An Empirical Analysis on Seam Quality of Cotton Woven Fabrics for Different Sewing Condition
This research aims an empirical analysis on seam quality of cotton woven fabrics for three different sewing conditions. Different weight ranged eight commercial cotton woven fabrics were chosen as samples in this research. Two experiments were conducted in this research: sewing of fabric samples and seam quality measurement. Sewing of fabric samples were done under three different sewing conditions. In all these conditions sewing was done on the industrial sewing machine under different sewing parameters that commercially adopted by the apparel manufacturers in apparel manufacturing. The most conventional plain seam (ISO 1.01.01) was selected for the study. All fabric samples were sewn by single needle lockstitch (ISO 301). The stitch densities were 6 stitch/inch, 10stitch/inch, and 14stitch/inch for sewing condition 1, 2 and 3 respectively. Seam quality measurements were done by seam efficiency and seam puckering. We analyzed all the seam quality factors (seam efficiency and seam puckering) of cotton woven fabrics in warp and weft directions by graphical representation between correlation coefficient of fabric properties with seam quality and sewing thread size for three different sewing conditions. Our findings observed that sewing conditions would affect the seam quality irrespective of the fabrics weight. It was also observed that impact of sewing condition 3 is more than other sewing conditions in both of the fabric directions. In sewing condition 3 seam efficiency increases significantly however it is the causes of poor seam puckering. The findings of this study will provide valuable information regarding seam quality to the apparel manufacturers and will help to understand the impact of sewing conditions on seam quality in apparel manufacturing. It will also help the apparel manufacturers to achieve required seam quality for different types of fabrics and to select the sewing thread according to fabric properties. Former studies only focus on the relationship between fabric and seam quality. In the present study, we took a step forward by empirical analysis to understand the correlation between sewing condition and seam quality for cotton woven fabrics.
Mr. Sumit Mandal Dr. Frency Ngi Dr. Patrick Hui
Institute of Textiles & Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
国际会议
苏州
英文
291-299
2007-09-13（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）