Improving the thermal comfort of bamboo & bamboo blended fabrics for sports head scarves | ||||
| International Design Journal | ||||
| Article 8, Volume 10, Issue 4, October 2020, Page 131-137 PDF (686.49 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/idj.2020.38068.1006 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Khaled Mansour Nassar   1; Nahla Mohsen2; Eman Abou Taleb3
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| 1Textiles dept., Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University, Giza, Egypt. Textiles dept., Faculty of Applied Arts, Badr University, Badr City, Egypt. | ||||
| 2Department of Weaving and Spinning, Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University, Egypt | ||||
| 3Department of Weaving and Spinning, Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| In this work, the thermal comfort properties of bamboo & bamboo blended women’s head scarves that are worn by females during sports events have been investigated. Comfort can be described by the physically relaxed state that is devoid from any pain. The studied samples were single jersey knitted fabrics. All Samples were with the same loop-length from three different types of fibres. The three fibres types are bamboo, cotton, polyester microfiber and their blends with various feeder arrangements. Linear density of bamboo and cotton yarns were 30/1 Ne. Polyester microfiber yarns with Liner density 150 D/144f were used. Results showed that even with same blend ratios, the arrangement of the yarns inside the fabric has an effect on fabric thickness. Moreover, bamboo fabrics scored the lowest weight due to their low specific density which greatly enhances the comfort levels compared to the other samples. Compared to all samples, Bamboo samples excelled in both thermal conductivity and Qmax tests. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Thermal comfort; thermal conductivity; bamboo; microfiber; head scarves | ||||
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