Sustainability has become the Unique Selling Proposition or Unique Selling Point (USP) for many denim jeans manufacturers in the last year or two. Considering it takes around 1,800 gallons of water to grow enough cotton to produce one pair of blue jeans - not accounting for the amount of water used to reach the appropriate wash– many manufacturers...

Needles The needles are the most important stitch forming elements. They are displaced vertically up and down and are mounted into the tricks or cuts of the knitting cylinder. There are three types of needles namely: Latch needle Spring bearded needle Compound needle. We can divide a needle into three main parts: The hook; which takes...

Lyocell is a regenerated cellulosic fiber. It is a manmade fiber but it shows both the properties of natural fiber and synthetic fiber. It will be clear when you will read the following physical and chemical properties of Lyocell. It is also known as Rayon, Modal, ‘Art Silk’ or Artificial Silk according to their manufacturing process. Rayon...

Fiber (from the Latin fibra) is natural or synthetic substance that is significantly longer than it’s width. Fibers are often used in the manufacture of other materials. The strongest engineering materials often incorporate fibers, for example carbon fiber and ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene. Synthetic fibers can often be produced very cheaply...

Creel The creels are simply metallic frames on which the feeding bobbins are fitted. They are outfitted with yarn tension devices, which in modern machines are provided with automatic control and centralized tension variation.The creels are the frames on which the cones which feed the warped are pinned. The number of cones depends on the type of...

Types of knitting needle There are mainly three types of needle is used 1.      Latch Needle 2.      Compound Needle 3.      Bearded Needle Latch Needle Matthew Townsend, a Leicester hosier, patented the latch needle in 1849.  Townsend spent much...

Selvedges provide strength to fabric for safe handling of the fabric. Selvedge should not curl. In shuttle looms, there is no need for special selvedges; since the yarn is not cut after each filling insertion, the edges of the fabric are smooth and strong. Fig: Normal Selvedge by Shuttle Loom In shuttle-less weaving, since the pick yarn is...

WEAVING: The process of producing a fabric by interlacing warp and weft threads is known as weaving. The machine used for weaving is known as weaving machine or loom. Weaving is an art that has been practiced for thousands of years. The earliest application of weaving dates back to the Egyptian civilization. Over the years, both the process as...