useful to fashion design students.

1. 100 –short questions and answers
in textiles
(Students study material.)

2. • Compiled by-
• R.S.BALAKUMAR,
• Associate professor (part-time),
• DFD&A. HITS , Chennai.
• mail.id - rsbalakumar1953@gmail.com

3. 1.What are the different types of fabrics?
• • Chiffon. Chiffon is a sheer, lightweight, plain-woven
fabric made from twisted yarn that gives it a slightly
rough feel. •
• Cotton. Known as the most popular material in the
world, cotton is a light, soft natural fabric. ...
• • Crepe. ...
• • Denim. ...
• • Lace. ...
• • Leather. ...
• • Linen. ...
• • Satin.

4. 2.What are the different types of
fabrics in India?
• The world of Indian textiles
• Muga silk. Muga silk is a beautiful kind of silk produced
in Assam. ...
• Manipuri cotton. Manipur is famous for the production
of cotton fabric, popularly known as Manipuri cotton.
• Khadi or Khaddar. Khadi, which is also known as
Khaddar, is the pride of India. ...
• Kashmiri woolen fabric. ...
• Kota Doria.

5. 3.What are the five different types of
textiles?
• Textiles are classified according to their component fibers into
• silk,
• wool,
• linen,
• cotton,
• such synthetic fibers as rayon,
• nylon, and
• polyesters, and
• some inorganic fibers,
• such as cloth of gold, glass fiber., and asbestos cloth.

6. 4.What types of fabrics are popular?
• Here are the most popular fabrics used for clothing attire are:
• Cotton Fabric. Cotton is a natural fabric, most soothing and skin
friendly, light thin and soft. ...
• Silk Fabric. ...
• Linen Fabric. ...
• Wool Fabric. ...
• Leather Material. ...
• Georgette Fabric. ...
• Chiffon Fabric. ...
• Nylon Fabric.,

7. 5.What are the two types of fabrics?
• There are two main types of fabrics:
• natural and synthetic.
• Natural fabrics such as wool, cotton, silk, and
linen are made from animal goats,
• cotton-plant seed pods,
• fibers from silkworms, and flax (fiber from the
stalk of a plant), respectively.

8. 6.Which is the most expensive fabric?
• Vicuna Wool.
• What makes this wool material an expensive fabric is
because it came from Vicuna sheep, a rare sheep species that
is mostly found in Peru. ...
• Guanaco.
• Like the Vicuna wool, the guanaco is another expensive
textile that came from another exceptional animal. ...
• Mulberry Silk. ...
• Leopard Furs. ...
• Koigu Kersti Cashmere.

9. 7.What is the softest fabric?
• Egyptian cotton
• The softest one is called Egyptian cotton and it
has the longest fiber length.
• The second place is taken by the Pima cotton,
and
• American upland cotton takes the third place.

10. 8.Which is the most used fabric in
India?
• Cotton clothes
• Cotton clothes and its blends are the most
common fabric favored by everyone across the
world.
• Cotton suits are very popular in India owing to
long summer months and the versatility of the
fabric.
• From casual to formal, cotton clothing are a must
have for every one!

11. 9. How many types of clothes are
there?
• 28 Types of Fabrics are in Uses at present.
• Deciding which type of fabric to make an item
with is an important decision, as fabrics can
have countless qualities.
• From natural to synthetic fibers and from knit
to woven, here's a look at different fabric types
and how to identify them.

12. 10.What are the six categories of
textiles?
• Textiles are made from many materials, with
four main sources:
• animal (wool, silk),
• plant (cotton, flax, jute, bamboo),
• mineral (asbestos, glass fiber), and
• synthetic (nylon, polyester, acrylic, rayon).
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13. 11.How many types of Fibers are there?
• There are two types of fibers –
• One is natural fibers which are obtained from
natural sources e.g. Cotton, silk, wool.
• and
• other is synthetic fibers which are man-made
for example – rayon, nylon, acrylic etc.
• artificial fibers made from petroleum.

14. 12. How do Identify the fabric?
• Short of taking fabric to a lab for identification,
• the fabric burn test is the most dependable way
to determine a fabric material of unknown origin.
• A fabric burn test won't tell you the exact name
of the fabric you're dealing with, but it will help you
match laundering and pressing needs.

15. 13.What fabric should normally use?
Common Fabrics used for Garments
FABRIC GROUP FABRIC TYPES SEWABILITY
COTTON Cotton sateen Easy
CHIFFON Silk chiffon, nylon chiffon and polyester chiffon Advanced
LINENLinen Easy
POLYESTER Poly-viscose, 100% polyester Intermediate - can be slippery

16. 14.What is cotton fabric?
• Cotton fabric – Different names and different types
• Aertex. A loosely woven cotton fabric, which is very lightweight, that is
used to make shirts and underwear. ...
• Absorbant cotton batting. ...
• Algodon cotton. ...
• Armure. ...
• Baft. ...
• Bark Cloth. ...
• Basket weave cotton. ...
• Broderie Anglaise.

17. 15.What type of fabric is best for
dresses?
• Fabric Types for Spring Dresses
• Voile, Batiste, Challis, and Gauze are breezy and
lightweight.
• Chambray, poplin, and lawn are classic shirting fabrics
perfect for dresses.
• Eyelet, Plisse, and Seersucker are textured spring
essentials.
• Linen, cotton, and ray on keep you cool with
breathable fibers.

18. 16. How many types of net fabric are
there?
• Net or netting is an open mesh form of fabric
construction that is held together by knots or
fused thermoplastic yarns at each point where
the yarn cross one another.
• There are several types of mesh; they are
square, hexagonal, and octagonal.

19. 17. What is the Grade C fabric?
• Grade C (Standard Sunbrella and In Stock
Options)– Top quality cushions made with the
best materials. ... Grade C cushions are typically
made from synthetic polymers called acrylics,
which are 100% solution dyed before they
become a fiber .

20. 18.How do you identify fabric by
touching?
• Silk fabrics are very smooth to touch, bright
and lustrous in appearance.
• The fingers run softly over silk fabrics.
• Woolen fabrics are course to touch, with
small protruding fiber hairs.
• Polyester and rayon fabrics are smooth to
touch and lustrous and color fastness.

21. 19.Which cloth material is costly?
• Silk: Mulberry silk, Muga silk, Spider silk,
velvet and Charmeuse silk are the most famous
and royal silk fabrics.
• Mulberry silk is the finest and soft silk which
is the most expensive silk fabric in the world!
• Even Cashmere silk and vicuna silk are famous
for their quality.

22. 20.What is world's best Cotton?
• Egyptian cotton.
• All these factors have resulted in Egyptian cotton
being by far the best cotton in the world.
• Fabrics made of Egyptian Cotton are
• softer,
• finer and
• last longer than
• any other cotton in the world.

23. 21.Which are the countries produce
the best fabrics?
• Nigeria. ...
• India. ...
• Pakistan. ...
• China. ...
• Morocco. ...
• Malaysia.

24. 22.What is the softest fabric for T-shirts?
• tri-blended fabric.
• The softest t-shirt material is tri-blend fabric.
• This material blends three kinds of fibers to
create a texture that feels light and silky against the
skin.
• The most common blend of fibers in a tri-blend
fabric is 50% polyester, 25% cotton, and 25% rayon.

25. 23.What is the softest T-shirt material?
• Cotton is one of the most common materials
that t-shirts are made out of.
• It is also one of the softest!
• There are a few different types of cotton
within the basic namesake of “cotton”.
• The most common cotton types are combed
cotton, organic cotton, and pima cotton.

26. 24. What is the softest cotton fabric
for clothes?
• Pima Cotton Fabric.
• Pima cotton is among the
• softest and
• most delicate kinds of cotton in the world
because of its extra-large staple fiber that
exceeds the size of average cotton fiber.

27. 25. What are Indian patterns called?
• Although the pine cone or almond-like form is of
Persian origin, and the textile designs cramming
many of them into a rich pattern are originally
Indian,
• the English name for the patterns derives from
the town of Paisley,
• in the west of Scotland, a centre for textiles
where paisley designs were produced.

28. 26. What is Indian fabric?
• India Khadi is a handspun, hand-woven
natural fiber cloth.
• Also known as khaddar during British era,
depict purely India or one say it's a swadeshi
fabric.
• Fibers are spun into yarn on a spinning wheel
called a charkha.

29. 27. Which Indian cloth are popular all
over the world?
• saree is considered as the fifth best traditional
outfit in the world.
• Our traditional Indian wear for both men and
women,
• saree,
• salwar kameez,
• kurta pyjama and
• various other outfits are famous all across the
world.

30. 28.How many types of ladies wear?
• 18 Different Dress Types and Styles for
Women normally used.
• The fashion industry continues to evolve
salwar-kameez.
• Dhoti-salwar.
• Patiala-pant.
• Kurthi/tops/shirt/blouses.

31. 29.Enlist the different types of Fashion
Styles
• Street wear Style.
• Ethnic fashion style.
• Formal Office Wear.
• Business Casual.
• Evening Black Tie.
• Sports Wear.
• Girly Style.
• Androgynous fashion style.

32. 30.How do you classify clothes?
• Fabric is classified into four categories;
• they are
• Knitted Fabric,
• Woven Fabric,
• Non-woven Fabric and
• Braided Fabric.
• There are two types of sub materials, Trims and
Accessories.
• .

33. 31.What are the five different types of textiles?
• Basically, textile fabrics can be classified into two:
Natural fibre and
• man-made fibre.
• Plant-based. Over the years, using fabrics made from
plants have become a trend. ...
• Animal-based. Textiles made from this fibre usually
come from the fur or skin of animals. ...
• Cellulosic. ...
• Semi-synthetic. ...
• Synthetic.

34. 32.What is the difference between fabric and textile?
• Textiles stand alone as an unfinished product,
or they can combine with other materials to
create something different.
• Fabric is mainly an “ingredient” mixed with
other materials, creating the finished product.

35. 33.What are the natural fibers?
• Cotton.
• Silk.
• Fur.
• Jute.
• Flax.
• Wool.
• Kapok.
• Hemp.

36. 34. What are the four types of cotton?
• Actually, there are four types of cotton grown
commercially worldwide: ...
• Gossypium Hirsutum. Most of the world's cotton
production, in fact, 90 percent of it, consists of gossypium
hirsutum, commonly known as upland cotton.
• Gossypium Barbadense. ...
• Gossypium Arboretum. ...
• Gossypium Herbaceum.

37. 35. What is the best quality cotton fabric?
• Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) is made of
short-staple fibers that offer reliable quality at an
affordable price.
• It's also the most common, making up nearly
90% of all cotton produced around the world.
• The remaining 10% consists of two higher-quality
cottons —
• Egyptian cotton and
• pima cotton

38. 36. What types of fabrics are popular in India?
• Cotton Fabric. Cotton is the most popular type of
fabrics used due to its versatility. ...
• Silk Fabric. Silk fabric is made from the natural fiber of
the cocoons of the caterpillars. ...
• Linen types of Fabrics. ...
• Wool Fabric. ...
• Chiffon Fabric. ...
• Nylon Fabric. ...
• Velvet Fabric. ...
• Polyester Fabric.

39. 37. What are the Indian textiles?
• Cotton and silk are the raw materials most
associated with Indian textiles.
• India supplied cotton cloth to the world for
centuries.
• The country also produced an astonishing variety
of hand-made fabrics for domestic use until
industrialization changed how cottons were made
and sold.

40. 38. What types of fabrics are popular?
• Cotton Fabric. Cotton is a natural fabric, most
soothing and skin friendly, light thin and soft.
• Silk Fabric. ...
• Linen Fabric. ...
• Wool Fabric. ...
• Leather Material. ...
• Georgette Fabric. ...
• Chiffon Fabric. ...
• Nylon Fabric.

41. 39.Which city is famous for textile industry in
India?
• Mumbai is called as 'Cottonpolis of India'.
• The textile industry has also spread to Sholapur,
• Kolhapur,
• Pune,
• Jalgaon,
• Akola,
• Sangali,
• Nagpur,
• Satara,
• Wardha,
• Aurangabad and
• Amravati.
• It is the second largest producer of cotton textiles after Maharashtra.Gurat.

42. 40. What are the types of fabric and its uses?
• Cotton. Most cotton fabrics are “pre-shrunk”,
which makes them highly durable. ...
• Synthetics (Polyester, Nylon, Spandex, etc.) ...
• Rayon. ...
• Linen. ...
• Cashmere. ...
• Silk. ...
• Wool.