Why Do Clothes Shrink and Why Does Cotton and Wool Fabric Shrink More Than Synthetic Fibers?
Clothes shrink because of the chemical and physical properties of fibers from natural sources, especially cotton, wool and linen. The individual fibers in yarns are made of long polymer chains, or strands of giant molecules. In their natural state, the chains are scrolled up or crinkled. In preparing them for spinning and weavin
