Assessment of Comfort Properties of Eco-Friendly Dyed and Finished Bamboo/Cotton Knitted Fabric for Sportswear

P C Jemina Rani¹, N Vasugi Raaja²

¹Assistant Professor, Department of Costume Design and Fashion, Chikkanna Govt Arts College, Tiruppur
²Professor, Department of Textiles and Clothing, Dean of Home Science, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore

Abstract

Technical textiles are textile materials and products mainly produced for their technical function and performance, their aesthetic and decorative properties are of secondary importance. Next to medical textiles, sports textiles are the second fast growing area in technical textiles. Cotton fabric is highly popular to society because of its excellent properties such as regeneration, bio-degradation, softness, affinity to skin, and sweat-absorbing properties. Bamboo is extremely absorbent, it is about sixty percentage more water absorbent than cotton. Bamboo fiber is frequently being used in blends with cotton in textile industry which has got high wet strength. Blending is usually done using 50/50 combinations. A study was conducted using Natural dyed (Annattoo seed) and microencapsulated herbal finished (Eucalyptuscitriodora (Eucalyptus leaf) and Azadirachta indica (Neem) were prepared at 2:1 compositions) single jersey knitted 50:50 bamboo/cotton blends, for their comfort properties. Assessment of unfinished and finished fabrics for comfort properties such as drape co-efficient, air permeability, porosity, liquid moisture management property and water vapour resistance were carried out.

Keywords

• Sports Textiles, comfort properties, single jersey knitted fabric, 50:50 bamboo/cotton blends, drape co-efficient, air permeability, porosity, liquid moisture management property, water vapour resistance

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P C Jemina Rani, N Vasugi Raaja. "Assessment of Comfort Properties of Eco-Friendly Dyed and Finished Bamboo/Cotton Knitted Fabric for Sportswear" International Conference on Systems, Science, Control, Communication, Engineering and Technology (2016): 114-117. Print.