Fabric Guide

Canvas is a very strong and durable plain weave. We use canvas fabric for heavy duty workwear trousers and jackets

Before ring spinning takes place, a combing process extracts shorter fibers and aligns the cotton fibers.This allows for a still finer and smoother quality of yarn, further increasing hand feel and durability. Combed ring spun cotton is used for many of our products.

An elastic fiber that is usually blended at low percentages (between 3% and 10% content) to achieve fabrics with stretch properties. The higher the elastane content is, the more a fabric will stretch and adapt to the wearer’s body contours.

A knitted garment (polyester or polycotton) is subjected to a strong brushing process, creating a deep fluffy surface. Used 2-sided to create outdoor fleece and microfleece fabrics, and 1-sided for the inner side of most sweatshirts.

Named because it resembles the skeleton of the fish, the Herringbone’s broken chevron pattern is subtly different and distinctive. In the imprint market we are the only herringbone, offering clients a chance to stand out in a smart and discreet way.

Perhaps the most common pattern, used for t-shirts, sweats,fleeces and similar garment types. Provides some natural stretch and a high level of stability.

The fabric generally associated with “knitting”, used for pullovers, cardigans and similar garments.

The elastomultiester (LYCRA® T400®) is an advanced double fibre originally developed for jeans. It gently stretches and recovers in every direction and creates a premium garment that retains its fit, and moves with the user.

A very fine weave using thinner and smoother yarns,combining excellent flow and drape with the elegance of a fine weave fabric. An excellent fabric for premium formal shirts.

Formal shirts that don’t require ironing and keep wrinkle free while worn. Traditionally achieved by applying a coating onto the fabric.Our ultimate non-iron shirts use a modern steaming technology that achieves superior non-iron properties without any coating

The durability and strength of nylon make it a popular choice for high performance garments such as jackets, allowing for a high degree of breathability and moisture transfer.We uses nylon fabrics for part of its jacket range

We does not use any open end yarn. This is the simplest and most cost efficient spinning method, resulting in the lowest quality of cotton yarns.A very fine weave using thinner and smoother yarns,combiningexcellent flow and drape with the elegance of a fine weave fabric.An excellent fabric for premium formal shirts.

Very popular shirt fabric with characteristic basketweave appearance. The combination of elegant appearance and excellent durability make Oxford fabrics a good choice for shirts used as team uniforms.

Fabric surface is softened by emery covered rollers. This emerizing process breaks the surface of the yarns, creating a softer hand feel. Peached fabrics are used in Russell’s casual twill shirts

Pima cotton uses the fibre of a different species of cotton plant, Gossypium Barbadense. Accounting for only a small proportion of world cotton production it is also known as Extra Long Staple (ELS) cotton. The long fibres of this species can be spun into a superior fine and smooth yarn, used for luxurious high-end fabrics.

A fabric generally used for polo shirts. Most commonly used is the single tuck pique, with its finer micro pique variation using finer yarn and a narrower knitting pattern. The double tuck pique has a characteristic honeycomb pattern with superior durability and a softer hand feel

Polyester is one of the most common and most versatile man-made fibres. Modern polyester fibres combine excellent performance and durability with high wearer comfort and pleasant appearance. Often polyester is blended with cotton to combine the advantages of natural and man-made fibres. Performance garments are often made from 100% polyester (or blended with some elastane), as modern polyester fabrics can provide high degrees of breathability and moisture transfer

Pique fabric created using finer yarns to create a smooth, dense, yet lightweight surface. Ideally suited to embroidery.

Poplin provides a smooth hand feel and an elegant looking surface, making it one of the most common weave types for formal shirt fabrics. It’s tightly woven and provides excellent durability.

Ring spinning integrates shorter fibres into the yarn by adjusting them with the longer yarns. This leads to a smoother yarn with a softer hand feel and higher durability. Russell only uses yarn that is at least ring spun quality or better

A man-made fibre using a natural raw material (woodpulp from sustainably farmed eucalyptus trees), and produced in an environmentally friendly process, Tencel® has superior hand feel, is very skin friendly and provides excellent moisture transfer properties. Tencel® is generally blended with other fibres, Russell uses blends with cotton.

Varying the crossovers of the two yarns, warp and weft, creates diagonal patterns which improve the flow and drape of a garment. Russell uses twill weaves for shirt fabrics, as well as for workwear trousers, the good flow of the fabric combining durability with wearer comfort

Viscose is a type of rayon. Originally known as artificial silk.Viscose is the generalised term for a regenerated manufactured fibre, made from cellulose, obtained by the viscose process.Viscose is a low-cost fabric, which is popular thanks to its myriad of qualities. It can be found in cotton end uses, as well as luxurious velvet’s and taffeta’s.

Two yarns, the warp and the weft, are interlaced, running in 90 degree angles to each other. Different weaving patterns lead to different fabric characteristics