When you buy bedding, see the fabric is all cotton, but it reveals the luster of silk, this fabric should be made of long staple cotton. With the improvement of people's living standards, the quality requirements of bed products are becoming higher and higher. As we all know, pure cotton is good, in fact, pure cotton there are cotton in the best "long staple cotton".

What is long staple cotton

Long staple cotton is named for its long fiber, and long staple cotton is also known as island cotton, which is also one of the cotton materials. Under the same heat conditions, the growth period of long-staple cotton is longer than the general cotton for 10 to 15 days, because of the long sunshine time, high maturity, long cotton wool, good feel, and the quality is far better than ordinary cotton.

Long staple cotton features

The most prominent difference between long staple cotton and general cotton is the fiber length: the best length of general cotton is within 31 mm, long staple cotton is 33 ~ 39 mm, and the longest can be up to 64 mm, which is the key material of top high-grade home textiles and clothing.

Types of long staple cotton

Two kinds of long-staple cotton are commonly used: Xinjiang long-staple cotton and Egypt long-staple cotton; Egypt long staple cotton is the best grade of long staple cotton, known as "white gold". Egypt long staple cotton is divided into GIZA45, GIZA70, GIZA86, etc. GIZA70 has the largest output and is the mainstream variety in the market. The GIZA 45 is the best in terms of length, physical indicators and so on, but the production is very small.

Long staple cotton has a very high comfort and "texture", made of bed with these characteristics:

More warm: the fiber is soft and long, the heat is fast, and the warmth is strong.

Softer: fineness and strength are higher than ordinary cotton, and the softness is better.

Better quality: The growth cycle is 10 to 15 days longer than ordinary cotton, better quality.

Smoother: Good drape, silky smooth.

Fastness: fabric color fastness is high, long wash will not fade.

More durable: wear-resistant and durable, good wrinkle resistance, not easy to pilling.

More breathable: good permeability and moisture removal, 5 times the air permeability of ordinary fabric.

Long staple cotton fabric discrimination

Some businesses may cheat users, after all, the long-staple cotton fabric ingredients are also marked "100% cotton", and there is no particularity. But master the following knowledge, can be a good judge of true or false oh.

The ingredient label is marked as 100% cotton, and the method of identifying cotton can also be used to identify whether it is pure cotton.

Long staple cotton will only be used for high density fabrics and high-end home textiles.

Long staple cotton will have a silky smoothness that ordinary cotton does not.

Long staple cotton feels better than ordinary cotton.

All of the above is required.

Of course, after cotton is mercerized, it may also achieve a silky smooth effect, but long staple cotton has a natural luster and is also the first material of mercerized cotton.

What is mercerization?

Mercerization means that the cotton is treated with concentrated caustic soda solution, the tension is applied, the diameter of the cotton fiber is enlarged and rounded, the original wrinkles on the surface are disappeared, the reflected light intensity is increased, and the fabric shows a silky luster. Double mercerizing is done for added effect. Double mercerization is the yarn mercerization, the yarn is mercerized again after making the fabric.