What is The Width of Fabric?

How to understand the width of fabric?

Fabric Width is the actual width of fabric,it is the distance between the outermost warp on both side of fabric,there are three ways of expressing fabric width in China.And in general,the fabric width is expressed in inches or centimeters.

In general fabric sold by the textile mill is between the most margin of fabric width,and when the clothing factory use fabric need to know fabric usable width, the usable width is the range of fabric available.

Usable width=It is edge to edge width minus two inches.

The width of fabric has several factors

1.The thicker the yarn,the bigger the width;

2.The heavier the product,the smaller the width;

3.The greater the lateral contraction,the bigger the width;(The effect is very small,about 2-3CM)

4.The contain needle in the structure will make the width increases,the flat needle will make the width smaller.

At present,in the market about width of fabric common standards have 36 inches,44 inches,56-60 inches,etc.They are called narrow width,medium width and wide width.More than 60 inches of fabric is special wide width,in general is called special wide width fabric.The special wide width of fabric can reach 360CM in our country now.