Handloom Knowledge

Handloom towels | The pile weave | Turkish Towel or Terry Pile Fabrics  | Introduction                Pile weave fabric is the fabrics which are having piles on their surface. The piles can be on the face side or on the backside or it can be on both sides of the fabric. Example Towel, velvet Warp pile fabric                The fabric in which the piles are formed with the help of an extra warp is a warp pile fabric. In this, the pile warp yarn forms the pile on the surface of the fabric. In this type of fabric, we use two series of warp and one series of the weft. Example Towel, Terry Towel Weft pile fabric.           Generally in the Turkish Towel found a Warp pile weave effect means loop formation at Towel.  They are Warp-pile fabrics and characterised by a series of Loops, Piles formed by the help of an extra series of loose Warp threads, projecting fro...