Comfort Characteristics of Fabrics Containing Twis
Comfort Characteristics of Fabrics Containing Twis
Comfort Characteristics of Fabrics Containing Twis
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Article in Journal of Textile and Apparel, Technology and Management · January 2004
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Abstract
Comfort characteristics of plain-woven fabrics, containing viscose staple fiber twist-less and hollow
fibrous assemblies and core-sheath type DREF-III yarn in weft, have been reported in the present
paper. The twist-less and hollow fibrous assemblies are the individually separated parallel core and
annular sheath components respectively of core-sheath type DREF-III yarn. In all these fabrics the
same warp yarn, i.e. two-ply ring spun yarn was used. Three different types of weft yarn were
prepared in DREF-III system; (i) 59 tex yarn with staple viscose fiber in both core and sheath, (ii)
118 tex yarn with staple viscose fiber in core and water soluble staple PVA fiber in sheath, and (iii)
118 tex yarn with staple PVA in core and staple viscose in sheath. The core-sheath ratio was kept
50:50% for all the DREF-III yarns. The idea is to maintain the same weft yarns count (59 tex) in all
the three finished fabrics (after removal of PVA component), with different structure of fibrous
assembly in weft. The structure of fibrous assemblies in weft has great impact on the comfort related
properties, i.e. air permeability, thermal conductivity, percentage water vapor permeability, wicking
and water absorbency.
Keywords: Core, DREF-III yarn, Fibrous assembly, Hollow, Sheath, Twist-less
Fabric 48.67 0.3225 100.0 1.2 2.8 3.6 1.4 2.7 3.6 136.04
A
Fabric 53.00 0.5015 94.8 1.0 2.9 3.4 4.9 6.8 8.7 129.23
B
Fabric 13.23 0.6950 107.4 1.2 2.9 3.7 3.2 5.5 6.4 142.53
C