Don’t make mistakes when choosing sock material

The material of socks is the soul of a pair of socks, which directly determines the quality of a pair of socks. The sock fabric on the market is generally blended, which is generally blended with a main fiber+auxiliary fiber, so that the advantages of each material can be utilized.
Most of them are cotton+polyester+spandex. Only 100% cotton is rarely used, because cotton fiber has no elasticity. If socks are all made of pure cotton, they will feel like a knotted cloth, and the cotton fiber has poor permeability.
The following describes several fibers commonly used in making socks, and understands the texture properties of fibers so that we can better choose socks:
Cotton:
Most of the socks on the market are mainly made of cotton fiber, the most traditional raw material and the most tested raw material.
The longer the cotton fiber, the better the quality. Island cotton is the best cotton fiber in the world, with an average fiber length of 39 mm and a maximum length of more than 64 mm. Its glossiness is also 50% higher than that of other cotton, and its permeability, water absorption and wear resistance are second to none. Island cotton is produced from the West Indian Sea Island Cotton in the West Indies, especially the cotton produced in Barbados Island, which is the most precious. Moreover, the entire island cotton only accounts for 0.00004% of the world’s cotton production, and its precious degree can be imagined.
A pair of socks made of island cotton is 180rmb, which can be experienced by older brothers and sisters with more money and interest.
Next is Egyptian cotton, then American Pima cotton, then Xinjiang long-staple cotton, and ordinary cotton
The raw material of cotton is on the one hand, and the production process of cotton is also an important factor that affects the feeling of wearing socks. Combed cotton is superior to ordinary cotton
Combed cotton refers to the process of adding delicate combing in the spinning process. The method is to comb short fibers and remove impurities in the cotton to produce smooth yarn, which makes the cotton more flexible, not easy to pilling, and the quality of cotton more stable.
The yarn spun from combed cotton is fine and of good quality. The fabric made of combed cotton yarn has a high quality level in texture, washability and durability.
Generally, socks with a cotton content of more than 75% can become pure cotton socks. Generally, socks with a cotton content of 85% are very high-grade cotton socks.
Wool:
Wool belongs to animal fiber, and its thermal insulation, moisture absorption and permeability are significantly better than cotton fiber. Cotton fiber has good moisture absorption effect, but poor moisture drainage. The price of socks with wool as the main fiber will also be much higher. Wool socks are suitable for sweating.
Cashmere:
Cashmere is a thin and soft layer of hair that grows on the outer skin of the goat and covers the root of the goat’s long hair. It grows when it is cold in winter and gradually falls off when it is warm in spring. Compared with wool and other fibers, it has the characteristics of fine, soft, smooth, waxy, light, warm, soft luster and strong elasticity, which makes up for the shortcomings of thick, coarse, poor elasticity and large shrinkage of wool.
Cashmere socks are better than wool socks, and the price is correspondingly more expensive
Bamboo fiber:
Bamboo fiber is a general expression, which can be divided into bamboo fiber and bamboo pulp fiber. Bamboo fiber is natural fiber, and bamboo pulp fiber is chemical fiber.
Bamboo raw fiber: it retains many advantages of bamboo to the greatest extent: antibacterial (containing a substance called bamboo kun), anti-ultraviolet, water absorption and breathability.
Bamboo pulp fiber: It is regenerated bamboo fiber (bamboo pulp fiber) obtained by chemical methods. Many of the characteristics of bamboo are basically lost, but the cellulose is used.
Modal:
Modal is a regenerated fiber developed by Lenzing Company in Austria and extracted from beech wood. The cost of modal fabric is relatively higher than that of pure cotton.
The biggest difference between Modal and pure cotton is that Modal has better moisture absorption and softness than pure cotton. In terms of making personal clothes, Modal’s materials give a soft and comfortable feeling.
The disadvantage of Modal is that it is not durable. It is easy to lose elasticity after wearing it for a long time.
polyester:
Polyester fiber, also known as polyester. The largest variety of synthetic fiber at present. The biggest advantage of polyester fiber is that it has good wrinkle resistance and shape retention, and has high strength and elastic recovery ability. It is firm and durable, wrinkle-resistant and iron-free, and does not stick to wool.
Compared with natural fiber, it has poor hygroscopicity, poor permeability, easy pilling and easy to generate static electricity.
acrylic fibres:
The performance of acrylic fiber is very similar to wool, so it is called “synthetic wool”. Acrylic fiber has low density, smaller than wool, and good thermal insulation.
Spandex:
Spandex is an elastic fiber. It is blended with other fibers to make the socks elastic, comfortable to wear, soft to feel, and wrinkle-free, and can always maintain the original contour. Generally, the content is 3% – 8%
Leica:
Lycra is also a kind of elastic fiber, which is better than spandex. LYCRA can stretch 4 to 7 times freely, and quickly return to the original length after the external force is released.