Effect of Yarn Twist Direction and Woven Design on Certain Novelty Fabrics from Cotton/Polyester Trilobal Filament 3-ply Yarn

Abstract

Recent advances in fibre and yarn technology, coupled with the ever changing lifestyles of the present day consumers, has a considerable bearing on the ‘Product development’ of ‘Novel fabrics.’ Moreover, today’s consumers are becoming more and more conscious, in terms of fabric quality, design, performance and aesthetic attributes in a product and are on the constant look out for ‘Newer’ fabrics of their choice. In the present work, the use of cotton in blends with the polyester trilobal filament yarn in conjunction with plain and sateen weave designs on certain engineered commercially used poplin, cambric and crepe constructions have resulted in the development of a set of ‘Novel fabrics’ for the consumer. The effect of the direction of ‘S’ and ‘Z’ twist yarns and their various arrangement and groupings of warp and weft threads in fabrics have brought out interesting results in the formation of special ‘Warp ribbed’, ‘Shadow’ and ‘Crepe’ like fabric structures. Only, polyester component dyeing in these cotton-rich (67-33, C:P) blend samples has provided the option of producing lighter shaded shirtings and suitings economically as per the consumers’ requirement and cross dyeing of cotton part results in the samples has further opened up numerous possibilities of introducing ‘Novel’ effects in such trilobal blend fabrics.