Coat, costume and upholstery fabric bouclé. Features and characteristics

The tissue of the bucelle is definitely a queen among costume and coat fabrics. This material has won the love of millions of fans around the world in less than one century. In many respects it became possible thanks to the inimitable Coco Chanel. It was she who brought the boucle to the level of the top-fabrics, and products from it very quickly moved from the fashion stage to the dressing rooms of such beauties as Audrey Hepburn and Sophia Loren. The first lady of the USA Jacqueline Kennedy and even the modern ladies from Buckingham Palace are ardent supporters of warm suits, for tailoring which tailors use bouclé fabric.

Cozy nodules

Bukle is a very recognizable kind of material. What is its peculiarity and why this fabric can not be confused with any other? The fact is that the surface of the material differs in an inhomogeneous, rough surface, as if it is covered with a scattering of small knots, which were created in the process of making a thread, called a boucle.

Thanks to special technologies on the shelves of stores there is a huge selection of boucle. The fabric (the description of each species requires a detailed deepening into the object under consideration), can be both monophonic and colored, with or without a pattern, and have different thickness and porosity. Its appearance and features strongly depend on how exactly yarn is made, and also on raw materials.

The yarn can be nodular - in this case the thread on the production is twisted in a special way, the machine turns it into a sort of spool. There is also a split boucle. In this case, the edge of the filaments is attached to the material "furry" to the material, which appears on the surface of the tissue after it is weaved. In the second version, the boucle is less durable, as compared to the knot, requires special care and careful operation. Thinner types of fabric are woven from twisted yarn.

In any case, whatever the method of manufacture, the boucle fabric has a high level of air permeability and looseness, due to which it perfectly warms in bad weather, and therefore it is used more often for sewing demi-season and winter clothes.

From what, how and by whom was this done?

Among inexperienced seamstresses and ordinary buyers of fabrics there is an opinion that boucle is an exceptionally coarse coat or costume fabric. But if you seriously question and find out about such material as the cloth boucle, what it is and what it is, you can learn a lot of curious.

To create a dense suit or coat fabric, we use a plain weave of threads. In the same place where there is a need to create a drawing, or if a thin twisted thread is used in production, the patterned weave of yarn is predominantly used.

The booklet can be made from:

• Wool;

• Cotton;

• silks;

• Viscose;

• Polyester.

To meet one-component fabric boucle, woven only from wool or cotton, is quite simple, but more often manufacturers add synthetic impurities to the main raw material. This is done with the purpose to add practicality and increase its wear resistance.

Roll fabric is manufactured in industrial enterprises, in the Russian market you can find Turkish, Italian or Chinese cloth. In addition to woven material, the boucle is also handmade, then it is knitted on knitting needles by special schemes or from finished buculent thread.

Main area of use

Bukle - a fabric, the characteristic of which greatly affects the possibilities of its use for certain things. Despite its rich appearance, the clothes from this material are extremely delicate. From the thickened boucle fashion designers sew cozy coats and jackets. In this case, women have great popularity with material with a pattern, it can be a fairly simple drawing created with the help of a multi-colored twisted thread, or a more complex variation with a geometric ornament.

The material has such distinctive features:

• High level of friability;
• The fabric practically does not crumple;
• Has good extensibility;
• Has a clear textured surface.

The beauty of boucle is that manufacturers offer their customers not only muted and dark colors of the canvas, but also quite vivid samples, which due to the combination of fibers of two or more contrasting colors look even more impressive.

For sewing costumes, dresses and sarafans it is customary to use a thin boucle. Mostly these are fabrics that include cotton, silk or a particularly fine wool yarn.

Unexpected application

Synthetic types of boucle are unsuitable for sewing clothes or hats, but this is a wonderful material from which curtains and upholstered furniture are made. The composition of this fabric includes only synthetic components, due to which it is distinguished by its durability.

For the upholstery of sofas, armchairs and pouffes, thick material is used. At the production of the canvas in the beginning weave, and in the second stage it is painted in the desired color. Fabric boucle for curtains and home textiles is very soft, warm and pleasant to the touch, compared with furniture it is more tender and thin. Due to the properties of well draped, this material deserves great respect from designers, because it opens a good space for imagination.

What do I need to know about working with a boucle?

Like any fabric, the booklet has a number of pros and cons. The positive features include the fact that it is easy to work with such material. Friability allows you to hide the flaws of seamstresses, but the fact that the fabric is beautifully laid down, that it is pliable and easy, makes it possible to create things with a complex cut.

At the same time, the cloth boucle (the photo of the cut is above in the article) is very loose. To avoid the unpleasant consequences of this feature of the material, the edges of the parts need to be processed immediately after cutting, besides, the things from the boucle need to be hemmed.

Features of care

Well and at last some councils to owners of a coat or a jacket from a fine fabric under the name букле. A beautiful three-dimensional texture of the material is, of course, its great advantage, but behind it lies a few pitfalls. So, products from a boucle need careful cleaning. It is best to entrust this matter to professionals, at home it is permissible to walk on the surface of the product with a dry brush, otherwise you risk jamming the nap.

For the same reason, it is impossible to iron the clothes, especially on the front side, to smooth the folds and irregularities, and also to refresh the surface wiser it will be a steam generator. Another scourge boucle - tightening. They remain on clothes after resting on a park bench and traveling in crowded public transport, even wearing massive ornaments can ruin a sleeve or collar, forming an inaccurate loop on it. Therefore, the stylists recommend with care to select accessories for clothing from the cloth boucle and wear it extremely accurately.