There is a difference. Cheaper microfiber towels are usually nonprocessed.A non-split microfiber.
Depending on your need and task for a M.F towel,you have different woven factors you have to take into consideration. Along with your percentage of Polyester and Polyamide. The normal range is 80% polyes / 20% polya. The 70% / 30% are more expensive. What maks a M.f towel work are the lil' tiny microfiber hooks within the towel itself. This is how it is able to pick up and hold dirt.
M.F has been around for ages. The most commonly used is seen almost every day. Ever notice a person who wears glasses clean the lens? You usually get a tiny gray cloth about 3 x 3 square with some cleaning solusion when he or she purchases his /her glasses. This is a very, very, very, fine microfiber cloth.
Another thing is never, ever wash your micro towels with any other piece of fabric it will grab lint like a magnet. Simple detergent! NO additives such as bleach, woollite,spray on stain lifters or softeners.The cloth will do what it was designed to do and try to lift and hold particles from the products mentioned. Get polluted and become worthless.
The weave on the M.F towel determines its performance.Ranging from feathered hooks to tightly hooked fiber ends, or even the finely milled. There are now the waffle weave, zigzag weave or cross stitch which are fairly new though have yet to be proven if they accomplish any added benefit. The weave determines the felt difference on the clothes edge, which is why some feel like silk more than others.Feathered is best for cleaning glasses or glass. The tightly hooked is best used for buffing. Polishing the finely milled weave.
Consider the dynamics of a thin piece of strand. Denier is the unit of measurement in fabric and it's thin properties.Silk carries a denier of 8 per strand.Cotton 200. Human hair 20.Microfiber has a denier of 0.01 to 0.02. 100 x at minimal ,finer than the strand of hair on your head. Yet,softer than silk and strong has nails.
Now, what would you use to detail with? A terry cloth or a microfiber that produces hundreds of thousands of micro hooks per square inch?
