To get rid of skipped stitches and wrinkled seams, you need to choose the right sewing thread. These products are made from natural or artificial materials.
Types of sewing thread
There are two types of sewing threads: natural and synthetic. Each of them has subspecies according to the type of processing and use. The processed thread can be opal, matte, mercierized, unmerciated, harsh, bleached, colored, glossy. Silk dyed yarn is polyamide, polyester and viscose.
What are sewing threads made of?
The first large group of threads is natural. They are made from environmentally friendly materials - cotton, silk, linen. More than 50% of the threads produced by the textile industry are made from cotton. This is the name of a shrub plant of the Malvaceae family, which can be annual or perennial. There are about fifty types of cotton, but only four are suitable for the production of threads: hairy (shaggy), Barbados, tree-like, herbaceous.
Cotton is grown in specially designated fields, harvested and combed out. This is how cotton fibers are obtained, the longest of which reach 6-7 cm. The cotton yarn obtained in this way is processed with special compounds and enters the spinning shop. Here the fibers are twisted into long, even threads. But they are not yet usable. Sewing threads are taught by twisting long fibers in 2-3 layers.
Silk threads are made from raw silk. The volume of production of these products in total production is no more than 1% The principle of processing this raw material is in many ways similar to that of cotton. Another natural material from which sewing threads are made is flax.
The second group of threads is synthetic. This material is obtained from chemical fibers: polyamide or polyester. Artificial silk is made from polyester, aluminum metallized fiber, nylon. Synthetic items can be twisted left-to-right (S-twist) and right-to-left (Z-twist). In addition, a distinction is made between reinforced, complex, textured and staple fibers.
Sewing threads can be combined, consisting of natural and artificial fibers. Nowadays, purely cotton, linen or silk products are rarely used. For sewing the vast majority of products, they take a thread made of polyester and covered with cotton. The synthetic core of this material provides tensile strength, while the natural outer layer makes it smoother.
