Frote, or terry

Terry cloth is made from 100% cotton, linen, less often - bamboo, soft and pleasant to the touch, has a high hygroscopicity.

The surface of the "terry" consists of pile - loops of the main threads. Pile can be only on one side or on both sides of the canvas. Terry cloth is also with a relief pattern. Terry cloth products are now found in almost every bathroom, because most often this fabric is used to make terry dressing gowns, children's clothes, bath towels.
Fortailoring Terry cloth products must take into account the following features:
- cotton and linen when decating always give shrinkagetherefore, when calculating the required footage, it is necessary to take into account this property of the fabric (the looser the fabric, the stronger it sits);

- "mahra" strongly strews by cuts - before washing the fabric, overcast the open edges of the fabric with a zigzag stitch, or on the overlock;
- better for towels bilateral terry cloth, for bathrobes suitable both double-sided and one-sided;
- first time wash fabric with a small amount of powder, so all impregnations are washed off more easily and the fabric then better absorbs water.
By the way, terry sheets make excellent terry sheets for the summer, and with a whole cloth - the width of the terry cloth is usually large.
Finished products are washed in washing machines using modern powders based on enzymes and surfactants without phosphates, for example, such as Ariel. The temperature for bedding is 60 ° C.Towels are dried straightened, bathrobes on hangers. Terry products require space and good air access, otherwise things will dry poorly and start to sing.
Expert Opinion
The moderator of our site, an engineer-technologist of sewing production, a sewing teacher, Svetlana Khatskevich, gives our readers a few more valuable recommendations on caring for terry products:
To sew terry cloth products are not difficult, allowances in dressing gowns can be left small - 1 cm and overcast them together on the overlock. From personal experience - the fabric is very crumbled into sections, so even allowances inside patch pockets need to be swept over.
To give originality to such dressing gowns and towels, you can decorate them with embroidered machine embroidery or finished satin applications; there are a lot of them on sale now.
Looks good on terry cloth edging from satin ribbons or slanting pegs. The main thing is that they must also be decorated before sewing, so that they do not pull off the edge of the finished thing after washing.
Erase terry things as well as bedding. Only when washing is good to add salt - 1 tbsp. spoon with the top. She will give a terry cloth softness. Better to wash things withLenor.

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Text: Svetlana Khatskevich.
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