Research Journal of Textile and Apparel: Volume 16 Issue 3

Fast Fabric: Development and Production Practices of Dominant Fast Fashion Retailers

Jennie Peterson Yu, Jimmy Chang, Yiu Hing Wong, Ka-Leung Moon

This paper explores the fast fashion transformation in the apparel textile industry and subsequent impacts on fabric manufacturing and the development processes. Characterized by…

Impact Protective Clothing in Sport: Areas of Application and Level of Utilization

Sabine Dlugosch, Hong Hu, Allan CK Chan

Each year, 75 million people worldwide suffer from different sporting injuries. It has been shown that the majority of these injuries occur among athletes who did not wear…

Effects of Design Attributes on the Functional Performance of Restraint Garments for Hospital Patients

K.L. Yick, K.Y. Lai, H.M. Tsui, S.Y. Kwan

Physical restraints have been commonly used in health care settings for people with challenging behaviours. The function performance of restraint garments in relation to their…

Wool Fabrics with Antibacterial Properties

S.H. Abdel-Fattah, E.M. El-Khatib

Wool fabric is a suitable medium for growing bacteria under favorable temperature and humidity conditions resulting in wool degradation, skin irritation or infections. Carboxylic…

Using Nonwoven Hollow Fibers to Improve Cars Interior Acoustic Properties

Abdelfattah Mahmoud, Ghalia El-Shenawy, Eman Ramadan

This research aims to produce nonwoven fabrics that can be used in car interior components (head liners, doors, side panels and trunk liners) to prevent noise from reaching the…

Cellulase Enzyme in Bio-finishing of Cotton-Based Fabrics: Effects of Process Parameters

Hebeish Ali, Mohamed Hashem, Nihal Shaker, Mohamed Ramadan, Bahiya El-Sadek, Marwa Abdel Hady

Cotton-based fabrics, namely loomstate cotton fabric, grey mercerized cotton fabric, loomstate cotton/polyester (50/50 and 35/65) blended fabric were bio-desized by α amylase…

Processes of Dyeing, Finishing and Flame Retardancy of Cellulosic Textiles in the Presence of Reactive Tertiary Amines

A. Waly, M.M. Marie, N.Y. Abou-Zeid, M.A. El-Sheikh, A.L. Mohamed

Cotton fabrics can be dyed with reactive and/or direct dyes in aqueous baths under certain specific conditions of pH, salt, temperature, time, etc., and rendered fire retardant…

Wetting Properties of a Few Industrially Useful Surfactant Mixtures as Prerequisite Fundamentals of Dyeing Characteristics

Man Singh

Dyeing is a dynamic chemical process on surfaces executed with controlled physicochemical properties of dyeing mixtures. Surface tension (± 0.01 mN/m), interfacial tension (± 0.01…

An Investigation on Surface Characteristics of Hair Fibres of Cold-Resistant Animals

Zhang Hong-jie, Chen Zhen, Zhu Yin-lin, Du Zhao-qun, Yu Wei-dong

Cold weather and the subsequent demand for lightweight apparel have prompted research work in the field of thermal insulation clothing. In addition to natural fibres, such as wool…

Study of Thermal Behaviour of Fabric Coated with Nanocomposite Polyacrylate/Clay

S. Dhouib, K. Abid, F. Sakli

In this paper, nanocomposites are synthesised with Tunisian natural clay which has the advantage of being inexpensive. In fact, it is simply a mixture of several sorts of clays…

Cold Pad Batch Cationization and Dyeing of Linen Fabric with Reactive Dyes

Hamada M. Mashaly, Peter J. Hauser

Unmodified linen fabric is cationized through the reaction of two different commercial cationizing agents, 3-chloro-2-hydroxypropyltrimethyl ammonium chloride (CHTAC) and…

Finishing of Cotton Fabric by Methacrylic Acid in the Presence of Reactive Peroxydiphosphate-Metal Ion-Cellulose Thiocarbonate Redox System

R.I. Mahmoud, M.S. Morsy

Modification of cotton fabrics by using thiocabonate redox system with peroxydiphosphate (PP), ferouse ammonium sulphate(FAS) and methacrylic acid (MAA) under various conditions…

Bioscouring Aided by EDTA and β-Cyclodextrin for Purification of Loomstate Cotton and Blend Fabrics

A. Hebeish, M. Hashem, M.A. Ramadan, B. Sadek, M. Abdel-Hady

Incorporation of either EDTA or β-cyclodextrin in the bioscouring treatments and its onset on the bioscoured fabrics performance was intensively studied. Biotreatments involved…

Synthesis and Application of New Ureido Reactive Dyes

N.F. Ali, S. Shakra, Y.A. Youssef, T.S. Aysha

New disazo and polyazo ureido reactive dyes incorporating different reactive systems were synthesized and applied to cotton fabric by the exhaust dyeing method. Different factors…

Preparation of Adsorptive Polyacrylonitrile Fibers Blending with Poly (N-butyl Methacrylate)

Zhaogang Ge, Changfa Xiao

Poly(n-butyl methacrylate)(PBMA) has been prepared by a suspension polymerization process, and blended with polyacrylonitrile (PAN) in N,N-dimethyl acetamide (DMAc). The…

Antimicrobial and Self-cleaning Textiles using Nanotechnology

E.M. El-Khatib

The present article review is pertaining to recent developments in antimicrobial and self-cleaning textiles using nanotechnology. Nanosized metal and metal oxide particles in…