Piqué

Pique (French pique, engl. Guilting, Marseille ) is a mostly treeless woolen fabric with alternating raised and depressed places. It seems like quilted ( piqué ) and belongs to the double fabrics.

When weaving two superimposed chains are used, each of which gets its own bullet. The combination of the two chains takes place in that time, individual threads of a chain moved to the other and are bound by the wefts with this chain. For the top fabric, the right side or the reason to use finer yarn and twice as many threads per centimeter as for the bottom, called the feed. The points or lines, in which the two webs are connected to each other, appear between the remaining recessed portions.

The piqués are either completely white or printed monochrome and with different patterns, or gridded, striped or paperback by different colored weft and warp threads and to the west, petticoats, leisure suits, summer dresses, Vorhemdchen and especially related to patterned bedspreads. Polo shirts are always made cotton pique.

The typical example in society clothes are the elements in the white tails: the Frackweste, the associated white bow tie and the shirt-front on the dress shirt. Occasionally, dress shirts with shirtfront Piqué be worn instead of pleated tuxedo.

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