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COTTON VOILE AND LAWN

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Cotton

Cotton Voile is a lightweight, semi-sheer fabric, usually made of 100% cotton or cotton blends including linen or polyester. The term comes from French, and means veil. Because of its light weight. Voile fabric is also used in dressmaking, either in multiple layers or laid over a second material. Voile is very similar to chiffon, which is also used in dressmaking.

Cotton Lawn is slightly crisper than cotton voile. Lawn cloth or lawn is a plain weave textile, originally of linen but now chiefly cotton. Lawn is designed using fine, high count yarns, which results in a silky, untextured feel. The fabric is made using either combed or carded yarns. When lawn is made using combed yarns, with a soft feel and slight lustier. The term lawn is also used in the textile industry to refer to a type of starched crisp finish given to a cloth product. The finish can be applied to a variety of fine fabrics, prints or plain.