Our lives are filled with so many textile products that are made of cloth or woven fabrics. Life is incomplete without using if you are not believing then just try to spend a complete day in the Sun without using clothes. Actually textile is not always purely functional, we decorate them in one place where we can see the union of different and fashion inside everybody's home. Now lets we talk about home textile in this article.

 

Home Textiles:

Home textile means fabrics and cloths used as a part of home furnishings. That’s why our lives have become more easier and comfortable and give our interiors aesthetic characteristics. It consists of different rang of functional as well as decorative things mainly used in decorating our homes. You can say that home textile is not just any textile within a residence. Such as your fabrics are not home textiles even if you wear them at home. They are especially tied to the interior of the house, aesthetically and functionally. Just have an experience and try to imagine life without them.

 

The cloth or fabric used for home textiles consist of natural and man-made fibers and to fulfill customer’s demand we blend these fibers to make the fabrics stronger.

 

Generally, home textiles are manufactured by knitting, weaving, crocheting, non-woven, and pressing fibers together. Home textile is a very important part of technical textiles like carpets, rugs, curtains, floor covering, cushion covers, towels, napkins, towels, blankets, bedspreads, furnishing fabrics, table linen, pillowcases, bed linen, shower curtain, aprons, and wallpapers.

 

Home Textile includes:

·        Bed linens, sheets, and pillowcases

·        Toilet and kitchen linens like towel, aprons, washcloths, etc

·        Bedding materials such as washcloths, bed sheets, blankets, pillow, comforters

·        Table linens such as table cloths, cloth napkins draperies, and placemats

·        Needle-worked and hand-woven tapestries and different wall hanging materials

 

There are main three things that attract customer’s eyes simultaneously to be exposed for sale.

 

·        Color

·        Design

·        Textile

 

Types of Home Textiles:

Bed linens:

Home textiles are included in bed linens such as:

·               Bedsheets: Bedsheets are more than utilitarian material for bring style and make colorful to the bedroom, reflecting the choice, personality, and moods behaviors.

 

·               Bed skirts: Bed skirts are also known as a dust ruffle, dusters, and petticoats, are designed to hide the box spring. In addition to being functional, bed skirts also introduce an additional color, style, pattern to the bedroom.

 

·               Bedspreads: A bedspread is a beautiful, attractive, and decorative cover for a bed and is similar to a large blanket, which is placed over the bed. Colors, fabrics shapes, and sizes play an important role while selecting the perfect bedspreads.

 

·               Pillow: Pillow is a large cushion used as a support for the head while sleeping posture.

 

·               Pillow cover: Pillow covers are mainly used to cover the pillow and avoid stains and dust accumulation. One of the quickest ways to change the room decoration is to change the pillow cover that creates a fresh new allegiant color scheme.

 

·               Throw: They are a nice home furnishing accessory, are crafted out of exquisite cloth materials, and will be treasured for years to come. Utilized for both functional and ornamental purposes.

 

·               Duvet: It was originated in Europe. It is a flat bag which was traditionally filled with down or feather and it is used on the bed as a blanket.

 

 

·               Comforters: Comforters are generally large and rectangular. It is a type of blanket that is intended to keep the user warm, especially during sleep, although it can also be used as mattress pads.

 

Kitchen Linens:

Kitchen linens include:

 

 

·               Aprons: Apron is an outer side protective garment that covers primarily the front of the body. It may be worn for hygienic reasons as well as to protect fabrics from wear and tear. 

 

·               Potholder: It is generally made up of polyester or P/C blend. It is used to hold hot or cold kitchen vessels just like pans, pots, etc.

 

·         Mittens: Mittens are gloves used in the kitchen to handle the hot vessels. Gloves have separates heaths or openings for all fingers and the thumb.

 

·               Dish clothes: They are made of a wide variety of absorbent fabrics. Dishcloths are used to clean, wipe, and dry dishes.

 

Linens:

 

Linens include:

 

·               Runner: A plain table can be changed into a striking focal point by covering it with beautiful table runners. These are laid across the table rather than lengthwise and their purpose becomes two-fold. They add more detail to the table and also serve as placemats.

 

·               Table skirting: Table skirting is a cloth that forms the border or runs along the edge of the table. That makes a great difference in the presentation for the banquet, brunch, buffet, or business meeting.

 

·               Table mats: Table mat adds convenience, beauty, and effectiveness, wherever they are placed and are very important pieces of table accessories in any home.

 

·               Tea cozy: A tea cozy is designed and produced to snuggle around the teapot while the tea is steeping. Tea cozy keeps the tea piping hot and allows the tea to attain its best flavor.

 

Bathroom linens:

Bathroom linens include:

 

·               Bath towels: Bath towels are the most required bathroom accessory used for bathing. A bath towel is a piece of absorbent fabric whose chief use is for drying the body usually water into the fabric, through direct contact, with either a blotting or rubbing motion. 

 

·               Bath mats: A bath mat is a device used on the floor of a bathroom to provide a warm non-slip surface and it absorbs small amounts of water, just like a towel. Bath mats are smaller than bath rugs and are meant to be kept in front of a  shower, tub, and vanity to serve as an insulator or slip-resistant surface.

 

 

·               Bath rugs: Bathroom rugs are an excellent and inexpensive and way to give new life to any bathroom and allow freedom without going to the extent of putting a fresh coat of paint on the walls. 

 

·               Face towels: Face towels are the smaller version of a bath towel that is used to wipe the face after washing it. Face towels are also used as a handkerchief. The type of face towels available in stores is terry and velour. Cotton terry face towels are woven on a loom and the loops are normally described as “pile” or “loop surfaces.”

 

Floors and floor coverings:

 

It holds furniture items imparts insulation against the earth’s darkness and coolness. It blends all the elements of a room and gets the greatest wear and dust in a room.

In winter it is great to have a carpet in all the rooms in the home except the bathroom and kitchen. However, in the hot weather or summertime, the bare floor appears clean rid cool and soft floor covering gives an aesthetic appeal.

 

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Special Finishes for Functional Home Textiles:

 

Modern finishes can moderate temperature, keep allergies at far, and possess healing qualities too. One of the latest innovations has been developing thermal draperies. These drapes are designed to keep the interiors of a home cool in the summer and warm during winters.

 

Consumers along with fine quality and better designs also demand improved and value-added finishes. Modernized lifestyle requirements, growing awareness, and the latest research and developments have resulted in the development of different, new, and unique finishes for home textiles.

 

A single coat of liquefied rubber polymer, which is fused dry with help of a heated roller, is applied to the same fabric. These fabrics can absorb 50-70 percent of the direct light falling on them thereby providing heat insulation.

 

With the variation of smart textiles, there are smart solutions for sleeping comfortably on beddings that regulate temperature based on the body climate of the individual for a restful sleep. The bedding fiber uses phase changing that material with thermoregulating features.

Paraffin, which is embedded in the crystalline, is spun with a tear-resistant fiber. This functional fiber takes in excess heat and when needed releases it in a micro-climatic condition. The choice of paraffin is responsible for adjusting the temperature of heat absorption and heat dissipation.

 

Another unique technique used by a company for thermoregulation microencapsulates the phase changing materials integrated into duvets, pillows, and mattresses. When the body temperature of the person sleeping declines, the fluids in the capsules change the phase from liquid to solid and dispense heat energy keeping the person warm.

 

By: Sadaf Hanif