Fil-à-fil

Blue fil-à-fil

The Fil-à-Fil (Latin-French for "thread to thread," English. "End-on-end") is a garment fabric with karoähnlichem tissue image.

It is a plain weave fabric, mostly made of cotton and linen, with a speckle effect that is created by changing colors in the warp, e.g. B. when a light and a dark warp thread alternate. The change can also be made in the shot , creating larger dots (also known as "caviar"). This speckled shimmer effect is also called the changeant effect .

With the “chambray” variant, the warp thread is always white, and the fabric is also calendered , which gives the “chambray” a slightly shiny appearance.

Colloquially, the "fil-à-fil" is also called "pepper and salt stuff". Because it is easy to iron and hard-wearing, fil-à-fil is often used in the tailoring of suits and shirts, but increasingly also in home textiles, e.g. B. for bed linen.

Individual evidence

↑ Duden | Fil-à-fil. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .
↑ "Pepper and salt" was the name given to a gray fabric as early as the 18th century, such as that worn by members of the Moravian Brethren . See Max Döllner : Development history of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch until 1933. Ph. C. W. Schmidt, Neustadt a. d. Aisch 1950; New edition ibid 1978, ISBN 3-87707-013-2 , p. 290.

[1] Duden | Fil-à-fil. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .

[2] "Pepper and salt" was the name given to a gray fabric as early as the 18th century, such as that worn by members of the Moravian Brethren . See Max Döllner : Development history of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch until 1933. Ph. C. W. Schmidt, Neustadt a. d. Aisch 1950; New edition ibid 1978, ISBN 3-87707-013-2 , p. 290.