Friday, June 12, 2015

FAQ: How Power Rip® Can Be Best Treated?

We would like to introduce some frequently-asked-questions about Power Rip®.

Power Rip would be sold only to the major yacht manufacturers of Japan, professionals in cutting, sewing and assembling fabrics which are not very easy to handle. 

Since we began selling the fabric to individual customers, some questions, we hadn't had to know the answers, started to flow in. 
Then, with great help of our long-term regular customers, little by little, we learnt about how to handle the fabrics after the fabrics left our hands.


Recently we were asked about what are the best way to sew Power Rip.

One of our regular customers, handling Power Rip, gave us tips!

Sewing yarn thickness : 60~75 dTex

Needle thickness : 0.66~0.76 mm (diameter)

Adhesive material : double-face tape 

Sewing  : zigzag stitch 



Apparently, double-face tape can be a useful material when used in reinforcement of spots.

One of our customer make bags out of Power Rip, and double-face tape is used to layer Power Rip to add strength to the areas such as lace holes and bottoms.

Because of the nature of the fabric, Power Rip can be a little tricky when sewing.

Above information is one we received from a credible source with a long experience handling Power Rip.

So we are hoping this will help some of our customers in creating an original art piece!

We would also like to explain the nature of Power Rip and what it does when treated undesirably. 

Power Rip is resin-coated.
The coating material, resin, can transfer color pigments freely. 

That means the color pigments in the polyester fabric can be moved out from the fabric through the resin coat, and it can color the surface attached to the fabric.

Hence, we wouldn't recommend the fabric be used in a way it attached to body surface, unless the fabric is layered with different fabric to prevent color staining, although we have a regular customer who produce very nice bags with this fabric...!

We appreciate greatly for your comment and questions, so please feel  free to drop a line for us!!