A new insight into comfort factor for wool-evoked prickle
One of the key barriers at retail for wool is this perception of wool being prickly and uncomfortable. In the past, woolgrowers have had a test called comfort factor which derived as part of the testing for micron, which is the proportion of wool fibers that are courser than 30 microns. It appears that is not the case. Through axial bending testing of standard wool top fibers, cashmere fibers and alpaca fibers, we find out that the sort of keratin fiber is contributed to that comfort factor at the retail end exactly, as different sorts of keratin fibers have different equivalent bending modulus.
comfort factor bending modulus wool-evoked prickle
Liu Yuqing Wang Ke Yu Weidong
College of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai 200051, China
国际会议
2006中国国际毛纺织会议暨IWTO羊毛论坛(2006 China International Wool Textile Conference & IWTO Wool Forum)
西安
英文
27-32
2006-11-19（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）