Application of AUTOCAD in Garment Industry.

AUTOCAD, a general purpose computer aided design (CAD) and drafting software package, offers many benefits for apparel design. The CAD software features more than 140 commands for pattern designing, grading, and marker planning. A system for shirt pattern designing with AUTOCAD involves selecting a suitable pattern scale, determining the ..

Laundry Detergent and Dye-Use Trends.

Peroxygen bleach detergents are the fastest growing segment of the laundry detergent industry, accounting for 27 percent of all granular laundry detergent sales. Hydrogen peroxides liberated from sodium perborate or sodium percarbonate represent the sole bleaching species in nonactivated 'with bleach' detergents. Activated peroxygen bleac..

Alkalinity Studies of Commercial Denim Fabrics.

Wet processing procedures differ among commercial denim manufacturers. Excessive amounts of alkali remaining in apparel after desizing affect enzyme abrasion performance and final fabric quality. Indigo denim fabrics analyzed for pH and total alkalinity showed large and variable amounts of alkali released during various desizing procedure..

Safety requirements for dry-cleaning machines using perchloroethylene

ISO 8230 Safety requirements for dry cleaning machines using perchlorethylene is intended to instruct the designer of dry cleaning machinery in a systematic manner regarding the relevant essential safety requirements and to suggest possible solutions representing the state of art with respect to safety. It is applicable to closed-circuit ..

Disposal of hot water soluble garments

This article describes a way of disposing of protective medical garments and other healthcare products, such as linens, drapes and towels which has been inveted by Isolyser. The garments are made from thermoplastic polyvinyl alcohol which can be dissolved in water at temperatures above 37 degrees Celsius. This way the garment or fabric ca..

A new collision detection algorithm for garment animation

This paper presents a new technique for collision detection between fabric and fabric or fabric and body, applied on our physical-based fabric drape model. The technique can produce a realistic 3D virtual fashion show based on fabric mechanical properties and has the ability to handle the collision of clothing with an animated synthetic h..

A Contribution to the Study of Sewability of Wool and Wool Blend Fabrics. Part 3.

A methodical study of the incidence of parameters derived from the FAST system of fabric evaluation used 40 samples of wool and wool blend fabrics. Properties related to sewing were the force of sewing neelde penetration, sewability, and index of sewability. The study used two types of sewing needles with three different diameters. Prelim..

Multiphase Heat and Mass Transfer through Hygroscopic Porous Media with Applications to Clothing Materials.

Research on hygroscopic porous media developed a set of practical differential equations that described time dependent heat and mass transfer through these materials. The equations included such factors as the swelling of the solid due to water imbibition

Forecasting seam shrinkage in linen garments

The effect of laundering on seam shrinkage in linen garments is discussed. Results reveal that operational shrinkage after eight washes is almost twice as great as seam shrinkage after one wet treatment. Seams produced with reinforced sewing threads shrink less. Seams in the warp direction exhibit the greatest shrinkage; the shrinkage dec..

Lightweight Wool Garment Wrinkle Performance: A Wear Experiment.

A controlled wear experiment investigating the wrinkle performance of light weight woolen fabrics entailed subjects wearing light weight wool and wool blend trousers for 2 hours in ambient environments of 20 degrees centigrade, 40 percent relative humidity or 25 degrees centigrade, 75 percent relative humidity. Black and white photographs..