by Heather Luke | Jun 24, 2015
Pronounced ray-me, Boehmeria nivea, a flowering plant also known as China grass, which produces a bast fibre. The white ramie is traditionally cultivated in China, and the green ramie in the Malay peninsula. Nowadays it is also grown in Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, the...
by Heather Luke | Jun 24, 2015
Railroading means to use fabric ‘the other way around’, that is, with the straight of grain across the width rather along the roll. * Most fabrics are woven to be strongest running along their length, but just occasionally with a horizontally...
by Heather Luke | Jun 24, 2015
Used to describe either: 1. An all over pattern with no particular sense of a centre, or any part which is significantly more important than another, making pattern matching either unnecessary, pointless or arbitrary. However, as all printed patterns will have a...
by Heather Luke | Jun 24, 2015
A numerical comparison between the size of two things. In textiles, ratio refers to: the overall dimension, the width go height of a motif whether woven or printed, and the way it is repeated in proportion to the finished length, or room. * The ratio...
by Heather Luke | Jun 24, 2015
1. Any fibre, but usually cotton, linen, wool and silk in its natural, unprocessed state, before bleaching, dyeing, etc. Once the fibres are woven into fabric it’s usually known as unbleached or loomstate rather than raw. Raw silk describes any silk where...
