Abstract

Drapery fabrics are textile products utilized for home and decorative textiles. Recently there have been new functional requirements for the drapery fabrics such as flame retardancy, antimicrobial efficiency, UV protection, etc. This study has been conducted to investigate the effect of weft yarn type and weft density on drapery fabrics' burning behaviour, tearing strength and air permeability properties. "A special inherently flame-retardant yarn" was used as the warp and weft yarns of the woven drapery fabrics while "a special inherently and antibacterial yarn" was also used as the weft yarn in some of the sample groups. Two main fabric groups each consisting of 12 woven drapery samples with different weft yarns and weft densities were separately evaluated among themselves by using SPSS Statistical software package and bar graphs. Burning behaviours of the samples in terms of damage length and damage width with the ignition source were satisfying both for the drapery samples with the special inherently flame-retardant weft yarn as well as those with the special inherently flame retardant and antibacterial yarn weft yarns. In other words, usage of inherently flame retardant and antibacterial yarn as the weft yarns did not contribute negatively on the flame retardancy of drapery fabrics. The results of two-way ANOVA test indicated that weft yarn type was a significant factor for tearing strength in warp and weft wise while weft density and the interaction of weft yarn type and weft density factors were non-significant factors on tear strength values in warp and weft wises at significance level of 0.05. Additionally, correlation analyses revealed that weft yarn tenacity values were highly correlated with the drapery fabrics' weft tearing strength values. Moreover, weft yarn type, weft density and their interaction were influential factors on air permeability of the drapery fabrics at significance level of 0.05.

Highlights

  • Drapery fabrics have always been used as important decorative textile products

  • *statistically significant at 0.05 level results of 1st group drapery fabrics (Table 3), weft yarn type was an influential factor on tearing strength in warp and weft wise at significant level of 0.05

  • This study aims to evaluate the effect of polyester weft yarn type and weft density on burning behaviour, tearing strength and air permeability properties of antibacterial drapery fabrics

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Introduction

Drapery fabrics have always been used as important decorative textile products. Due to its superior features, polyester is the most frequently used raw material for drapery fabrics. Drapery fabrics are expected to provide a decorative aspect, some additional technical properties such as acoustic features, thermal insulation, protection from the ultraviolet effect (UV) of sun ray, flame retardancy, etc. Some special features may be transferred to textile products through the finishing procedures or by utilizing functional yarns in the textile materials. The methods for reducing the flammability of textiles may be explained with 4 ways: Utilizing high performance fibres such as polyether, ether ketone, polyimides, carbon, glass may be a good alternative as the first method. Adding flame retardants during polymer processing is the most popular one for polyester fibres which is very economic and efficient

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