This question is what many people ask most when buying wool.
"Boss, is this pilling?" "Why are these clothes pilling after wearing them for two days?"
First of all, pilling is caused by friction on the surface of the fabric, and the fibers become entangled together and form a ball shape.
Including wool, cashmere, acrylic, alpaca, camel hair, etc., this phenomenon will occur.
We mainly explain the knowledge about pilling of wool and cashmere plush. It can be said that as long as the wool fabric is made of wool, it will definitely pill! Therefore, the pilling of wool cannot be judged as a quality problem of wool.
A wool/cashmere sweater with fine yarns and tight worsted spinning will have stronger warmth retention and is more likely to pill; a wool/cashmere sweater with thicker yarns and weaving methods will have relatively better warmth retention. Weak, but less likely to pill.
Doesn't it sound contradictory? The better the fabric and weave, the higher the pilling rate.
If you only use the pilling rate to judge the quality and grade of a sweater, there are still some crude methods you can refer to.
For example:
1. A good wool/cashmere sweater feels soft and has relatively small particles even if it pills;
2. Wool/cashmere sweaters that feel prickly will have relatively large and unsightly pilling particles. In the production of wool, anti-pilling fibers are added to inhibit the pilling of wool, which is a common method.
Now everyone knows that various materials have fixed characteristics of various materials. The material itself is not good or bad, but there is a big difference in quality between the same material.
