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FEATURE
Blending In
While the pure cottons, silks, wools, polyesters,
and viscose will always remain classics, the new
mantra of textile designers is to experiment by
blending fabrics. A blended fabric is that which
has been created using more than two fibres.
On many occassions, it comes as a blessing in
disguise for people, who, for instance, wish to
wear silk in summer (think a cotton-silk blend).
According to Technology Online, which is
devoted to technology education in New Zealand,
“Blended fabrics are created when two or more
different kinds of fibres are mixed together to
create a new fabric with unique properties.
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Fabric blends have always been welcomed by
the apparel industry, which constantly thrives on
innovation. Chitra Balasubramaniam talks about
a few of them.