Textile
Fabrics commonly used in the toys industry are:
- Velboa: A soft, medium weight, short-pile textile with a velvety feel.
- Brushed Tricot- A polyester (or less frequently a polyamide) material, often, used as a lining.
- Velour- A closely woven, cut-pile fabric normally made out of cotton, wool or man-made fibre.
- Microfleece- A lightweight, double-sided polyester micro-fibre.
Chemically, all these fabrics are usually polyester, ‘acrylics’ (poly-acrylonitrile), cotton or poly-cotton (a blend of cotton and polyester).