The standards for sun-protective clothing
There have been sun protective clothing standards in the USA since 2001.In the USA, testing is performed according to the standard AATCC183 available from the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists . In Australia, the fabric is tested in new condition. In the USA there is an addition...
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Study On Fabric Properties Affecting Abrasion
Fabric construction, thickness, weight, the number of yarn (thread density) and interlacing per unit area are the fabric properties affecting abrasion. Weave type has a significant effect on abrasion resistance of the fabrics. Woven fabric properties will differ by changing the weave pattern which i...
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Abrasive wear in textiles
Abrasive wear,occurs when a hard rough surface slides across a softer surface. ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) defines it as the loss of material due to hard particles or hard protuberances that are forced against and move along a solid surface. Abrasive wear is commonly classified...
12-26
3W To Fabric Pilling
What is fabric pilling? Fabric pilling is the formation of small, fuzzy balls on the surface of a fabric. It detracts from the appearance of the fabric, making it look old and worn, and it is often difficult to restore a garment with fabric pilling to its original condition. Certain types of fibers ...
12-20
An Overview Of Global Textile Yarn Market
A continuous length of long interlocked fibers is known as yarn; it used in the various process of the textiles production such as weaving, sewing, embroidery, rope making, knitting, and crocheting. The thread is kind of textile yarn specially intended for sewing by machine or hand. Embroidery threa...
12-05
Different Colorfast Tests To Crocking
Crocking usually occurs in heavily dyed fabric, such as raw denim. Compared to bleeding, where the dye comes into contact with liquid; crocking occurs when the dye is physically rubbed off. Crocking is one of the processes that helps give raw denim its personality and is the cause for fades and atar...
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Data Of Textile Material
A textile is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibers (yarn or thread). Yarn is produced by spinning raw fibres of wool, flax, cotton, hemp, or other materials to produce long strands. Textiles are formed by weaving, knitting, crocheting, knotting or tatting, felti...
11-15
Basis And Facts Of Textile Industry
The basis for the growing textile recycling industry is, of course, the textile industry itself. The textile industry has evolved into a $1 trillion industry globally, comprising clothing, as well as furniture and mattress material, linens, draperies, cleaning materials, leisure equipment, and many ...
11-15
What Factors Affecting Flame Resistance
Flammability is the ability to burn or ignite any substance by means of fire or any kind of combustion. Various test procedures exist to determine the flammability. In domestic sphere many serious and tragic accidents are the results of clothing catching fire.Flameproof fabrics are absolutely necess...
11-08
Methods And Relevant Test Equipments For Abrasion Test
An abrasion test is a test used to measure the resistance of a material to wear stemming from sliding contact such as rubbing, grinding, or scraping against another material. An abrasion test may also be referred to as wear testing, as an abrasion resistance test, or simply as a resistance test. Wea...
11-07