Superior quality fibre, neat spinning, durability,
colour fastness, requisite elasticity, etc., are some of the features that
competently market our range of our knitting yarns, cotton yarns, cotton
combed yarns in the domestic as well as international marketplace. Meeting
the stringent application requirements of varied industries, these combed
knitting yarns comply with the requisite industrial standards. Available in
multiple packaging options these knitting yarns cater to specific needs of
textile, garment, weaving and many other industri
Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked
fibers, suitable for use in the production of textiles, sewing, crocheting,
knitting, weaving and ropemaking. Yarn is any fiber used to construct a
fabric.
Natural Fibers
The most common natural fiber is cotton, which is typically spun into fine
yarn for mechanical weaving or knitting into cloth.
Synthetic Fibers
A number of synthetic materials are also commonly made into yarn, chiefly
acrylic. All-acrylic yarns are available, as are wool-acrylic blends in
various proportions. Some other synthetics are available as well; yarn
designed for use in socks frequently contains a small percentage of nylon,
and numerous specialty yarns exist.
Yarn is manufactured by either a spinning or air texturizing process. Yarn
manufacturing was one of the very first processes that was industrialized.
Construction
Yarn used for fabric manufacture is made by spinning short lengths of
various types of fibers. Synthetic fibers which have high strength,
artificial lustre, and fire retardant qualities are blended with natural
fibers which have good water absorbance and skin comforting qualities, in
different proportions to manufacture yarn for fabric. The most widely used
blends are cotton-polyester fiber blends.
Yarns are made up of any number of plies, each ply being a single spun yarn.
These single plys of yarn are twisted in the opposite direction (plied)
together to make a thicker yarn.
In some cases, thread may be monofilament, or made of a single fiber
Measurement
Yarn quantities are usually measured by weight. These measurements are taken
at a standard temperature and humidity, because yarn can absorb moisture
from the air.
There are several thicknesses of yarn, also referred to as weight. There is
an industry-standard system for measuring this, numbering the weights from 1
(finest) to 5 (heaviest), but it is not precise and tends to be subjective.
There are also names for the various weights of yarn, but they are also
subjective. From finest to thickest, they are called lace, fingering, sock,
sport, double-knit (or DK), worsted, aran, bulky, and super-bulky. This is
also not precise; fiber artists disagree about where on the continuum each
lies, and the precise relationships between the sizes.
A more precise measurement of yarn weight, often used by weavers, is wraps
per inch (wpi). The yarn is wrapped snugly around a ruler and the number of
wraps that fit in an inch are counted.
Labels on yarn for handcrafts often include information on gauge, known in
the UK as tension, which is a measurement of how many stitches and rows are
produced per inch or per centimeter on a specified size of knitting needle
or crochet hook.
In Europe textile engineers often use the unit tex, which is the weight in
grams of a kilometer of yarn, or decitex, which is a finer measurement
corresponding to the weight in grams of 10 kilometers of yarn. Many other
units have been used over time by different industries.
Uses
Yarn can be used in many ways to produce fabric or designs on fabric.
Weaving, knitting, crochet, crewel embroidery are some forms of hand and
machine fabrication that are being used.Natural fibers such as these have
the advantage of being slightly elastic and very breathable, while trapping
a great deal of air, making for a fairly warm fabric
