Mercerised cotton
finishing process for thread, most often cotton / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mercerisation is a textile finishing treatment for cellulose fabric and yarn. It is mainly used for cotton and flax. The process changes the properties of the materials: They can be colored more easily, they withstand tearing better, and the fabric will shrink less, when washed. Fabrics treated that way also have a luster which make them resemble silk in some ways.
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Sometimes, cotton treated that way is called Fil d'écosse. Sometimes wool treated in the Mercosett process is also called mercerised.
The process of mercerisation is long, and relatively costly. For this reason, only higher quality textiles are treated that way.