Textile Innovation 1

Lecture 1

Fibre Sources

In this lecture, I was really interesting in various fibre. This section was told about where is fibre comes from. It is important for me to know where is the fibre comes from and how does people make fibre out of natural plant. I was focus on natural, sustainable and recycled fibre sources in my design project this term. However, my knowledge of fibre and fabric was poor before I took this class. I was glad that I choose this class. Because after this lecture, I knew more about fabric. For example, how they comes out and how they has been developed . Now I can recognize some kinds of fabric. As for me, this is a great development to my ability of knit .
The point of natural sources, fibre come from plant. This is a traditional way to produce healthy and sustainable fabric for human daily needs. For example, wool come from lamb or sheep that thermal quality and organic also recycled. Also, from this lecture, It introduced those commercial fibre all have useful and valuable function. Like the super wool which mix of merino wool and polyester can be use for sport wear. It can keep people body warm and dry. Furthermore, wool can be separate into fine wool and waste wool. Waste wool also can produced into yarn for other function. Wool is a really nice sustainable fibre yarn. In this section, I knew about how the fibre made out and what the function of different yarn.