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Publication date: 1 May 2004

Frankie M.C. Ng

A study was carried out on the past and present techniques, processes, and procedures that enable the creation of seamless fashion for innovative ends. Unlike knitting and…

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A study was carried out on the past and present techniques, processes, and procedures that enable the creation of seamless fashion for innovative ends. Unlike knitting and moulding, which are by far the most developed methods of producing seamless clothing, there are a number of other techniques that can also be used to create seamless fashion, which deserve equal attention. This paper offers a chronological review of the development of some of these techniques towards the creation of seamless fashion.

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Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, vol. 8 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1560-6074

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Publication date: 1 May 1999

Frankie M.C. Ng

“Clothes from heaven are without seam (Tian Yi Wu Feng)”, the Chinese idiom says. A study has been carried out to investigate the past and present techniques, processes and…

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“Clothes from heaven are without seam (Tian Yi Wu Feng)”, the Chinese idiom says. A study has been carried out to investigate the past and present techniques, processes and procedures that enable creation of seamless fashion towards innovative ends. This paper puts the study into context, summarises these techniques and processes as well as their procedures in creating seamless objects and/or clothing items. and further appraises the favourability of these techniques towards the ends of seamless fashion creation.

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Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, vol. 3 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1560-6074

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Publication date: 1 February 1998

Frankie M.C. Ng, C.S. Leung and S.F. Chan

Amongst the various elements of visual merchandising, window display is by far the most direct in attracting potential customers. There has been considerable literature and…

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Amongst the various elements of visual merchandising, window display is by far the most direct in attracting potential customers. There has been considerable literature and activities on window displays, but attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of window display of a boutique selling jeans by its attraction to customers and subsequently, its ability to induce purchases. Results reveal that for a boutique selling jeans, the display of shop windows is not the most detennining factor in inducing sales, it is the products which are being displayed.

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Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, vol. 2 no. 1
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ISSN: 1560-6074

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Publication date: 1 February 1999

Frankie M.C. Ng

Men’s shirt has been one of the major categories of Hong Kong clothing industry. In recent years, high inflation rate, increases in labour cost and overhead expenses has resulted…

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Men’s shirt has been one of the major categories of Hong Kong clothing industry. In recent years, high inflation rate, increases in labour cost and overhead expenses has resulted in many of the Hong Kong men’s shirt manufacturers moving their production base to other Asian countries. Given the geographical proximity and cultural similarity, China has been considered as a possible alternative manufacturing base for Hong Kong men’s shirt. This paper aims at investigating the feasibility of China to become a new manufacturing base for Hong Kong men’s shirt. Twenty Hongkong shirt manufacturers and offices were interviewed to identify the factors attributive to the success of men’s shirt manufacturing. These factors were evaluated by Point Weighting Method for situations in China and Hong Kong now and in ten years’ time. In addition, SWOT Analysis is employed to compare the internal strengths and weaknesses and the external threats and opportunities between Hong Kong and China. Results showed that China is being preferred and will increasingly be preferred as a new manufacturing base for Hong Kong men's shirt.

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Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, vol. 3 no. 1
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ISSN: 1560-6074

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Publication date: 1 May 2007

NG, Frankie M.C., HU Jinlian, SZETO Yu-cheung and WANG Xueqin

Seamless garment creation has attracted substantial research and is currently growing in its commercial applications. This paper reports a study which aims to invent an approach…

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Seamless garment creation has attracted substantial research and is currently growing in its commercial applications. This paper reports a study which aims to invent an approach of integrating textile and fashion designs in seamless fashion creation. Based on the current industrial bi-axial weaving machine, a study was carried out to expand and invent weaving techniques with particular reference to double nterlacing toward a type of weaving seamless fashion (SWF) for developing a creative process and product of woven textiles and fashion. The method and theory of creating seamless woven fashion (SWF) were built upon certain hypotheses, experiments and analyses. Results show that by deploying advanced computer aided design systems, the production of seamless woven fashion (SWF) using multi-layer weaving techniques and a combination of stable and shape changeable fibers can be manufactured efficiently with a relatively simplified procedure that optimizes the design and manufacture process as opposed to the convention of fashion creation. It is envisaged that the results of this study will provide an alternative method of fashion creation, widen the creative and esthetical dimensions of textile and fashion design, and will enhance further research in these areas of integrated textile and fashion design systems.

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Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, vol. 11 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1560-6074

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Publication date: 1 May 2006

Frankie M.C. NG and Jiu ZHOU

Jacquard fabric is regarded as a “high-grade” textile, having intricate, interesting color and texture, and digital image design is the latest technique of computer art in the…

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Jacquard fabric is regarded as a “high-grade” textile, having intricate, interesting color and texture, and digital image design is the latest technique of computer art in the design field. Merging the design features of jacquard fabrics and digital image, this study was carried out to investigate digital jacquard fabric design in a colorless mode, which is one of the main modes of digital image design; another is that of a colorful mode. In this paper, the design principles and design methods for unconventional digital jacquard fabric design in a colorless mode were analyzed critically based on the application of digital technologies, and in particular, the digital color theory so that with tailor-made structural design, any colorless digital images with certain grays can be designed to form jacquard fabrics directly. The results of this study bring about an innovative design concept in jacquard fabrics and have a significant influence on the future development of jacquard textiles.

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Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, vol. 10 no. 2
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ISSN: 1560-6074

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Publication date: 1 February 1998

Frankie M.C. Ng and Winson Y.W. Kho

The earliest concept of spunlacing (also known as hydroentanglement): using water jets to entangle fibres to form non-woven fabrics, was conceived as early as 1950s. Like other…

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The earliest concept of spunlacing (also known as hydroentanglement): using water jets to entangle fibres to form non-woven fabrics, was conceived as early as 1950s. Like other nonwoven fabrics, spunlaced non-woven fabrics are not made of yams, but directly from fibers or filaments which are laid by web forming machines (e.g. cards) to form a loose unbonded web and are subsequently bonded by various processes (needling machines, melt fibers, chemical bonding agents or water needling technology) into a textile sheet. Since its initiation in 1953, the technology received increasing attention and has undergone rapid development during the 1980s. Today, China is one of the nations who has invested in spunlaced nonwoven fabric production, with 10 production lines each costs around 5 millions US dollars. The first China national conference on spunlace non-woven fabric production was held in Zhuhai, China in October 1996. This article reviews the historical development of spunlaced non-woven fabric production, gives an account on the technology and its recent development in China and discusses the problems faced.

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Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, vol. 2 no. 1
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ISSN: 1560-6074

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Publication date: 1 August 2013

Xue Qin Wang1, Frankie M.C. Ng and Jinlian Hu

Seamless woven fashion is approachable via the Jacquard technology. With the rapid development of weaving technology and materials, an attempt is being made to expand and invent…

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Seamless woven fashion is approachable via the Jacquard technology. With the rapid development of weaving technology and materials, an attempt is being made to expand and invent the technical and creative scopes of 3D Seamless Woven Fashion (SWF). The thrusts of the study are to establish complete design principles for advancing creation of SWF. In this study, three technical elements of weaving design have been identified in the course of SWF creation, i.e. elastic yarn, integrated structure, and integrated pattern. Past experiments so far suggested that it is possible to obtain different shrinkages as well as seamless woven textiles with varied richness and novel textures by adjusting the tightness of basic weaves. Moreover, three forms of layered structures, i.e., F (Flat), 3D-MnL (3-dimensional form on mono-layer) and 3D-MtL (3-dimensional appearance between multi-layers) were incorporated on different parts of a garment against specific requirements and/or performance. The construction of 3D shapes of SWF contributes to variety of fashions as well as woven textiles.

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Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, vol. 17 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1560-6074

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Publication date: 1 November 2015

M.C.F. Ng and W. Wang

Over the past few decades, there have been an increasing number of attempts to produce materials for fashion creation aiming at cost effectiveness, low environmental impact…

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Over the past few decades, there have been an increasing number of attempts to produce materials for fashion creation aiming at cost effectiveness, low environmental impact, labour friendliness and biodegradability. Among them, biotechnology is believed to be one of the finest substitutes for future fashion creation. A study has been carried out to explore the future development of fashion design and the possible applications of materials which can be grown from natural renewable and degradable resources. A pilot test with five design professionals on the comfort of bacterial cellulosic pellicles produced in varied incubation times and broth concentrations was conducted. This paper reports a further investigation of the receptivity to these bacterial cellulosic pellicles as material for future fashion through comparing and evaluating three comfort factors, namely hand comfort, flexibility comfort and breathability comfort, and two appearance factors, namely colour and texture, with 150 subjects using the random sampling method. The optimal favourable pellicle for fashion creation was identified and presented.

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Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, vol. 19 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1560-6074

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Publication date: 28 June 2019

Jurgita Domskiene, Florentina Sederaviciute and Judita Simonaityte

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the properties of bacterial cellulose (BC) film, obtained through Kombucha tea fermentation.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the properties of bacterial cellulose (BC) film, obtained through Kombucha tea fermentation.

Design/methodology/approach

Kombucha fungus was used to produce BC film under static cultivation conditions. Physical and mechanical properties under the influence of drying temperature and durability of BC material were investigated. Tensile properties were estimated by TINIUS OLSEN H10 KT test machine according to ISO 3376:2011, thickness was measured by DPT 60. BC structure was analysed by Scanning Electron Microscopy Quanta 200 FEG.

Findings

BC material with excellent deformation properties in wet state were obtained by fermenting Kombucha tea. Due to the presence of fermentation residues, Kombucha film is sensitive to drying temperature. The best deformation properties retain when BC material is dried at low temperature (about 25°C). BC material becomes stiffer and ruptures at lower deformations due to rapid water evaporation at higher drying temperature. It is confirmed that during time, the properties of BC film changes significantly and there may be problems with the durability of products from this material. BC film has an interesting set of properties, therefore its application to fashion industry without further preparation is limited.

Originality/value

A new approach is based on the evaluation of Kombucha material properties and investigation of BC as new type of material for fashion industry. Some recommendations for Kombucha BC film production are provided, basing on gained experience, experimental results and analysed literature. The advantages and disadvantages of material are discussed in the paper, in order to search for the ways to adapt the new type of material to fashion business.

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International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology, vol. 31 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0955-6222

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