Batiste (from fr. Batiste ) is a thin, translucent linen or cotton fabric of plain weave [1] , produced from twisted yarn of high numbers (the thinnest). Baptiste is produced bleached, mercerized , one-colored and printed. Used for lingerie, summer dresses, blouses, as well as a semi-finished product for making tracing paper .
It is produced mainly in Northern France and Belgium, from the finest linen yarn. The flax culture itself is surrounded with special cares, namely: the entire sown field is packed with pegs with cross slats so that a grid is formed which, protecting the plant from strong wind and rain, contributes to the formation of a particularly thin and strong fiber - the so-called lin ram ó .
The best cambric from the environs of Valenciennes and Cambrai is made from hand-woven yarn, as the factory does not have that gloss, which is one of the main qualities of a good cambric; it can also be paper - significantly inferior to the linen in the fortress.
It is believed that the making of cambric was first started in the 13th century in Flanders by a certain Mr. Baptiste from Cambrai, after whose name, according to one hypothesis, the fabric itself was named in French, Russian and a number of other languages (in some languages, including English, the name of the fabric goes back to the toponym Cambrai - cambric , etc.).
Properties
Batiste has the following characteristics and properties: density, lightness, strength, breathability, hygroscopicity, hypoallergenic.
Notes
- ↑ Ganeshin S. А. , Mendeleev D. I. Cloth // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extras). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Literature
- Baptiste / / Bari - Bracelet. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1970. - ( Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 t.] / Ch. Ed. AM Prokhorov ; 1969-1978, v. 3).
- Baptiste / / Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 t. (82 t. And 4 extra.). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Baptiste // A Brief Encyclopedia of the Household / ed. I.M. Skvortsov et al. - M .: State Scientific Publishing House "Big Soviet Encyclopedia" - 1959.