FabStitch Guides
Practical guides on fabric weight, composition, weaves, and choosing materials for shirts, dresses, activewear, and home textiles — written to support better FabStitch sourcing decisions.
Fiber & Material
Both are sheer high-twist fabrics, but their surface, weight and intended silhouettes are not identical.
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The denim collection separates weight, fibre, finishing and heritage concepts instead of treating denim as one product.
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How composition, weight and intended use separate the five linen-led products in the SS 27 collection.
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Cotton and linen are both plant fibres, but they handle, crease and drape differently. Choose from the construction and the product, not from a preference for one fibre name.
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Silk is a fibre. Satin is a weave that can be made from silk or from other filaments. Mixing the two words is how teams order the wrong cloth.
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