26.09.24
Launching Tomorrow. The Corduroy.
As summer leaves, our cords arrive. Timing, as they say, is everything. It’s soft, comfy, cosy and goes perfectly with a big jumper. Sign up to our newsletter to be the first to know.
Geeky to Know.
Corduroy is a woven cloth traditionally having a high ratio of weft threads to warp threads.
Thus giving the appearance of a smooth weft faced fabric, usually thick and strong, and mostly made of cotton.
For corduroy the smooth face of the fabric is interrupted by equally spaced ribs, or races, running the length of the piece.
Before the dyeing process these are cut on specialised machines to form ribs of raised pile, they are known as wales which differentiate the character of each corduroy product.
What are wales?
Wales are the raised ridges which make corduroy, corduroy. These are what differentiate the character of each corduroy.
This corduroy we have chosen is a 10 wale.
So that means, it has 10 ridges per inch.
The traditional cord wale is between 10-12.
So we’ve gone with the classic.
Our previous cord was an 8 wale, the jumbo cord.
Needlecord has finer ribs of 14 to 18.
Pincord or Babycord has a finer wale again of 18-22 ribs per inch. This looks more like velvet.
