Recently, many customers are looking for Tencel fabrics, some of them have found mercerized fabrics from our Internet shops,because the limpness, smooth and drapability,so they think mercerized cotton fabric is same as tencel fabric, However, Tencel fabric and Mercerized fabric are totally different.
The chemical name of tencel is Lyocell, which is made of natural plant fiber and has many excellent properties of natural fiber and synthetic fiber. It is an excellent material.
Mercerizing is a method of processing , normally we will do mercerizing on yarn or greige, if we do mercerizing respectively on yarn or greige, it is called single mercerizing method, if we do twice mercerizing both on yarn and greige, it is called double mercerizing processing.After done mercerizing processing, the fabric would being soft, smooth and verticaly.