Abstract
The shape of apparel is one of the most important elements in fashion design, for example, the three-dimensional shape of apparel can be quite creative and fashionable. The current technologies for creating the three-dimensional shape of apparel are many, but have their limitations in dealing with various fabrics, particularly light and soft fabrics. This article presents a new method to rapidly create three-dimensional shape of apparel for avoiding the aforementioned disadvantages. The method combines thermal bonding of thermoplastic polyurethane film and vacuum forming. In this study, 12 kinds of commercial fabrics were selected and then tested. All these fabrics were first bonded to thermoplastic polyurethane film and then rapidly applied to the vacuum forming machine to form the three-dimensional mold-like shape. This research analyzed the factors of molding a fabric to a good three-dimensional shape of apparel and the relative tests to be carried out for validating its stability for the selected fabric samples. There are two main contributions of this study. The first is to propose a more effective method for three-dimensional shape of apparel in fashion design. The second is to provide useful information for fabric selection and determination of bonding temperature in molding.
Highlights
Fashion is regarded to be artistic and creative.[1,2] How to create an interesting and aesthetic three-dimensional (3D) shape becomes a crucial issue in fashion design.[3,4,5,6,7] Generally, there are two types of methods for creating 3D shape of apparel (SA), namely, physical-based method and thermal-based method
Twelve kinds of commercial fabrics are thermal bonded with the thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) film by the heat-press machine (XIHONG, XY-013A) and the fabric is molded to the desired 3D shape with the vacuum forming machine (Shang Yu SHANGYU, TWDE-009) (Figure 4)
Based on the results of the pre-molding test on 12 kinds of commercial fabrics, all of them did not show the possibility of being molded into the 3D shape
Summary
Fashion is regarded to be artistic and creative.[1,2] How to create an interesting and aesthetic three-dimensional (3D) shape becomes a crucial issue in fashion design.[3,4,5,6,7] Generally, there are two types of methods for creating 3D shape of apparel (SA), namely, physical-based method and thermal-based method. Its principle is that the heated thermoplastic material can be molded into the desired shape by mechanical and pneumatic stretching of the rapid vacuum This technology requires only one convex mold, which is placed on the machine’s vacuum bed.[27] The rest of the article is organized as follows: the second section describes the use of thermal bonding the thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) film and vacuum forming technology to rapidly create 3D SA. Twelve kinds of commercial fabrics are thermal bonded with the TPU film by the heat-press machine (XIHONG, XY-013A) and the fabric is molded to the desired 3D shape with the vacuum forming machine (Shang Yu SHANGYU, TWDE-009) (Figure 4). Experiment, the heat-press machine was used to bond selected fabrics obtained from section “Pre-molding test” and the TPU film (Figure 4). This wrinkle recovery experiment was repeated 10 times for each fabric, and their average angles were obtained in the end
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