Donegal TWEED

Coarse, woollen, plain woven tweed fabrics with differently coloured warp and weft yarns having random flecks of other colours

Donegal tweed is a handwoven tweed manufactured in County Donegal in Ireland.
In Donegal, hand-weaving is a skill that has been passed down for centuries through many generations.

Today, most Donegal Tweed comes from the Magee (fashion designers Armani, Ralph Lauren and Henry White use Magee "Donegals") , Molloy & McNutt factory power looms which yield 600 or more yards a day, but there are still about 25 local craftsmen working at home, turning out the all-wool, handwoven fabric that is treasured throughout the world.

Clothing Technology
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SAMPLE:

weight: 1,607 g

height: 7,7 cm

width: 8 cm

GSM: 260,877

ABOUT THE FABRIC

- coarse, woollen, plain woven tweed fabrics with differently coloured warp and weft yarns having random flecks of other colours

- the classic Donegal tweed is a herringbone with different colors of wool woven into the pattern to give it slight highlights and accents
- donegal tweed is used to produce woven products, such as sweaters, coats, sports jackets, suits, costumes

WOVEN FABRIC

-woven fabric (heavy)

- woolen yarns -> bourette (or knop) yarns - are folded yarns containing short, often coloured bunches of fibres or yarn at irregular intervals; the knops may be formed during carding, spinning or folding, fabrics have a strudtured surface

- warp / weft (two types of thread used to create a finished woven product)
- vertical threads in a piece of tweed are called warp, weft - made of spun yarn

PRODUCTION

- operate a complete vertical production process from raw wool, through dying, blending, carding and spinning to a finished multi-colour flecked yarn targeted at the weaving, knitting and craft industries