Abstract:

Work wear woven fabrics have wide application in the area of sports, industrial textiles and defense. The performance characteristics of these fabrics are important with respect to their specific application. To improve the performance of woven work wear fabrics, different compositions of weft yarns with polyester/cellulosic material were used to produce fabric specimens on a picanol air jet loom. The effect of the composition on the tensile strength, tear strength and pilling of woven fabric specimens was studied. It was concluded that the fabric with a higher composition of modal and polyester produced better tensile strength in group G-1 as well as in group G-2. The fabric produced with modal as weft yarn also exhibited higher tear strength along the filling direction. The effect of pilling was also studied and it was found that modal and combed cotton produced low pilling as compared with other materials.