabric and custom make another piece?
Hi Carniolan, it's not easy but he can surely find a similar fabric with the same features and same knitting points/pattern, but the color will not be 100% the same due to metamerism. A tailor cannot reproduce a fabric, you have to ask to a knitting mill/weaving mill, but it will cost you a lot of money to study the fabric, project a new one, set up the machines, buy the correct yarn and knit/weave it!
@@textilewithalberto998 if i found the same type of clothing with the same fabric material composition in a shop how different can the fabric be really? Thanks
If it's the same clothing with the same fabric material, of course the fabric is the same. Clothing are always produced in series. Are you 100% sure it's the same fabric material?@@Carniolan
@@textilewithalberto998 i may have worded my question in a wrong way. I meant the same type of clothing with fabric consisting of 91% polyamide and 9% elastane
@@Carniolan Composition is not the only feature that distinguish one garment from another. You can have two fabrics with the same compositions, but different yarns, different yarn counts, different finishings, different type of weave/knitting patterns, different dyeing technologies. If you think about weaving and knitting alone, there are thousands of different weaving that you can make with the same yarn. If you put a fabric into a stenter for different time, the hand changes completely.
Great video! Could you apply dwr coatings to natural fabrics like linen? Do you know what more sustainable dwrs are made with these days? Thanks Alberto
DWR Coatings can be applied on linen fabrics. There are some fluorine-free DWR coatings that use some kind of natural waxes, but even though they are considered "green", the durability and the performances drastically decrease.
You can make nonwovens starting from human hair, so I guess algae shouldn't be a problem! If they have the right mechanical features to pass through a calender.
Thanks for the inquiry. Surely this is a great question and I would have a go. You have to consider that with the felting technology (since it's a mechanical bonding) you can felt also hair and agricolture waste
You can do whatever you want in textiles. You can blend polyester with cotton, hemp with cotton, wool with jute, and surely jute with hemp, depends on the result you want to achieve.
