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What is viscose? Couture ideas, origins and ecological alternatives
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Small anecdotes on denim 👖
Written by Kemar of the product team
the denim is a Serge canvas with armor mostly made up of indigo cotton threads and ecru cotton threads in frame.
Both comfortable flexible and very resistant, it is very popular, including in sewing collections it is its origin from Nîmes (Bleu de Nîmes) city where the canvas was made in the 18th century.
But we also evoke an Italian Genesis. The port of Genoa used the ancestor of this so -called Futaine canvas for the sails of boats and sailor pants (the English big importers pronounce Jean for the word Genoa no coincidence!)
Whatever its place in the history of cotton, through the centuries, this fabric is for on a journey in the imagination of the conquest of the West and the American dream, we therefore wish you good trip and good seam all !
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A few words on Thomas Burberry ... ✍️
Thomas Burberry was born on August 27, 1835 and died April 7, 1926.
He is at the origin of the foundation of the famous brand Burberry.
But did you know that he is the inventor of the gabardine in 1859?
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All about viscose!
the tissue is part of our cultural heritage and it is exciting to know the history of textile fibers ...
We have chosen to tell you a few words on viscose, unknown and often controversial material which deserves more transparency.
Do you certainly have in your dressing room a clothing in flamboyant colors united or printed, fluid and light, so pleasant to wear?
It could then be a garment in viscose fabric... which has the appearance of cotton and the softness of silk ...
Viscose is a type of radiation, an '' artificial silk ''.
You certainly know that a fabric can be natural as the cotton, flax, or synthetic like polyester or nylon for example.
However, viscose is neither really natural nor really synthetic.
An ambiguous fabric!
A natural vegetable and then artificial fiber.
It comes from a natural material but its manufacture is synthetic.
It consists of 90% cellulose like cotton, and it is using molecular syntheses that it has been created.
This cellulose is wood paste, the main constituting trees
This quality of fabric is the first '' created '' of artificial chemical textiles.
It was invented at the end of the nineteenth century by an engineer and industrialist from Besançon, the Count Hilaire de Chardonnet ..... he managed to replace silkworms with vegetable cellulose from wood paste.
Wearing a viscose garment almost the same feeling as wearing a cotton garment.
If the viscose fabric has a silky touch and a brilliant appearance, it is thanks to its synthetic manufacture which makes its fibers infinitely finer.
Viscose is one of the most popular fabrics because it has a quality multitudes: it is soft, comfortable, ultra fluid, shiny, absorbent ...
Its production makes it possible to offer a cheap alternative to silk thanks to a less expensive cost of realization.
However, despite all its qualities viscose is a controversial material because of its not very ecological manufacturing ...
Even if it comes from natural material, which makes it sometimes considered ecological ... Its manufacture remains polluting.
Indeed, the chemical process for making it uses caustic soda (which makes it brilliant), carbon disulfide and sulfuric acid ...
This process generates very significant sulfur pollution.
Manufacturing also requires the use of large amounts of water.
Good news all the same:
Note that considerable efforts are made by viscose manufacturers to ensure clean manufacturing despite the use of chemicals.
Trials have therefore been carried out to find a solvent to dissolve cellulose while having a lesser impact on the environment. It is the Solvent N-Methylmorpholine-N-oxide (NMMO) which has been chosen: it is not toxic, and it is recyclable, which makes its impact very low for our environment.
Consequently, the mess of viscose would be doubly expensive to the planet, which is whyMy Little Couponis working to put this material on the market in quantity!
What is Gabardine?
Gabardine is a fabricSolid with tight weaving, on the basis of a chilled armor recognizable by the diagonals visible on the place.
Today you can find many compositions of cottons putting natural mixed or completely synthetic. Attention ! At My Little Coupon we like to recall it synthetic is not necessarily synonymous with poor quality, quite the contrary! Some polyester are much better qualities than certain bristles for example.
It is a rather heavy, dense fabric, a beautiful fall and the firm outfit in Rigid depending on its weight. It crumps little and offers a slightly water repellent effect.
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Today many rain coats are made of gabardine calledburberriesin England andgabardinein France.
This is Thomas Burberry Who created him in 1880 following a meeting with a shepherd from his native Brockham village in the Surrey 🇬🇧 (United Kingdom). The latter's jacket had become waterproof by the product he used when swimming of sheep 🐑 Thomas Burberry filed the patent in 1888 and had the exclusive manufacturing until 1917
So, are you going to come out the anecdote?
The great advantages of Gabardine
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Gabardine's density offers him a water -repellent effect. If the wires are treated, it can be waterproof. It naturally resumes are smooth aspect and is not very crossed.
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PEU FRUISABLE, it naturally resumes its smooth appearance. His density gives him an elegant fall in volume and the outfit.
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Gabardine is aComfortable & resistant fabric. Same waterproof it lets transpiration evacuate.
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She isEasy to sewand to manipulate. Uncompromising, it allows beautiful stitching, ideal for the folded seams of the jackets and coats.
How to maintain gabardine?
Gabardine maintenance depends on the composition. We recommend washing up to 40 ° C with a delicate program. If it is a woolen gabardine we suggest to you to avoid deformations to give it to the pressing.
You can now find all our gabardines In our collection Gabardine available here !
