Compare ranforce and satin

How nice it is when a prod­uct pur­chased from high-qual­i­ty fab­ric is durable and has an excel­lent appear­ance. Thanks to mod­ern tech­nolo­gies, new vari­eties of nat­ur­al mate­ri­als are emerg­ing. Many con­sumers, for exam­ple, are inter­est­ed in which fab­ric is bet­ter: ran­force or satin? But the ques­tion is not entire­ly cor­rect, since these are ways of weav­ing threads, but the com­po­si­tion can be var­ied. Our experts tried to under­stand the fea­tures of the mate­ri­als.

Ranforce: features, properties

Unusu­al prod­uct names, what­ev­er they may be, evoke a more active response from con­sumers. This hap­pened with the ran­force fab­ric, which is noth­ing more than a cal­i­co fab­ric made from nat­ur­al cot­ton fibers.

The main dif­fer­ence between ran­fors and coarse cal­i­co is a more per­fect weave of threads. This is the so-called equal-den­si­ty cal­i­co. The cot­ton threads used in its pro­duc­tion are sub­ject­ed to care­ful and mul­ti-stage pro­cess­ing: they are combed out, cleaned, bleached, pol­ished and, at the last stage, twist­ed.

Often, expen­sive cot­ton is added to these threads, con­sist­ing of long fibers and made in Egypt. Cre­at­ed as a result of a long and com­plex process, the fab­ric is airy, pleas­ant to the touch and at the same time very durable. Coarse cal­i­co, for exam­ple, con­tains 42 threads per square cen­time­ter, and ran­force — about 60.

The main advan­tages of the fab­ric:

1. 
   Soft­ness — the mate­r­i­al is incred­i­bly silky and airy;

2. 
   nat­u­ral­ness - in the pre­vail­ing num­ber of cas­es, man­u­fac­tur­ers sell ran­force, which con­sists entire­ly of nat­ur­al threads. True, some­times 1/5 poly­ester is added to the mate­r­i­al (a syn­thet­ic fab­ric obtained chem­i­cal­ly from hydro­car­bons);

3. 
   Strength – mul­ti-stage pro­cess­ing of the fiber allows to achieve incred­i­ble strength. It is thanks to her that ran­fors is known as a very strong fab­ric that can with­stand many “tri­als”;

4. 
   Dura­bil­i­ty - due to its high strength, ran­force can last for many years with­out los­ing its orig­i­nal qual­i­ties even with active use and fre­quent wash­ing;

5. 
   Hygro­scop­ic­i­ty – ran­force absorbs mois­ture well, so sleep­ing on bed linen made from this fab­ric will be very com­fort­able (with­out the so-called “green­house” effect — even after absorb­ing a sig­nif­i­cant amount of bio­log­i­cal flu­id, the mate­r­i­al will remain dry);

6. 
   hygiene - only safe and at the same time very resis­tant sub­stances are used as dyes for ran­fors. The result is a durable col­or / pat­tern that does not lose its appear­ance even after a long oper­a­tional peri­od;

7. 
   Ease of main­te­nance — it is enough to peri­od­i­cal­ly wash prod­ucts made from ran­fors in the appro­pri­ate tem­per­a­ture regime. Iron­ing the fab­ric will also not cause much trou­ble.

Satin: features, properties

Satin is a mate­r­i­al that has been known on the fab­ric mar­ket for much longer. Belongs to the pre­mi­um class. In the man­u­fac­ture of satin, diag­o­nal­ly inter­laced satin threads are used. Due to the pres­ence of longer weft threads, the front of the fab­ric has a beau­ti­ful sheen that does not dis­ap­pear even after numer­ous wash­es.

Satin is very easy to con­fuse with silk, but, unlike the lat­ter, it is not slip­pery and cold — it is a very warm and del­i­cate mate­r­i­al. Man­u­fac­tur­ers of nat­ur­al fab­rics pro­duce sev­er­al vari­eties of satin:

1. Stan­dard satin (the num­ber of threads does not exceed 130) — used to cre­ate clas­sic under­wear. This cat­e­go­ry also includes can­vas cre­at­ed by emboss­ing, as well as mer­cer­ized (per­fect­ly smooth, with­out spools);

2. Print­ed satin (the num­ber of threads does not exceed 170) — is used main­ly for bed linen sets — the pat­tern is formed due to the use of col­ored threads in the can­vas;

3. Print­ed satin — dif­fers in the same den­si­ty as print­ed satin, but at the same time the orna­ment is applied direct­ly to the fab­ric;

4. Jacquard (the num­ber of threads — 170–220) — has an orig­i­nal con­vex pat­tern;

5. Mako-satin (max­i­mum den­si­ty — up to 220 threads) — expen­sive Egypt­ian cot­ton is used in the man­u­fac­ture, the fab­ric is incred­i­bly durable and airy, sur­pris­ing­ly thin;

6. Stripe satin — dec­o­rat­ed with striped orna­ments — has an attrac­tive look and is often used in lux­u­ry hotel rooms.

The main advan­tages of satin:

1. 
   nat­u­ral­ness — in the man­u­fac­ture of satin, only nat­ur­al threads are used (main­ly cot­ton). The one that is denser goes to the base, the less dense (twist­ed) goes to the front side;

2. 
   Dura­bil­i­ty — well-made satin is able to last for a long time — accord­ing to some reports, it can with­stand from 200 wash­es, while not los­ing its attrac­tive appear­ance;

3. 
   Wrin­kle resis­tance — satin fab­ric prac­ti­cal­ly does not wrin­kle — even if you sleep on linen from such mate­r­i­al for a whole week, it will be enough to shake it slight­ly — the bed will look very neat;

4. 
   Rough reverse side — in con­trast to the glossy, per­fect­ly smooth front side, the reverse side is mat­te and some­what rough, which ensures strong adhe­sion of the mate­r­i­al to the sur­face of the fur­ni­ture or mat­tress.

As for the short­com­ings, we can name, per­haps, one con­di­tion­al one — a high price. It is satin linen that is con­sid­ered the most expen­sive among those made of cot­ton.

Comparative characteristics

As usu­al, we sum up. Our experts con­duct­ed a thor­ough com­par­i­son of the two mate­ri­als and here’s what they came up with.