Viscose Viscose fabrics have a silky to matte luster with an elegant flowing drape. The natural effect of the colors gives them an attractive look. Viscose is supple and has a softness that is comfortable to wear. As they can absorb perspiration quite quickly, making them very skin-friendly, but with poor thermal properties. Cellulose, usually derived from tree trunks, is converted into a highly viscous state and spun into a fiber by forcing it through spinneret holes. Polyester It is a type of fabric which is a synthetic, man-made fiber produced. Some of it's features are crease resistance, ability to dry quickly, shape retention in garments, high strength, abrasion resistance, and minimum care requirement. Rayon Characteristics: Any of various textile fibers or fabrics made from viscose. This cellulose fiber is highly absorbent. Its drapability and dye ability are excellent and it is fairly soft. Rayon does have a tendency to shrink but does not melt in high temperatures. It is resistant to moths and is not affected by ordinary household bleaches and chemicals. Cotton A natural vegetable fiber of great economic importance as a raw material for cloth. Its widespread use is largely due to the ease with which its fibers are spun into yarns. Cotton's strength, absorbency, and capacity to be washed and dyed also make it adaptable to a considerable variety of textile products. It is one of the world's major textile fibers. Wool Soft, strong and very durable wool fabric provide warmth and attractive appearance. It is the fabric which keeps the wearer dry while sweating and cool when it is hot. Wicking away perspiration from the body, wool fabric does not wrinkle easily and is resistant to dirt wear and tear. Wool fabric is equipped with different characteristics like warm, resists to wrinkle, wear and tear, it is light weight and durable which also absorbs moisture. Bamboo It is a natural textile made from the pulp of the bamboo grass. Bamboo fabric has been growing in popularity because it has many unique properties and is more sustainable than most textile fibers. Bamboo fabric is light and strong, has excellent wicking properties, and is to some extent antibacterial. The use of bamboo fiber for clothing was a 20th century development, pioneered by several Chinese corporations. Bamboo fiber resembles cotton in its unspun form, a puffball of light, airy fibers. Many companies use extensive bleaching processes to turn bamboo fiber white, although companies producing organic bamboo fabric leave the bamboo fiber unbleached.

T-shirt - a shirt with short sleeves, no collar and no pockets.

Polo shirt — a shirt with collar but only a partial vertical opening with buttons

Shirt or Dress shirt — a shirt with collar and full vertical opening with buttons (can be short or long sleeved)

Tank top — a sleeveless T-shirt

Blouse — ladies shirt (can be short or long sleeved)

Sweater, Sweatshirt — with or without hood

Rugby shirt — typically a rugged long-sleeved polo shirt

 

 

Pantone Colours (PMS or Spot Colours)
A set of standard colours for printing, each of which is specified by a single number. You can buy a Pantone swatch book containing samples of each colour. Some computer graphics software allows colours to be specified as Pantone numbers. Even though a computer monitor can only show an approximation to some of the colours, the software can output a colour separation for each different Pantone colour, enabling a print shop to exactly reproduce the original desired colour.

Please click here to download a sample of PMS Colours. (Word Doc)

 

• One popular home remedy is to add one cup of white vinegar to the final rinse of wash cycle. The white vinegar can be added to the fabric softener reservoir. This will help eliminate static cling and wrinkles.
• As soon as the last spin cycle of the washing machine finishes, remove the clothes immediately - don’t let them sit in a big damp clump. Take out each garment individually, shake it out to remove all the twists, and place it in the dryer or hang it on a clothes line.
• When using a tumble clothes dryer, don’t stuff your dryer so that clothes are unable to open up and dry evenly. If your clothes dry in a wad, all those wrinkles will be trapped in the fabric. Some people suggest adding five or six tennis balls to the load. The tennis balls will help prevent the clothes from clumping together which will keep air flowing over all surfaces of the clothes. This will also help reduce the time to dry. The tennis balls will make some additional noise as they tumble around but they won’t cause any harm to the dryer drum or to the clothing.
• Remove clothes from the dryer as soon as they are dry. Leaving clothes tumbling in a hot dryer after they are dry just bakes in wrinkles … besides creating the conditions for shrinking and increasing static cling. This also means that a dryer load should contain fabrics of a similar weight so that they dry in roughly the same amount of time. Don’t plop a couple of heavy bath towels, which will take a long time to dry, in a dryer with light cotton shirts, which will dry more quickly.
• Hang or fold clothes as soon as the clothes are dry and removed from the dryer. Don’t leave them in a big heap in the laundry basket waiting to cool down. When clothes cool down, they will tend to retain whatever shape they are in. If they cool down in a crumpled heap, they will look it.
• If you are hanging clothes on a line to dry rather than using a tumble dryer, give each garment a good shake and smooth the fabric when placing on the line to dry. The smoother the clothes when hanging them, the less wrinkles after they dry.
• When drying on a line whether outside or indoors, a breeze blowing on the clothes will not only help them dry more quickly, but will also help remove stiffness and give a softness to the fabric. When line drying indoors, you can even use an electric fan to create a breeze on the clothes. The motion will keep the fabric fibres flexible as they dry which not only helps prevent wrinkles but gives a softness to the fabric. This is also one of the effects of the tumbling action in clothes dryers.
• For 100% bamboo fabrics, line or flat drying is generally recommended. Tumble dryers can cause 100% bamboo clothes to loose their shape and even shrink.
• If possible, iron the back side of the fabric to avoid a shine. If you must press the visible side of the woollen fabric, use a press cloth or thin towel on top of the fabric;
• In the closet. The battle against the wrinkle doesn’t end in the laundry room. When hanging clothes in the closet, give them a little room to hang. If clothes are tightly smushed together then any creases or twists will effectively get pressed back into the clothes. Shirts are best hung on plastic or wood hangers (not metal like the ones you get from the dry cleaners) and pants are best using clamp-style hangers on the bottom cuffs.

“WARNING! Never iron or steam clothes while they are being worn.” – an actual warning in the operating instructions booklet for the high-end Rowenta electric steam clothes iron!!!