Fasteners are important elements in clothing as it serves as locks to the garment openings. Pants basically use buttons and zipper as fasteners in most of our clothes and workwear apparels such as pants and some other manufacturers are comfortable utilizing velcro. We know what is a zipper and what is a button and we basically know how these two works and being used. However, we are not just that sure how velcro works.
In order to know how velcro works, it is good that we first tackle how its inventor made it. According to accounts, velcro was invented by a Swiss engineer George de Mestral. He came to the idea of a clothing fastener when after a hunting trip he noticed about some leaves attaching naturally to his pants. After such he thought of using the discovered phenomenon for other uses thus the velcro. Velcro is the combination of the words "velvet" and "crochet."
The main idea was to create a fabric that has the capacity to stick to each other for use as garment fastener. Thus the hook-and-loop fastener has been coined. At some point velcro has been known as the zipperless zipper.
The mechanism of the velcro is simple. First there should be two surfaces of fabric; one contains small hooks and the other with tiny loops. At first, cotton is used as loops but had been proven its fibers worn out after some use. Because of this lyon and polyester are basically the materials now used for velcro. When the hooks get to tangle with the loops, it creates a gluing effect.
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