NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL OR SYNTHETIC

Advantages of synthetic material over natural material.

• Synthesic material are harder and more durable then natural material
• They are cheaper and easy to wash
• They easily get dry and don’t shrink
• They are more resistance to destruction by insects and chemical then natural materials
• Dirts doesnot easily adhere to synthetic material

Disadvantages of synthetic material over natural material

• They are very sensitive to heat and can meat at very high temperature

TYPES OF NATURAL MATERIAL

COTTON

This is a soft substances obtain from the seed on a cotton plant. It fibre are flat and twisted as such cotton trucks very little air these fibre are usually coven to produce cloth. Cotton is a good conductors of heat and a good material for warm weather. It absorb moisture quickly, dry quickly and produces a chilling effects. It main disadvantage is that it easily get burned. Nit main advantages is that less care is necessary to cotton material

WOOL

• It obtain from a clipping wooley animal like sheep
• It make up or table or fibres that are covered with a greasy substances so as to absorb water slowly and it looses water slowly
• They is usually airspace between the mesh of wall and so wool is a poor conductor of heat.
• Wool shrinks when washes and some time it harden

SILK

• It made upn from a throad the cover the cocorn of the silk warm.
• It is not a good conductor of heat as cotton by it better than wool.
• It becomes wet easily because it absorb water slowly and can retain much water thus it not good for the production of under wear.

LEATHER

• It made by turning the skin of animals such as shakes elephant
• It good in cold weather because it acts is a wind buvial
• It retains heat and as such it not suitable in hort climate
• It is suitable for belts, bags, shoes, boxes etc

FUR

• It a leather that the hair hasn’t been ion out . it consist of fibre which track large amount of air and their for it very warm and have insulating properties.

LINEN

• It made up from the stem of a flux plant
• The stems are put in water until the fibers seperater
• It a better conductor of heat than cotton and can hold only small amount of moisture of water.
• It a poor material for under wears because it doesn’t retain by very usefull for outer gaiment in hot weather
• Linen is more expensive than cotton but it easy to wash since doesn’t easily pick up dirt and germs

NYLON

• It is an artificial material which has similar properties with these silk
• Nylon is very strong and durable it doesn’t shrink and it need little or no training.
• It doesn’t absorb water and it dry very fast
• It used in making dresses like skints, blouses, night wears etc.

PROPERTIES OF GOOD CLOTHING

• It should be loose
• It should be absorber plant
• It should be durable
• It should be light in weight
• It should be clean and non poisonous or toxic
• It should be sufficiently warm
• It should be non tie in atting and shouldn’t catch fire easily

CARE FOR THE CLOTH

• Wash the cloth regularly with clean water and soap
• After washing makes sure you dry it on dry land or area
• After you iron it
• After you fold and put in a box
• With paper care put camhar in the box