Huckaback fabric or Huck is a type of
toweling cloth
Textile is an umbrella term that includes various fiber-based materials, including fibers, yarns, filaments, threads, different fabric types, etc. At first, the word "textiles" only referred to woven fabrics. However, weaving is not the ...
with a bird's eye or honeycomb pattern. It is a loosely
woven
Woven fabric is any textile formed by weaving. Woven fabrics are often created on a loom, and made of many threads woven on a warp and a weft. Technically, a woven fabric is any fabric made by interlacing two or more threads at right angles to on ...
fabric made of
cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus ''Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose, and can contain minor perce ...
or
linen
Linen () is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant.
Linen is very strong, absorbent, and dries faster than cotton. Because of these properties, linen is comfortable to wear in hot weather and is valued for use in garments. It also ...
with Huckaback weave.
Structure
The fabric has small geometric patterns and extra texture. It has a plain, rough
pebble
A pebble is a clast of rock with a particle size of based on the Udden-Wentworth scale of sedimentology. Pebbles are generally considered larger than granules ( in diameter) and smaller than cobbles ( in diameter). A rock made predominant ...
d surface.
Huckaback
Blended Huck towels are made by keeping warp in cotton and weft in linen. Huckaback is a weave in which the weft yarns are of a relatively lower count, and they are loosely
twisted (softly
spun
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), making a floating and absorbing weave.
It is woven on a
dobby loom
A dobby loom, or dobbie loom, is a type of floor loom that controls all the warp threads using a device called a dobby.
Dobbies can produce more complex fabric designs than tappet looms but are limited in comparison to Jacquard looms.
Dobby lo ...
that has a mechanism for weaving geometric patterns. The Huck cloth has good absorbency hence suitable for
towels
A towel is a piece of absorbent cloth or paper used for drying or wiping a surface. Towels draw moisture through direct contact.
In households, several types of towels are used, such as hand towels, bath towels, and kitchen towels.
Paper towels ...
.
Swedish weave
Huck weave is also called Swedish weave that was famous in 1940.
Use
Terry, the piled fabrics, and Huck are preferred cloths for towels.
See also
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Crash (fabric)
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Dobby (cloth)
Dobby, or dobbie, is a woven fabric produced on the dobby loom, characterised by small geometric patterns and extra texture in the cloth. The warp and weft threads may be the same colour or different. Satin threads are particularly effective in t ...
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Honeycomb structure
Honeycomb structures are natural or man-made Structure, structures that have the geometry of a honeycomb to allow the minimization of the amount of used material to reach minimal weight and minimal Material costs, material cost. The geometry of ...
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Towel
A towel is a piece of absorbent cloth or paper used for drying or wiping a surface. Towels draw moisture through direct contact.
In households, several types of towels are used, such as hand towels, bath towels, and kitchen towels.
Paper towels ...
References
Woven fabrics
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