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Corn Fibre (Top)

$7.00 – $54.03

100% Corn Fibre. Also known as Ingeo.

Extremely clean combed top. Pristine, true white in colour. Staple length is 4 to 5 inches.

One of the “new” man-made fibres, and apparently it stands up pretty well to any “green” claims about its manufacture. As a spinning or knitting fibre, it is soft and lustrous, breathes and absorbs moisture well, has good drape and warmth and is easy to care for. Corn is machine washable but should be air or tumble dried only. Do not iron!

Considered a plant or cellulose fibre but neither acid nor fibre reactive dyes will work on corn fibre. Natural dyers could try using techniques used on cotton, such as alum-tannin premordanting, or Aluminum acetate. We do not know yet how corn behaves in an indigo bath.

That being said, when blended with protein fibres, acid dyes will leave the corn alone during dyeing, which makes for some wonderful streaky or heathered effects, depending on how well the fibres are blended.

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