THE LINEN USED IN THE GUEST room will directly affect the guest's experience of the hotel. Hotel linen is a general term for cotton goods, including cloth
(sheets, duvet covers, pillowcases), core (quilt core, pillow core), towel (face towel, bath towel, floor towel). How to choose the right cloth to enhance the experience
of guests, we need to start from the following aspects:
Cloth mainly includes bed sheets, quilt covers, pillowcases, and direct contact with the skin of the body, directly affecting the guest's sleep and accommodation
experience, the right fabric should be soft and skin-friendly, but also smooth and beautiful and do not feel cold in winter, summer does not feel hot, but also take into
account the service life, cost-effective and match with the hotel positioning. The selection of hotel textiles seems to be a complex work, in fact, there are rules to
follow, as long as you understand the basic elements such as material composition, yarn density, fabric organization and cotton yarn quality, you can better control
the quality of hotel cotton fabrics.
CHOICE OF MATERIAL
Natural fibers (cotton, linen, silk, etc.)
Chemical fiber (synthetic fiber, such as polyester, acrylic, etc.; Regenerated red vitamin, such as viscose, wood pulp fiber, etc.).
Cotton fiber conforms to various comprehensive indicators, such as moisture absorption, softness, strength, etc., suitable for hotel textile fabrics. In order to take
into account comfort and fastness, some polyester content can be appropriately added to enhance the strength of the fabric, and the content of polyester should
be 20% to 50%.
YARN COUN,DENSITY SELECTION
Yarn count represents the thickness of the warp and weft yarn, which is an important index to determine the softness and gloss of the fabric.
YARNN COUNT:
Coarse yarn (below 18s),
Medium yarn (19s~29s),
Fine count yarn (30s~60s),
Ultra-fine yarn (60s or more).
The higher the yarn count and the finer the cotton yarn, the softer the feel and the better the gloss. The critical value of fine yarn and super-fine yarn is 60s, so 60s
can be regarded as an important reference index. By comparison, the fabric woven with 60s yarn has good luster, moderate thickness, fastness and comfort, as
well as winter and summer body feeling, which is a reasonable choice for the hotel. At the same time, it can also be adjusted according to this standard and the
hotel's own grade to select some ultra-fine yarn of 60s and above
DENSITY REPRESENTS THE NUMBER OF STRANDS OF WARP AND WEFT YARN
Generally speaking, a reasonable allocation of warp and weft density should meet two requirements.
A. The strength of fabric warp and weft should be close. In the case of the same organization, the fabric tightness of different yarn counts should be close. Therefore
as the yarn count increases, the density should be increased accordingly, such as :40sx40s 140x120 and 60sx40s173x120
B, the total fabric tightness should take into account the fastness and feel of the fabric, in line with the hotel commonly used all kinds of yarn, density reasonable ratio
FABRIC SELECTION
Fabric organization represents the interweaving method of warp and weft yarn, which is an important index affecting the softness and gloss of fabric. A fabric of plain,
twill, satin, or jacquard weave. Hotel fabrics are used more plain, satin, jacquard three kinds of organization.
A, plain weave warp, weft interweaving points, fabric tight. The fastness is good, the general density is low, the cost is relatively cheap, the disadvantage is that the
feel is hard, the luster is slightly poor;
B, satin weave weave less, feel soft, good luster, generally high density, moderate cost;
C, jacquard organization has small jacquard, large jacquard points, the cost is relatively high, but decorative strong, can meet the personalized needs of the hotel.
COTTON YARN QUALITY SELECTION
A, cotton yarn quality according to the spinning process: combed, semi-combed, combed cotton yarn. Combed cotton yarn is combed by the carding machine several
times, remove short fibers, impurities, leaving a more uniform long fiber cotton yarn, cotton fibers arranged neatly, smooth surface. Therefore, the fabric woven with
combed cotton yarn has good feel, luster and strength, followed by semi-combed and general combed.
B, cotton yarn quality according to the fiber length: long cashmere cotton, fine cashmere cotton, coarse cashmere cotton.
· Long staple cotton has fine and long fibers, generally more than 33mm in length, suitable for spinning high-count yarn over 60s. The fabric woven with this fiber
has uniform dry, smooth surface and strong strength.
· The fiber length of fine cashmere cotton is medium, the general length is 25mm~33mm, it is appropriate to spin cotton yarn below 60s, but there is a gap between
various indicators and long staple cotton.
· The fiber of coarse cashmere cotton is short and thick, the general length is less than 23mm, suitable for the production of thick fabric, not suitable for the production
of cotton goods.
We can choose combed long staple cotton, combed fine staple cotton, semi-combed fine staple cotton, and combed fine staple cotton according to their own needs.
In summary, through the analysis of several main indicators, it is concluded that pure cotton, 60s, satin and combed fine cashmere cotton are relatively good comprehensive
indicators. It is generally believed that the higher the number of yarn counts, the better for hotels with high grade, which has certain misunderstandings. Generally speaking,
the higher the yarn count, the softer the fabric, the better the luster, however, the higher the yarn count is generally to match the high density, such fabric is dense, thin,
slippery when you first enter the bed in winter, there is a cool feeling, and the human body is not the same in winter and summer, summer needs smooth and cool, winter
needs thick and warm. Therefore, the choice of reasonable yarn count is the most important, more than 80s fabric, its cost performance will be reduced.