What is Renial fabric?

Renial is a name used in the Surat textile market for a polyester grey fabric with a soft, georgette-style hand. You will also see it written Rennial or Renoyr. Most Renial is printed and made into sarees, dress material and dupattas.

Where the name comes from

We have not found a reliable written source for the origin of the name. In practice it is a market name: weavers, traders and processors in Surat use it for a kind of cloth they all recognise, in the same way other qualities are known by trade names rather than technical ones.

This matters when you buy. Two weavers can both sell “Renial” with slightly different constructions. The name tells you the family of fabric; the spec tells you exactly what you are getting.

How it is made

Renial is woven from polyester filament yarn. The soft, slightly grainy hand comes mainly from twisted yarn – yarn that has been given extra twist on a TFO (two-for-one) twisting machine before weaving.

The main things that decide how a Renial quality looks and feels are:

• Yarn type and denier for warp and weft (for example FDY in one or both directions)
• TPM – how much twist the yarn has, in turns per metre
• Reed and pick – how closely the warp ends and the weft picks are packed
• Width and weight per taka

Our own Renial construction is on the Renial spec page. Some values there are still being confirmed and are marked as placeholders.

Parameter	Our Renial
Warp yarn / denier	Polyester [WARP_YARN_TYPE], [WARP_DENIER]
Weft yarn / denier	Polyester [WEFT_YARN_TYPE], [WEFT_DENIER]
TPM	[TPM]
Reed / pick	[REED_EPI] / [PPI]
Width	[WIDTH] inch
Weight per taka	[WEIGHT_PER_TAKA] kg

How it is processed

Grey Renial is not finished cloth. It leaves the loom with size and spinning oils on the yarn, and it does not yet have its final softness or fall. A processing house usually:

1. Washes (scours) the cloth to remove size, oil and dirt.
2. Heat-sets it so the width and shrinkage are stable.
3. Dyes or prints it.
4. Finishes it – softening and final stentering to width.

Some processors also give twisted polyester cloth a weight-reduction (caustic) treatment to make the hand softer and the fall better. Whether this is done, and how much, is decided by the processor, so the same grey Renial can end up feeling different from two processing houses.

What it is used for

• Printed sarees
• Dress material and kurtis
• Dupattas

How to specify Renial when ordering

Asking only for “Renial” is not enough to get the same cloth every time. When you order, give or ask for:

1. Warp and weft – yarn type (FDY, DTY etc.) and denier, e.g. “60 denier FDY”.
2. TPM – and whether the weft uses both S and Z twist.
3. Reed and pick – or EPI and PPI.
4. Width in inches, grey width.
5. Metres per taka and weight per taka, with the tolerance you can accept.
6. Quantity in taka or metres, and the delivery date.
7. A reference sample, if you have one from an earlier lot.

Not sure what these terms mean? See how to read a grey fabric quality spec and the grey fabric glossary.