Stretch Fabric

Summer is now fleetly approaching, and around us, we see the reemergence of out-of-door exertion. The strands are getting more crowded and public pools have exfoliated their downtime tarps. While stores have begun to line their shelves with the newest swimwear fashion. But, whether you know it or not, those swimsuits wouldn’t be near as swish or practical without one important material, stretch fabrics. Stretch fabrics can actually be set up throughout your everyday life, frequently allowing you to go about your day in comfort.

THE PROCESS

In the 1960s, DuPont, a chemical company, developed a new process for manufacturing fabrics that could stretch without damaging their structural integrity.

What DuPont created was stretch knit fabrics, a malleable yet durable fabric that could fluently be distorted, only to return to its original form.

Where stretchable fabrics differ from woven fabrics is the knit pattern that uses amalgamated circles, compared to the grid pattern of filaments that can be set up in woven accouterments.