Effects of sewing thread filament fineness on moisture management properties of seams

Authors

  • M Maanvizhi VIT Fashion Institute of Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai 600 127, India
  • C prakash Department of Handloom and Textile Technology, Indian Institute of Handloom Technology, Nadia 741 402, India
  • V Ramesh Babu Department of Textile Technology, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore 641 049, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56042/ijftr.v49i3.12521

Keywords:

Comfort, Moisture management, Micro-denier polyester, Sewing thread, Seam properties, stitch density

Abstract

To study the impact of micro-denier filament on seam comfort properties, five different micro-denier polyester filament
threads with different fibre fineness (from medium-fine to micro fibres) have been studied. Sewing threads of 150 deniers
are made of textured micro-denier polyester filaments with five different filament numbers, viz 3.94 dpf, 3.1 dpf, 1.38 dpf,
1.04 dpf, and 0.52 dpf; calculated based on the number of filament within the specified fibre diameter. The stitch density 10
stitches/inch is used. It is concluded that wetting time, absorption rate, and spreading speed have improved when the
filament fineness is varied from 3.94 dpf to 1.38 dpf and dropped from 1.38 dpf to 0.52 dpf. The seam constructed with 1.38
dpf shows the optimum level of moisture management capacity. OMMC values are also indicating the same results.
Increasing filament fineness brings about an increase in air permeability and moisture vapour transmission from the seam
made with 3.94 dpf to the seam made with 0.52 dpf, attributable to enhance the availability of free air in the seam structure.

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Published

2024-10-08

Issue

Vol. 49 No. 3 (2024): Indian Journal of Fibre & Textile Research

Section

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