Horse Hair Fabric

What Horse Hair Fabric Is

The original Apparel Search record states the construction plainly, and it is worth quoting because it is the whole definition: horse hair fabric is made with cotton yarn or polyester fibre as warp and natural horse tail hair going cross as weft in plain weave. The warp threads run lengthwise and hold the cloth together; the weft is the horse tail hair itself, laid across the warp in a plain one-over-one weave. Nothing else in the tailoring cupboard is built quite this way, and the construction explains every property tailors value in the cloth.

Horse tail hair is long, smooth, springy and naturally resilient. Woven as weft, it gives the canvas a firm, springy hand that resists creasing and springs back after bending - the quality tailors call liveliness. A jacket chest cut from horse hair canvas holds its shape through a day of sitting, standing and reaching, where a softer interlining would collapse and wrinkle. The hair also breathes: the open plain weave and the natural fibre let air and moisture pass, so a canvassed jacket stays comfortable in a way a fused, glued interlining cannot match. That combination of shape and breathability is why the material has survived a century of cheaper substitutes.

Where Tailors Use It

Horse hair fabric makes an ideal lining cloth for making first-class business suits, overcoats, and similar tailored outerwear, as the original record puts it. In practice it is used as the chest piece and the under-collar canvas of a tailored jacket: cut on the bias or straight, pad-stitched to the cloth by hand in bespoke work or quilted by machine in factory tailoring, then shaped with steam into the curve of the chest. It also appears in the fronts of overcoats, in the brims and bodies of structured hats, and anywhere a garment needs a firm but flexible skeleton that will not go limp with wear.

Buyers should know what they are ordering, because the name covers a family. Pure horse hair canvas uses horse tail hair across the full width; blended hair canvas mixes horse hair with wool, cotton or goat hair for a softer hand at a lower price; and modern tailoring canvases may use synthetic hair substitutes. The suppliers below are listed as Apparel Search carries them, and their profiles are the place to confirm exactly which construction a supplier offers. Around this directory, horse hair sits beside Interlining in the wider Fabric Mill Directory, which indexes the whole section. When enquiring, state pure or blended hair content, weight, width and whether the canvas is to be pad-stitched or fused - those facts are a complete specification for this specialist cloth.

Using This Directory

The listings below are the complete set Apparel Search carries for horse hair fabric: two suppliers, both in Anping, China, each linked to its own profile in the Fabric Mills by Name section. No listing has been added or removed, and none was verified dead, so the standing rule - keep a listing when in doubt - leaves the set exactly as the directory has always presented it. Open a profile for the company's directory record and contact details, and judge a supplier by the constructions its profile says it makes regularly: horse hair canvas is a specialist tailoring product, and a supplier tooled for it will name its hair content and weights plainly. Thank you for using the Apparel Search Fabric Mill Directory.

Horse Hair Fabric Suppliers Listed in This Directory