Textiles Testing

The simple, safe and accurate way to check textile composition for recycling and reuse, and conservation.

Sagitto allows you to quickly test any fabric without destroying it

Test textiles quickly and non-destructively.

If you enter the search term "How to find out what a fabric is made from" then you're likely to find references to 'burn tests'. Now there's a much safer, quicker and completely non-destructive way. Within seconds, Sagitto's 'Lab-in-the-Hand' gives you the composition of a garment.

(Want to know if your textile is pure silk? Check out our Blog Post on the subject)

Sagitto can measure the percentage cotton and polyester in a textile

Fabric composition in seconds.

Each Sagitto test has its own unique AR code

Unique QR code for every result

Get Sagitto reports in the language of our choice

Choice of language

Unique fingerprints.

Each fabric has a unique absorption spectrum in the NIR wavelength range. Sagitto has used these unique NIR fingerprints and created accurate machine learning models to allow you to quickly analyse the fibre composition of fabrics.

No more guessing.

Quantify common mixtures, like polyester/cotton.

Each report has a confidence rating.

Every textile has a unique NIR fingerprint

Did you know?

To accurately calculate the composition of textile blends, testing laboratories take into account the relative densities of each fibre type. To illustrate this we deconstructed a 1.5gm sample, separating the warp and the weft threads. We were able to test these warp and weft threads separately, and by taking their relative densities into account we show that this textile is 60% linen (0.9gm of warp threads) and 40% silk (0.6gm of weft threads).