10 Best Fabrics for Wedding Dresses
- February 11, 2021
The choice of the wedding dress is one of the most exciting tasks in a woman’s life. Choosing a beautiful design today is a complicated task due to the wide range of bridal fabrics and designs that you can find.
Therefore, you must start with the essentials:
“What fabric to choose for my wedding dress?”
You must know the windows of each of the fabrics and see if it favors your type of figure.
A wedding dress fabric must adapt, above all, to the characteristics of your body and the design that you want to use on your big day, it is the key to making the dream you have always had of your wedding dress come true.
These are the 10 fabrics most used by brides in a ceremony.
Chiffon
The most attractive thing about this fabric for a wedding dress is its drape. It is used for weaving silk wedding dresses, although they also exist with other compositions.
Chiffon fabric is widely used in wedding dresses with the layered design, due to the drape it gives to the garment.
Falla
This bridal gown fabric is often used for fitted mermaid dresses.
Its peculiarity is that it is a fabric for a wedding dress with a rigid and firm texture, it has a lot of drape.
Tulle
Do you know someone who does not associate this fabric with a girlfriend?
The tulle with an illusion surname for being the emblematic fabric in a bride’s veil. But this soft fabric is not only used for veils, but also to make dresses.
Its main characteristic is that it is very, very light and transparent. Its fabric is made in the form of a net. We recommend that you use this fabric for a wedding dress if you are layering to create ruffles, puffed sleeves or also to create transparencies.
It is a tremendously versatile wedding dress fabric and you can combine them with any other fabric, you will not be disappointed with the result.
Brocade
This wedding dress fabric is a classic. It is a highly armed wedding dress fabric that gives the dress a lot of consistency.
This fabric is made of silk that they combine with thicker threads, they can be the same color as silk or they are also usually combined in gold.
Crepe
The crepe fabric for bridal is distinguished by being a smooth fabric with a lot of drape. The latter is an essential requirement for a wedding dress to favor the silhouette, especially in straight designs.
This fabric has the peculiarity that on the one hand it is opaque and on the other shiny, which makes it easier for the designer to use it on both sides, matching creation and giving reins to creativity.
Its touch is extremely soft, on the other hand, the shine that this fabric for wedding dresses gives off is spectacular. Another peculiarity is that it does not wrinkle.
Crepe fabric is also widely used for long party dresses in Haute Couture. Javier Barrio has designed a creation in the purest Hollywood style with wonderful creativity, a unique crepe wedding dress:
The Jackie design in honor of the glamorous Mrs. Kennedy:
Lace
Lace is a fabric for wedding dresses made of silk threads, it can also be made of cotton, linen, gold, silver, braided or linked by making openwork of different designs. They are already ornate dresses by the richness of this fabric.
This fabric for a wedding dress dress gives the option of playing with transparencies, being able to use areas such as neckline or back in a more suggestive way.
Organza
This fabric will be familiar to you because it is widely used in classic first communion dresses.
It is a transparent wedding dress fabric with a very rigid texture.
It is usually used to shape the sleeves and waist and is usually embroidered or accompanied by other decorations.
Silk or satin
One of the most used fabrics for wedding dresses. Either alone or combined with others. Silk is brighter than Satin, which is slightly more matte.
Silk as we know is a thousand-year-old fabric of Chinese origin, it is extracted from the cocoons of silkworms. It is a fabric that has a lot of drape. It is widely used to make long Haute Couture party dresses.
Javier Barrio, Galician Haute Caouture designer, opts for this fabric for some of his wedding dresses. Both in silk and satin fabrics:
Silk chiffon
It is a very, very light fabric for a wedding dress. Silk chiffon has low density and its appearance is transparent, hence it is used only for areas of the dress or also, for summer wedding dresses.
Georgette
It is a fabric with a very fine and light consistency, created in natural silk.
This wedding dress fabric can also be embroidered. Georgette is a bit translucent and unlike chiffon, it is a little thicker and more opaque. The great peculiarity of this fabric for wedding dress is that it is elastic.
