Velvet Chenille Yarn
Posted in Sewing on 10/03/2004 01:35 am by admin
True or False: The pile surface on a velvet fabric is created by using chenille yarn in the weft.?
I have a take home test for my Textiles class. I can't find an answer anywhere in my text book. All it says about velvet is that it is a filament yarn fabric with cut-pile surface that stands erect. But it does not specfiy if the yarn is chenille yarn.
False. If chenille yarns were used, the back of the fabric would have a pile, also.
Velvet is either woven with two fabrics face to face and an extra warp yarn worked between them -- cut the extra yarn between the two fabrics to make the pile of both pieces at once, or it's woven on a loom
with a raised set of wires the extra warp is looped over, and then clipped.
http://books.google.com/books?id=SshI5QYlgKMC&pg=PA352&lpg=PA352&dq=velvet+weaving&source=bl&ots=MrhtPJZreO&sig=KORuQABfUtrGNrA3yyWN2jKlvbE&hl=en&ei=S5UWS8bzAoPOsgOIz-CMBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAwQ6AEwATgU#v=onepage&q=velvet weaving&f=false
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 5 skeins of chenille cotton yarn Forest Green lush vintage style color velvet  US $9.00
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