Modern Tailor has more than 1000 fabrics for custom shirts and suits. These fabrics come in different thread counts, weaves, patterns, fibers, etc.   It helps to know the elements of a high quality shirt or suit fabric when it comes to creating a great garment.

Here’s a list of the elements to consider in choosing Modern Tailor fabrics:

Type of Fabrics

The majority of our fabrics is 100% cotton. We also have linen and cotton/ polyester blend shirt fabrics.  For suits, jackets, and pants, we have:

✓100% Pure Wool

✓Wool (5% Polyester & 95% wool)

✓Cotton/Lycra

Ply & Thread Count

The ply indicates the thickness of a thread with which the fabric is woven. It is the number of yarns twisted together to make a single thread.

Thread count refers to the number of fabric threads woven together per square inch of fabric.

We recommend thread counts from 60s to 80s if you are looking for a thicker fabric material. If you prefer a more comfortable, silky feel, you may wish to opt for the 200s.

Treatments:

Our non-iron fabrics use liquid ammonia and moist cure finishing treatment. Non-iron fabrics are more resistant to wrinkles.

Meanwhile, easy care fabrics require minimal ironing, have a better drying, and crease recovery properties.

Source

The executive collections are fabrics mainly from Italy and Japan, although some are from other countries.

These 2-ply fabrics usually have a thread count of 80s to 100s.

Wool Fabrics

Our wool fabric collection is categorized into three.

Pure Wool, Wool, and Anglo Saxon Wool.

Suit Fabric Weight

Our suit fabrics weighs around 280gr/mt to 300gr/mt.

(gr/mt = gram per linear meter)

Shrinkage

All our fabrics are pre-shrunk, compliant with ITF (Industrial Textile Fabrics) standards that require cotton fabrics to shrink less than 2%. Any other residual shrinkage is considered in the shirt construction process.

We have included icon guides in our fabrics. Here’s what the icons mean: