(Last Updated On: August 17, 2017)

Ripstop fabrics are woven fabrics often made out of nylon, whilst using a special reinforcing technique that makes them very resistant against tearing and ripping. Advantages of ripstop fabrics are the favorable weight to strength ratio and that smaller tears and rips can not easily spread further in the fabric. Nickel copper ripstop conductive fabric is mainly used in RFID blocking wallets, while the plain weave conductive fabric is mainly used in electrical gaskets, EMF protection curtains, wall covers and EMI shielding tents.

We are manufacturing of nickel copper conductive fabrics, including ripstop conductive  fabric and plain weave conductive fabric. The ripstop fabric surface is full of small lattice if you look closer. But the plain weave fabric isn’t. What is the key difference of ripstop and plain weave?

 

Both ripstop and plain weave fabric are woven fabrics.
A woven is a cloth formed by weaving. It only stretches in the bias directions (between the warp and weft directions), unless the threads are elastic. Woven cloth usually frays at the edges, unless measures are taken to counter this.
Ripstop fabrics are woven fabrics often made out of nylon, whilst using a special reinforcing technique that makes them very resistant against tearing and ripping.
Advantages of ripstop fabrics are the favorable weight to strength ratio and that smaller tears and rips can not easily spread further in the fabric.
Plain weave (also called tabby weave or taffeta weave) is the most basic of three fundamental types of textile weaves (along with satin weave and twill).It is strong and hard-wearing.
In plain weave, the warp and weft are aligned so they form a simple criss-cross pattern. Each weft thread crosses the warp threads by going over one, then under the next, and so on. The next weft thread goes under the warp threads that its neighbor went over, and vice versa.
Nickel copper ripstop conductive fabric is mainly used in RFID blocking wallets, while the plain weave conductive fabric is mainly used in electrical gaskets, EMF protection curtains, wall covers and EMI shielding tents.