Moisture properties of raised 3-thread fleece fabric knitted with different face and fleecy yarns

Abstract

The sportswear sector in textile industry has expanded on the worldwide and the producers and wearers want to indicate their comfort performance in addition to the aesthetic demands. Sportswear should possess good moisture transmission property. Moisture flow through various materials is a complex phenomenon as in three-thread fleece knitted fabric produced with different face and fleecy yarn material. So, in this study, nine three-thread fleece fabrics of different composition materials have been studied, where these knitted fabrics are produced in a special circular knitted machine. The developed fabrics are taken to measure, water vapor permeability “WVP”, gain%, air permeability, drying time, color difference, immersion time and bursting strength. The test results were discussed statistically with single factor ANOVA. From the experimental results, it has been observed that the difference between face and fleecy yarns material was highly significant for the whole fabric in the water vapor permeability, gain%, color difference and immersion time. Three-thread Fleece fabric knitted with Egyptian cotton for the face and fleecy yarns has the maximum bursting strength compared to other samples having Bamboo and Tencel yarns.