International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology: Volume 28 Issue 4

Tensile property of highly twisted cotton yarns under varied relative humidity

Htet Htet Htike, Jian Kang, Sachiko Sukigara

The traditional Japanese cotton-crepe fabric chijimi has been used for summer clothing for over a century because of its good skin comfort. The high extensibility of this fabric…

Comparative analysis on pneumatic compact spinning systems

Xinjin Liu, Hong Zhang, Xuzhong Su

Pneumatic compact spinning is the most widely used compact spinning method at present, in which the negative pressure airflow is used to condense the fiber bundle and decrease the…

Thermal comfort properties of bamboo tencel knitted fabrics

Govindan Karthikeyan, Govind Nalankilli, O L Shanmugasundaram, Chidambaram Prakash

– The purpose of this paper is to present the thermal comfort properties of single jersey knitted fabric structures made from bamboo, tencel and bamboo-tencel blended yarns.

Evaluation method for thermal protection of firefighters’ clothing in high-temperature and high-humidity condition: A review

Yun Su, Yunyi Wang, Jun Li

The purpose of this paper is to provide the details of developments to researchers in test apparatus and evaluation methods to rate the thermal protective performance (TPP) of…

Design and practicability evaluation: a novel platform for fabric steam ironing

Shuaitong Liang, Xue Mei Ding, Xiong Ying Wu, Fan Wu, Tesfaye Mulu Asmamaw

Smooth appearance of fabrics after ironing with steam, soleplate, ironing speed and their interactions cannot be studied using household ironing machines such as hang steamer and…

Analysis of the performance properties of knitted fabrics containing elastane

Selin Hanife Eryuruk, Fatma Kalaoglu

Knitted fabrics containing elastane provide high level of comfort and ease of usage because of the elastic and drape properties over the body. Knitted fabrics respond to every…

Analysis of lockstitch seam strength and its efficiency

Iwona Frydrych, Agnieszka Greszta

Seam efficiency plays an important role for obtaining a desired seam quality. Therefore, this issue is often referred in research papers. The purpose of this paper is to determine…

Effects of wind direction on sportswear thermal insulation with various ease allowance

Shurong Hu, Mengmeng Zhao, Jun Li

– The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of wind direction and ease allowance on thermal comfort in sportswear.

The effect of link-length and vertex angle on mesh generation and pattern flattening for virtual clothing

Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem, Richard Kennon, Nick Clarke, Steven George Hayes

The purpose of this paper is to identify optimum operating parameters, namely, link-length and vertex angle, for producing virtual clothing prototypes for the purpose of pattern…

Detection of varied defects in diverse fabric images via modified RPCA with noise term and defect prior

Junjie Cao, Nannan Wang, Jie Zhang, Zhijie Wen, Bo Li, Xiuping Liu

– The purpose of this paper is to present a novel method for fabric defect detection.

Fabric defect detection via learned dictionary-based visual saliency

Chunlei Li, Ruimin Yang, Zhoufeng Liu, Guangshuai Gao, Qiuli Liu

Fabric defect detection plays an important role in textile quality control. The purpose of this paper is to propose a fabric defect detection algorithm using learned…

Construction of garment pattern shape information system using image analysis and shape recognition techniques

Jaewoong Lee, InHwan Sul

As an extended work of the previous paper (Sul, 2010), this paper provides a guideline information for an anonymous garment pattern in sewing process. The purpose of this paper is…