International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology: Volume 11 Issue 4

A study of the effect of time variations for assembly line balancing in the clothing industry

Chi Leung Patrick Hui, Sau Fun Frency Ng

The problem of assembly line balancing is to assign different tasks to individual workstations for ensuring the sum of task times at any station not exceeding the station time…

Thermophysiological comfort of silicone softeners‐treated woven textile materials

Tzanro Tzanov, Rossitza Betcheva, Ivan Hardalov

In this study the effect of the aminofunctional silicone softeners on fabrics’ heat and moisture transport properties has been investigated by means of Alambeta and Permetest…

Water transfer properties of two‐layer weft knitted fabric

Hai‐Ru Long

The aim of this study is to investigate the water (moisture vapor and liquid) transfer properties of two‐layer weft knitted fabric and some related factors. Some experimental…

Application of cluster analysis to fabric classification

Y. Chen, B.J. Collier, J.R. Collier

This paper introduces a new way of classifying clothing fabrics objectively. Representative apparel fabrics were collected and measured by the Kawabata Evaluation System for…

Made‐to‐measure garments for ladies – catering for wide ranging stature and length measurements for standard and outsize ladies

John Patrick Turner, Terry Bond

A computer system for made‐to‐measure pattern production should have the capability of determining default measurements for sets of customer measurements input to the system where…

Microclimate ventilation of infant bedding

E.J. Holland, C.A. Wilson, R.M. Laing, B.E. Niven

The rate and volume of air exchanged between the bed microclimate and the ambient environment determines in part how much heat is lost from the human body. This study investigated…

A case study of the use of objective measurement technologies for textile trading

George Stylios

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