Burn-out fabric is a plain cloth woven with yarns with the acid-resistant synthetic long fiber or short fiber as the core and non-acid resistant cotton or acrylic fiber as the outer part. Such fabrics are treated in the etching techniques to produce transparent part and non-transparent part, which form various patterns on the fabrics.
Burn-out fabrics are fine and thin in texture, give strong relief perception and offer soft hand. They are excellent in resilience, and can be easily washed and quickly dried up and are iron-free.
Normally, such cloths are woven with covering yarns (polyester long fiber and cotton blended yarn) or yarn blended with polyester short fiber and cotton (also named etched-out Dacron). The gray cloth for the burn-out fabric is in plain weave. The gray cloth is subject to treatment and finishing according to the desired patterns. Some of the fibers get rotted away in acid and some remain, leaving some transparent part to achieve clear-cut patterns.