Boucle fabric is certainly the queen among costume and coats. This material has won the love of millions of fans around the world in less than one century. In many ways, this was made possible thanks to the inimitable Coco Chanel. It was she who brought the boucle to the level of top fabrics, and products from it very quickly moved from fashionable stages to the dressing rooms of such beauties as Audrey Hepburn and Sophia Loren. First Lady of the USA Jacqueline Kennedy and even modern ladies from Buckingham Palace are ardent supporters of warm suits, for tailoring of which tailors use boucle fabric.
Cozy nodules
Bukle is a very recognizable type of material. What is its peculiarity and why is this fabric impossible to confuse with any other? The fact is that the surface of the material is characterized by a heterogeneous, rough surface, as if it was covered with a scattering of small nodules that were created during the manufacturing of a thread called boucle.
Thanks to special technologies, there is a huge selection of boucle on store shelves. The fabric (the description of each of the species requires a detailed deepening into the subject under consideration), can be monophonic, and color, with and without a pattern, have a different thickness and porosity. Its appearance and features strongly depend on how exactly the yarn is made, as well as on the raw materials.
The yarn can be knotted - in this case, the thread in the production is twisted in a special way, the machine folds it into a kind of spools. There is also a split boucle. In this case, the peculiar “fluffiness” of the material is given to the edges of the threads, which appear on the surface of the fabric after it is woven. In the second version, the booklet is less durable than the nodular one, it requires special care and careful operation. Finer types of fabric are woven from twisted yarn.
In any case, whatever the manufacturing method, the boucle fabric is characterized by a high level of breathability and friability, due to which it warms perfectly in bad weather, and therefore it is used most often for sewing demi-season and winter clothes.
From what, how and by whom is it made?
Among inexperienced seamstresses and ordinary buyers of fabrics, there is an opinion that a boucle is an exceptionally coarse coat or costume fabric. But if you seriously ask a question and find out about such material as boucle fabric, what it is and what it happens, you can find out a lot of curious things.
To create a dense costume or coat fabric, plain weave of threads is used. Where there is a need to create a pattern, or if a thin twisted thread is used in the production, patterned weaving of yarn is mainly used.
A boucle can be made from:
Wool
cotton
silks;
viscose;
polyester.
It is quite simple to meet a single-component boucle fabric, woven only from wool or cotton, but increasingly manufacturers add synthetic impurities to the main raw materials. This is done in order to add practicality to matter and increase its wear resistance.
Roll fabric is produced in industrial enterprises, in the Russian market you can find Turkish, Italian or Chinese fabric. In addition to woven material, a boucle is also handmade, then it is knitted with needles or knitting machines according to special patterns or from a finished booklet thread.
Primary Use
Boucle is a fabric whose characteristic greatly affects the possibilities of its use for certain things. Despite its rich appearance, clothing made of this material is extremely delicate. From a thickened boucle, fashion designers sew cozy coats and jackets. Moreover, material with a pattern is very popular among women, it can be a fairly simple pattern created using multi-colored twisted threads, or a more complex variation with a geometric ornament.
The material has such distinctive features:
- high level of friability;
- the fabric practically does not crease;
- has good elongation;
- It has a clear textured surface.
The charm of the booklet is that manufacturers offer their customers not only muffled and dark tones of the canvas, but also rather bright patterns, which, due to the combination of fibers of two or more contrasting colors, look even more impressive.
For tailoring suits, dresses and sarafans, it is customary to use a thin boucle. Mostly these are those fabrics that include cotton, silk or especially thin wool yarn.
Unexpected use
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 such a fabric includes only synthetic components, due to which it is distinguished by its durability.
For the upholstery of sofas, armchairs and poufs, thick material is used. In production, the fabric is first woven, and in the second stage it is dyed in the desired color. Boucle fabric for curtains and home textiles is very soft, warm and pleasant to the touch, in comparison with furniture it is more delicate and thin. Due to the good draping property, this material has earned great respect from designers, because it opens up good scope for imagination.
What you need to know about working with a booklet?
Like any fabric, a booked canvas has a number of pluses and minuses. The positive features include the fact that such material is easy to work with. Looseness allows you to hide the flaws of a seamstress, and the fact that the fabric lies beautifully, that it is supple and light, makes it possible to create things with a complex cut.
At the same time, the boucle fabric (photo of the slice is above in the article) is very loose. To avoid the unpleasant consequences of this feature of the material, the edges of the parts must be processed immediately after cutting, in addition, things from the booklet need to hem the lining.
Care Features
And finally, a few tips for the owners of a coat or jacket made of fine fabric called boucle. The beautiful volumetric texture of the material is, of course, its great advantage, but several pitfalls are hidden behind it. So, products from boucle need gentle cleaning. It is best to entrust this matter to professionals, at home it is permissible to walk along the surface of the product with a dry brush, otherwise you risk taking a pile.
For the same reason, it is impossible to iron clothes, especially on the front side, to smooth wrinkles and bumps, and also to refresh the surface, it would be more reasonable to use a steam generator. Another scourge of Buclé is puffs. They remain on their clothes after relaxing on a park bench and traveling in a crowded public transport, even wearing massive jewelry can ruin a sleeve or collar, forming an inaccurate loop on it. Therefore, stylists recommend that you carefully select accessories for clothes made of boucle fabric and wear them very carefully.