Cotton Yarns

Superior quality fibre, neat spinning, durability, colour fastness, requisite elasticity, etc., are some of the features that competently market our range of our knitting yarns, cotton yarns, cotton combed yarns in the domestic as well as international marketplace. Meeting the stringent application requirements of varied industries, these combed knitting yarns comply with the requisite industrial standards. Available in multiple packaging options these knitting yarns cater to specific needs of textile, garment, weaving and many          other industries.

Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibers, suitable for use in the production of textiles, sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving and ropemaking. Yarn is any fiber used to construct a fabric.

Natural Fibers
The most common natural fiber is cotton, which is typically spun into fine yarn for mechanical weaving or knitting into cloth.

Synthetic Fibers
A number of synthetic materials are also commonly made into yarn, chiefly acrylic. All-acrylic yarns are available, as are wool-acrylic blends in various proportions. Some other synthetics are available as well; yarn designed for use in socks frequently contains a small percentage of nylon, and numerous specialty yarns exist.

Yarn is manufactured by either a spinning or air texturizing process. Yarn manufacturing was one of the very first processes that was industrialized.

Construction
Yarn used for fabric manufacture is made by spinning short lengths of various types of fibers. Synthetic fibers which have high strength, artificial lustre, and fire retardant qualities are blended with natural fibers which have good water absorbance and skin comforting qualities, in different proportions to manufacture yarn for fabric. The most widely used blends are cotton-polyester fiber blends.

Yarns are made up of any number of plies, each ply being a single spun yarn. These single plys of yarn are twisted in the opposite direction (plied) together to make a thicker yarn.

In some cases, thread may be monofilament, or made of a single fiber

Measurement
Yarn quantities are usually measured by weight. These measurements are taken at a standard temperature and humidity, because yarn can absorb moisture from the air.

There are several thicknesses of yarn, also referred to as weight. There is an industry-standard system for measuring this, numbering the weights from 1 (finest) to 5 (heaviest), but it is not precise and tends to be subjective. There are also names for the various weights of yarn, but they are also subjective. From finest to thickest, they are called lace, fingering, sock, sport, double-knit (or DK), worsted, aran, bulky, and super-bulky. This is also not precise; fiber artists disagree about where on the continuum each lies, and the precise relationships between the sizes.

A more precise measurement of yarn weight, often used by weavers, is wraps per inch (wpi). The yarn is wrapped snugly around a ruler and the number of wraps that fit in an inch are counted.

Labels on yarn for handcrafts often include information on gauge, known in the UK as tension, which is a measurement of how many stitches and rows are produced per inch or per centimeter on a specified size of knitting needle or crochet hook.

In Europe textile engineers often use the unit tex, which is the weight in grams of a kilometer of yarn, or decitex, which is a finer measurement corresponding to the weight in grams of 10 kilometers of yarn. Many other units have been used over time by different industries.

Uses
Yarn can be used in many ways to produce fabric or designs on fabric. Weaving, knitting, crochet, crewel embroidery are some forms of hand and machine fabrication that are being used.

Natural fibers such as these have the advantage of being slightly elastic and very breathable, while trapping a great deal of air, making for a fairly warm fabric