There are dozens of different types of fabrics. Along with more or less familiar varieties, and "exotic" options appear all the time. With one of them and it's time to figure out.
What it is?
Tessel is nothing more than the trade name of the matter of lio-cell. His attractive feature is environmental safety. Despite the novelty, Tessel managed to become a full-fledged alternative to silk and cotton. This fabric was developed in the second half of the 1980s by English textiles. In just 10 years, the product passed the way from a completely new product to the world famous brand, and the technologists created by lio-cells were even awarded for contributing to the protection of nature.
Textile brand tensel can be soft or silky, in the second case, it also has a characteristic gloss. The chemical composition in the tissue can vary significantly. If, except tensel, there are no other fibers, the matter will be very expensive. But it is combined with other fabrics not only to reduce the price.
Often they seek to make products to the closer, and therefore add:
- viscose;
- woolen threads;
- cotton;
- bamboo.
Composition
In addition to pure 100% tensel fiber, There are modifications, mixed:
- cotton;
- modal;
- Elastane and other substances.
The additive of synthetic fiber is designed to increase the strength of manufactured products. But in everyday clothes, the widest distribution was still fully natural tensel. Its increased price is justified by the long-term preservation of comfort in the toughest conditions. To be confident in the full nature of the fabric, it is necessary to carefully check the labels, including from the wrong side.
This is especially significant when choosing bed linen, because any synthetics is almost unacceptable.
Manufacture
To make tensels, you have to turn the Australian eucalyptus into the chips, growing in the most pure areas of the continent. They are taken only with special farms, because in the wild there are no security guarantees.
Production Stages:
- Wood is crushed, then treated with an organic solvent;
- The resulting homogeneous mass is posed through the holes of a specific configuration;
- Under the influence of such broaching and carefully selected reagents, threads are formed;
- fiber dried.
In the process of processing, the mass of cellulose practically does not change in a chemical relation. Fiber acquires a valuable property - increased resistance to wear.
This allows you to apply it:
- in car filters;
- as a fabric for various covers;
- in abrasive materials.
It should be noted that eucalyptus raw materials are not the only possible option in the production of tensel. It can be obtained from other types of wood. But they are less practical. A similar fiber is made in Russian factories.
Advantages and disadvantages
The tensel, as follows from the description of its application area, is almost universal. Due to the change in the technological regime, it is possible to make a thin material and a tissue with a bulk texture. At the same time, hazardous substances do not apply in the production process. Subsequently made from tensel items are decomposed in natural conditions, without harming living organisms. Pleasant appearance and saturated colors are created without using synthetic dyes.
An important advantage of tensel is its comfort (and in tactile terms, and due to the unimpeded air penetration). The fabric made of these fibers does not accumulate the charges of static electricity, the appearance of microorganisms in it and colonies is excluded. The tensel is practically not rhat, since both strong and elastic.
If you make clothes from this matter, then it saves heat in cold weather and will even be comfortable in a strong heat. The tensel is distinguished by enviable hygroscopicity, besides, communications are not formed on it. An attractive side of the fabric is another minimum danger of allergic reactions and long-term operation. However, it is necessary to remember high prices for the tensel and that it is a bit "sitting" when used.
Where applies?
The tensel can be used in various fields.
It can be equally easy to do:
- daily clothing;
- festive outfit;
- underwear.
But on this possibility of using tensels do not end. His willingly take manufacturers of terry textiles, sleeping sets of the highest quality, sports equipment. Moreover, the tensel is widely in demand in the production of cables, various ropes. It turns out excellent dressings. However, all the same use of the Australian product is not the most massive, much more often make household textiles.
The stretching blanket from the tensel seems completely weightless, simultaneously provides its softness and tenderness. Under such a covering, people are easier to be hurt. The infection of matter by microscopic ticks is excluded. You can also use pillows with a tonsel filler - they guarantee comfort and health. Such products are equally well suited for adults, and for children, it is characterized by excellent design properties.
Bed linen made from such a fabric deservedly considered a wonderful gift. Even after many years, it retains its original qualities. As for clothing made of tensel, the Council of specialists is one - to use it best in the summer.
Matter is perfect for beautiful female dresses, because it is perfectly draped. In this embodiment, you can reveal all the aesthetic advantages of products.
Comparison with other materials
It is useful to compare tensels with other tissues on the example of bed linen. It is the most stringent requirements that are naturally imposed. And therefore, if you can apply a cloth for this area, then it will be completely safe. First, it is worth understanding that the question of what cloth is better - satin or tensel does not make sense. After all, satin is not some kind of defined fabric, but a way to process it, or rather, the type of interlacing fibers.
In terms of its characteristics, they, however, are quite similar. The difference is mainly with the price of such materials. The tensel is better than even first-class cotton, suitable for people with high skin sensitivity. Foci of bacterial infection appear in it much less. That is why bedwear from Australian matter is recommended to everyone who has money.
Comparison with other tissues shows that tensel:
- Softness is similar to silk;
- By the ratio of strength and service life, it is not inferior to flares;
- as pleasant as flax;
- It effectively warms, like woolen matters.
Features of care
Important! All general recommendations should only be applied in the second place. The most relevant of all the prescriptions that the manufacturer endorsed the label. However, the practice of using eucalyptus matter allows you to give certain advice suitable in most cases. Thus, certain types of material allow for extremely dry cleaning. Even if washing, liquid cleaning agents are preferable to powders.
Water for washing must be a frequent up to 30 degrees. It is best to wash the tonsel not in the car, but manually. If you still erase in a typewriter, you need to use programs without pressing. In any case, when the thing is fissary, it is necessary to dry it. Otherwise, probably defeat mold.
The ironing tensel even the best iron is not recommended. Here will need to use saparisters. If things leave for long-term storage, they must be placed in special packages or covers. It is unacceptable to directly enter the sun's rays, it inevitably leads to fading.
Reviews about Tensale are generally favorable. As always, you need to carefully sort things in color before washing. It is categorically unacceptable to wash the Australian fabric along with the polyester. Their fibers can be adopted with each other. As a result, Tencel is taking (which one should not be with him), loses softness.
Important! To wash it efficiently, but did not damage the tissue, you only need to load the machine half. If you have to iron the products from the Australian fiber, you must first moisten them. This technique allows you to simplify ironing and perform work gentle. Usually it is recommended to iron from the inside, setting the temperature not higher than 150 degrees. Under all recommendations, the long service life is guaranteed.
Bed linen overview from tensel in the video below.