Hey, I'm Laura and today I'm going to talk to you about the difference between knits and woven in fabric. Generally speaking, knit fabrics stretch, woven fabrics do not. There are exceptions, of course, but most of the time this is the truth. In woven fabrics, you have long fibers that go up and down that are stable and other fibers that go in and out in between those fibers. This is really stable, doesn't stretch except when it's on the bias. In knits, and this is generalized, the fabric loops, little fibers loop in between each other, and there's a room in between them. If those straighten out, you can see that that might stretch. When you're talking about stretch fabrics, you'll frequently hear two-way or four-way stretch. What that means is it stretches, if it's two-way, more in one direction and not so much in the other. So T-shirt jersey, for example, will stretch a fair bit around the body, generally, but not so much up and down the body. A four-way stretch, like a spandex in a swimwear, will stretch across and up and down. That's why they call it four-way stretch. Thank you so much. I hope you come back again. Please like and subscribe below.