Polar fleece
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Polar fleece is a soft napped insulating synthetic wool fabric made from PET. It was created in 1979 by Malden Mills; it was a new, light and powerful pile fabric meant to mimic and in some ways surpass wool. Polar Fleece has some of wool's finest qualities but weighs a fraction of the lightest available woolens. The creators, Malden Mills, named it "Polar Fleece", never suspecting that they were coining an industry-household word.
As of 1998, only the following companies manufactured Polar Fleece in America: Malden Mills, Dyersburg Corporation (leader in polar fleece manufacture today), Menra Mills, Huntington Mills, Siltex Mills and Glenoit Mills.
Polar Fleece is primarily used in sweatpants, gym clothes, hoodies, and inexpensive throw blankets. It is made entirely from recycled plastic bottles and is very light, soft and easy to wash. [1]
Fleece garments traditionally come in different thickness: micro, 100, 200, and 300, with 300 being the thickest and least flexible.
[edit] Care
Polar fleece items should be washed in warm water and machine dried at low temperatures. It may be ironed on a low heat setting.
[edit] External links
- Malden Mills, the original manufacturer of Polartec® and Polarfleece®
- Denver Fabrics fleece description
A wonderful site for general purposes and Polar Fleece history, along with the history of pile fabrics, can be found at [2]
