Chanille Gifts and Throws

Chenille Yarn
For beautiful appearance and softness, chenille yarn has become the choice of fabric designers for many items. The softness and sheen of chenille improves the appearance and hand of thousands of everyday items, including sweaters, outerwear fabrics, upholstery and curtain fabrics, throws and blankets, and area rugs. Chenille is a pile yarn that has been produced commercially since the 1970s. In the early years, the machinery used for commercial production resulted in chenille with variable characteristics. Modern machinery was introduced in Europe and North America in the early 1990s, and today's chenille is a reliable and beautiful yarn that is gaining in popularity CIMA is dedicated to improving industry manufacturing practices through education, to assure easier use of this beautiful yarn. Chenille is a difficult yarn to manufacture, requiring great care in production. Due to the nature of chenille's pile direction, pile completeness (or lack of missing pile), and strength-to-bulk relationship, great care must be taken in converting chenille into final articles. The following information is designed to give an understanding of the chenille manufacturing process and the technical specifications necessary to properly convert chenille yarn into finished goods.

The Nature of Chenille
Chenille yarn consists of short lengths of spun yarn or filament that are held together by two ends of highly twisted fine strong yarn. The short lengths are called the pile and the highly twisted yarns are called the core. Chenille yarn can be made from many different types of fibers and yarns. Most common are cotton, viscose (rayon), acrylic, and polypropylene (olefin). Chenille yarn can be made in many different sizes, ranging from as heavy as Nm 0.2 to as fine as Nm 12.0.

The Manufacturing Process
Chenille yarn is manufactured on a machine that is designed to bring the pile yarns and core yarns together. During manufacture, the pile yarns are wrapped around a short stem of polished metal, called a caliper, through which a blade passes to cut the pile yarns into short lengths. The core yarns are pressed onto the short lengths with a rotating metal wheel. The resulting yarn is then fed onto a traditional ring twisting take up mechanism. In the twisting process, the two ends of core yarn twist and trap the short ends of pile between the core yarns. The size of the caliper determines the diameter of the resulting yarn. The size and number of the pile yarns and how much of them are fed onto the core determines the count of the yarn.

Beauvais Chenille Throwover In Cream	Verdi Chenille Throwover In Coral	Oscar Chenille Throwover In Pale Nutmeg
Beauvais Chenille Throwover In Cream. The Throw measures 140cm by 180cm and is manufactured in England using only the finest chenille fabrics sourced from Belgium and Italy	Verdi Chenille Throwover In Coral. The Throw measures 140cm by 200cm and is manufactured in England using only the finest chenille fabrics sourced from Belgium and Italy.	Oscar Chenille Throwover In Pale Nutmeg. The Throw measures 135cm by 185cm and is manufactured in England using only the finest chenille fabrics sourced from Belgium and Italy.

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