Today it was back to work. I got to work and was asked to arrange the samples that the company gets from the three manufactures that it uses right now. These are fabric swatches that are about five inches by seven inches and show the types of material that the manufacture comes out with the ones most used by the company that I am interning for right now are as follows.
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| tape yarn swatch |
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| Tape yarn swatch |
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| space dye yarn swatch |
Slub yarns which are a material that has thick and thin areas in the material and are then woven together. Tape yarns are yarns that are rough to the touch (rough hand) and the look of the actual yarns almost looks like a ribbon. Fuzzy is a fabric with...wait for it.... fuzzy yarns! Novelty fabrics are fabrics with something very distinctive such as a yarn or something. Space dyed fabric is a fabric that has the different colors going in a horizontal direction. Finally there are your Basic Blends which are fabrics sewn out of 100% cotton and such that are used in every day jersey and sweaters.
The reason that the company has to organize these swatches in a manner like this has to do with the cost. They estimate that each sweater weighs a pound and so when buying the raw material for the sweaters they have to get it by the pound, so when the manufacture sends these samples they also put how much per pound the fabric is. Based on this company’s consumer market they estimate that it would not be profitable to buy any fabric costing more than $3.50 per pound so they throw out any fabric or stitch that costs more than that. Now here are some pictures of the different fabrics and by the way if the fabric was to expensive for them to keep they let me have the swatches!! How COOL is that!!!
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