Materium for textiles

Explore fabrics with an AI material identifier.

Look closer at yarns, surface textures and garment construction. Materium helps you explore likely materials and keep a personal reference for the fabrics around you.

Connect fabric structure with fibre information.

A fabric’s appearance reflects its fibres, yarn construction and finish. Materium uses visible patterns and object context to produce a structured assessment. A composition label provides complementary product-specific detail, especially for blends.

See how Materium builds a material report ↗

A practical way to explore

Capture the object. Take a broad garment view and a clear close-up of the fabric in even light.
Explore the report. Read the material assessment alongside the visible observations and material information.
Build your reference. Save the scan in Materium and keep supporting label or product details in your own notes for future comparisons.

Illustrative Materium material report preview — Illustrative app preview with sample data; this is not a recorded fabric identification test.

Start with cotton and polyester.

Compare the material family separately from the knit or weave. Two different-looking garments can share a fibre, and a single garment can combine several.

Can a photo identify an exact fibre blend?

A photo gives useful evidence about texture, structure and the likely material family. Use the fibre content label or manufacturer specification for declared blend percentages. This pairs visual exploration with the details supplied for the actual product.

Learn through everyday objects

Browse the material reference ↗

Answer one concrete question

What fabric is this? Identifying fabric without a label

When the tag is missing, identify construction before composition: a knit, weave, pile or coating is something you can document. Then use product information and a visual material assessment to investigate the fibre family.

Wool or acrylic? How to investigate a jumper's fibres

Start with the label or product record, then document the yarn and construction. Wool is an animal fibre and acrylic a manufactured fibre; softness, warmth and surface fuzz can overlap and do not establish the blend.