Lapel silk
As lapel silk a very elegant-looking, smooth, shiny and smooth silk or silk-like clothing fabric is called. According to its name, it is preferred for the lapels , the turned-out upper front edges of festive clothing, especially men's jackets .
The lapel silk highlights the lapel games, especially when tails and tuxedo jackets and classic women's suits. For these purposes, the Krefeld silk weaving mill G. Hollender Söhne had them made from their original material, natural silk , as early as the 1820s.
Lapel silk requires a high thread density in the warp and a low weft insertion . Two bindings are used, warp atlas and 5-string weft atlas. As a result, the fabric shows a warp satin on both sides . Usually, 2016, according to a textile lexicon from the year Organsinkette and shot a cotton thread used. The weight is around 220 grams per square meter.
A manufacturer of lapel silk named the following advantages of its product in its offer in 2019, in this case woven from synthetic filaments :
- “Excellent shape-retaining properties due to their softness and suppleness
- Excellent color fastness and care properties
- No problems with production steps such as laying / cutting , so smoking jackets can be produced on normal jacket production lines as a matter of course.
- Insensitive to water or steam during finishing processes
- Insensitive to pressure, quilting or stacking. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ 125 years of silk weaving by G. Holländer Sons Krefeld. Krefeld 1967, p. 26.
- ↑ Thomas Meyer to Capellen: Lexicon of tissues . dfv Mediengruppe Fachbuch, January 5, 2016. Last accessed on April 12, 2019.
- ↑ www.helsa.com: lapel silk . Last accessed on April 12, 2019.