Abstract:

Natural textile raw materials are nowadays undergoing a renaissance. Among natural fibres, flax is characterised by favourable ecological and physiological properties. The human and ecological properties of flax significantly surpass the properties of other fibres. The promotion of using flax fibres in so-called healthy garments in a healthy home and working environment harmonise with modern world-wide ecological trends. New types of bast fibres assigned for the production of fine blended yarns by means of the cotton rotor system have been developed. The relationship between selected bast and cotton fibres, feeding sliver parameters, and the parameters of yarns have been determined. A programmed selection of cotton & flax components will enable the production of high quality rotor yarns.