Ventile Brochure

The secret of Ventile’s success lies in our attention to detail. We begin by searching the world for the highest grade, extra-long staple cotton. In fact, only the very best of the world’s cotton crop meets our exacting standards, and it is with this small fraction that we make Ventile. Fibres are carefully spun to provide an even, uniform yarn where individual fi bres fall neatly into line. The spinning results in a streamlined yarn, essential for giving Ventile its unique waterproof characteristics and is only possible with high grade, extra-long staple cotton. Resulting yarns are then doubled to further increase its strength. This yarn is wound onto cones for ease of handling. The strands from over 700 cones are then wound onto a multiple number of back beams for sizing – a natural treatment process which prepares the threads for compressive weaving. During this sizing process all back beams combine to make the main warp (or single weavers beam) ready for weaving. Over 15,000 individual strands of yarn are then threaded onto the loom, a process which takes precision and many man hours to complete. Ventile is always carefully woven with strict controls and continuously maintained, especially in regard to the rate of take-o ff to ensure a constant number of picks (weft) being woven into the fabric. Careful inspection of Ventile fabrics follows under the trained eyes of our textiles experts who run loom state fabric across high intensity light machine to expose potential faults. Following this inspection, which is always done by hand, only 100% ‘A’-grade fabric is sent o ff for dyeing and fi nishing. Due to the incredibly dense structure of the fabric, Ventile is pre-treated and dyed using a speci fi c continuous process to ensure the requirement rate of dry penetration. After dyeing, fabrics are treated with specially developed durable water repellency treatments for increased performance. T H E M A K I N G O F