Home spun

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Home-spun (English, roughly " home-spun ") is a trade name for yarns that look similar to hand-spun yarns, as well as for hand-woven fabrics.

Home spun yarn

Home-spun yarns have an uneven cross-section with a thread course with thicker or thinner areas due to a deliberately uneven carding . This is intended to reinforce the character of the "hand-spun".

Home spun fabric

The Homme-Spun fabrics are hand-woven fabrics originally from England ("English" patterned). They are made but term loosely yarns and porous in simple and fast forming bonds woven. The fabric is hardly drummed, the weave remains clearly recognizable, sometimes with nubs and loops (loops made of fancy twine). If a lighter weight or a softer feel is to be achieved, merino wool is also used instead of the previously exclusively common crossbread wool and the wool of the Cheviot sheep .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fabia Denninger, Elke Giese: Textile and Model Lexicon . Volume 2: L-Z. 8th, completely revised and expanded edition. Deutscher Fachverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-87150-848-9 , p. 319.
  2. ^ A b Alfons Hofer: Textile and Model Lexicon. 7th edition. Volume 1, Deutscher Fachverlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-87150-518-8 , keyword “Home-spun”.