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Usage quality assessment of weft knitted fabrics made of modal fibers

Knitwear that are worn in direct contact with the skin, are often made of man-made artificial fibres from cellulose (eg. viscose, modal or lyocell) which provide silky touch, better hydrophilicity and exceptional contact comfort. Knitted fabrics were usually made of single spun yarns produced by conventional ring spinning system. More recently in application were also spun yarns made by unconventional rotor and air-jet spinning systems. Different spinning systems provide spun yarns of different structure and properties. Therefore, in this paper three different circular weft double jersey knitted fabrics made of single modal ring, rotor and air-jet spun yarns of the same linear density (20 tex), all made of bright staple modal fibres of linear density of 1.3 dtex and length of 38/40 mm, were used. With the purpose of analysing the influence of different spun modal yarns and the knitted fabrics processing level on their properties, the usage quality of raw and finished knitted fabrics were evaluated and their applicability assessed.

modal knitwear, double jersey, ring, rotor and air-jet spun yarn, textile testing

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