Research Journal of Textile and Apparel: Volume 8 Issue 1

Textile Dreamweavers

Arun Pal Aneja

Speculating about the future of textiles is an endeavor as old as the past. It is pursued by “experts” and laymen alike to one degree or another. The process consists of…

The Effective Thermal Resistance of Fibrous Layers in Sleeping Bags

Luboš Hes

This paper describes a simple method for evaluating the thermal insulation capacity of fibrous layers in sleeping bags. Our measurements have kept the thickness layer at 75per…

Forecast of Yarn Breakages During The Weaving Process

Ioan Cioară, Lucica Cioară, Elena Onofrei

Weaving process efficiency is determined by factors that take into account the technical condition of the weaving machine, the quality of the used yarns, the workers’…

Shedding Without Dynamic Warp Loading: The Possibility of Forming a New Woven Structure

Janusz Szosland

Shedding without dynamic warp loading is done by a loom using assemblies of polygonal shedding disks and disks for increasing weft density. The multiphase rotational loom allows…

PVD-Coating for the Processing of Textiles

H. Kabir, J. Matthess, Y. Dietzel, P. Offermann, G. Nocke, K. Matthess, V. V.

The application of textiles has constantly been extended by new developments, material modification and by special procedures. Particularly surface coatings represent an…

Experimental and Theoretical Diffusion Modelling of Gas Filtration Processes

Włodzimierz Wawszczak, Wiktor Strzembosz

This paper presents the study of structures of random fibre arrangement with very high irregularity and textiles made of fibres with a very high level of parallelism, arranged in…

Relationships between Cotton Fibre Properties and the Properties of Greigestate Fabrics Woven from Rotorspun Cotton Yarns

John B. Price, Jacqueline H. Campbell, Timothy A. Calamaria, Josef Ripka

Yarns of 20 tex were rotor spun from a set of American cottons of diverse origins that provided a wide range of fibre properties. A fabric of plain weave with 27.6 ends per cm and…

The Application of The Principle of Information Theory to Fabric Hand Evaluation

Jin L. Hu

In this paper, the author applies the principle of information theory to probe the role that experience plays in the process of fabric hand evaluation. 8 experts and 8…

Fundamentals of Technologies for Textile Specialty Products

Tatsuki Matsuo

Many kinds of specialty products have been and will be commercialized in textile industry. But there have been no text in which fundamentals of technologies for textile specialty…

Innovation Process Management in Global Fashion Business: Modelling Iteration in Innovation Process Activities

Hon-Kwok Fung, Chester Kin-man To, Chun-sun Leung, Zhiming Zhang

Following the previous sequel, we posit innovation activity management as managing process-based interactivity dependencies to achieve organizations’ desired goals for novel…