Novelty yarns: mainly refers to Novelty Yarn or Fancy yarns, whose yarn
structure, cross-section, color and appearance are different from normal yarns.
According to the different characteristics of raw material composition,
appearance, handfeel and thread density, various types of fancy yarns can form a
variety of styles of products, which are widely used in the fields of clothing,
decorative fabrics and hand knitting threads. Commonly used fancy yarns are as
follows.
① Bulky Yarn ( Bulky Yarn) : Using the different thermal contraction of
fibers, the blended yarn will be placed in steam, hot air or boiling water
treatment, when the high contraction rate of fibers produce a larger
contraction, located in the center of the yarn, and mixed together with the low
contraction of fibers due to small contraction, was squeezed on the surface of
the yarn to form a circle, so as to get deformed yarn, such as the common
acrylic bulky yarn. The fabric composed of bulky yarn is soft, fluffy and has a
good imitation of wool.
② Core yarn ( Composite Yarn or Core - spun Yarn): a fiber ( such as
chemical fiber filament ) as the core, and in the core around the wrap or wrap
another fiber ( such as natural fibers ) spinning. Different properties of fiber
materials spun into core yarn, can achieve more superior performance than a
single fiber. Such as the use of spandex filament as the core yarn, cotton
fibers as the core yarn spandex core yarn, used to make stretch denim, stretch
corduroy, etc..
③ Metal Yarn: Made of metal products such as gold foil, silver foil or
polyester film. The fabric has bright appearance and strong decoration.
④ Fancy yarns: Yarns with special appearance, spun by special technology.
Such as pimple yarn ( Big - belly Yarn), spiral flower thread ( Corkscrew
Thread), bamboo yarn ( Slub Yarn), terry yarn ( Loop Yarn), knot yarn ( Knot
Yarn), chenille yarn ( Chenille Yarn), etc.. The fabric composed of fancy yarn
has rich appearance, strong three-dimensional sense, and soft hand feeling. Such
as knotted yarn fabric surface exists many knots, so that the fabric surface
style rough.
⑤ Mesh yarn: Chemical fiber is formed by letting some of the filaments hug
together when spinning is not yet formed. This kind of yarn has soft handfeel
and good imitation wool effect.