Flocked cotton?

Flocked cotton? tanya snipped-for-privacy@ihug.com.au (Tatiana) I came across the this term "flocked twill cotton". Can anyone please tell me in simple terms what is it?

Thank you very much for you answer and for the links!

Tatiana

"Flocked" means that they have glued fuzz to it.

"Cotton" should mean that the base fabric is made of thread spun from the seed hairs of the cotton plant, but advertising people tend to use words in a "creative" manner; check the fine print and look for the words "fiber content".

"Twill" is a very large group of weaves. If they just say "twill" they probably mean that the fabric is composed of very narrow diagonal stripes, one stripe all weft and the next one all warp. (The stripes are not easy to see unless the warp and weft are different colors.)

In herringbone twill, the direction of the diagonal stripes changes at intervals to make a zig-zag pattern. Twill tape is usually herringbone twill.

Twill fabrics are softer than plain-woven fabrics of the same density, so most durable fabrics are twills. (Canvas, however, is plain woven.)

Work denim (the stuff that blue jeans, the ancestors of designer jeans, were made of) was a very heavy cotton twill made with indigo-dyed warp and a soft, unbleached weft. In denim, the diagonal stripes are hard to see even though the warp and weft are different colors. The warp predominates on the right side, and the weft predominates on the wrong side, so the inside is much paler than the outside when the fabric is new.

Joy Beeson

Is that what we might call 'brushed denim' ? Might look or feel something like those jeans that used to be so popular.

:) Trish

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 23:46:27 +0100 in alt.sewing, Trishty was alleged to have written:

No, not really. Think "fake velvet."

Re: Flocked cotton?

Flocking, as opposed to a uniformly brushed surface, is usually applied in a pattern of some sort. You've seen flocked wallpaper, surely, which was popular in the 70s--it had a raised, velvety pattern, usually a sort of paisley, or stylized floral.

Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati

I'd rather not...

:) Trish