Interaction of wash-ageing and use of fabric softener for drapeability of knitted fabrics

摘要

This study involves subjective and objective evaluation of drapeability of knitted textiles during the life cycle of a fabric.nThe life cycle of fabric was represented by forty laundry cycles in this paper. We examined the influence of knittingnconstruction, fibre fineness, number of washing cycles and use of the fabric softener during the laundry cycle on thendrape coefficient of the PET and viscose knitted fabrics, and also investigated the order of influence of these four factorsnon drape coefficient. A high degree of correlation was found between subjective score of drapeability and drape coefficient.nWe defined the tracking criterion to investigate the relevance between subjective drape score and mechanicalnparameters. An intelligent system based on fuzzy logic for correlating the drapeability and most relevant mechanicalnparameter was developed.