The slump in the world economy has become morepronounced. Consumers arebecoming more thrifty. UmeshSharma looks at howthe textile industry can tide over the situation.

 

It is time forpeople involved in the textile value chain, especially knitting and weavingcompanies, garment companies, fashion designers and clothing brands tounderstand where they are and find ways to improve value of end products. Theycan do so by controlling cost and at the same time communicate clearly withconsumers by giving exciting value enhancement like reasons to buy.

 

Traditionally, buyerskeep their eyes peeled for the look and touch of the fabric. These parametersinfluence buying decisions of most fashion designers, people involved in thefashion industry and brand buyers. Generally, yarn parameters are ignored. Manytimes, we have seen several dissatisfied consumers because the garment is madewith fabric that cannot hold its own after a couple of washes and loses itslooks.


The question beforeyarn spinning companies is, how to make a spun yarn that can be woven orknitted with better performance on machines? This yarn ought to provide processsaving without a costly chemical treatment during the fabric finishing process.

 

Ironically, there areno yarn quality standards from yarn to fabrics. The standards are for yarnproduction parameters. They are not prerequisites for fabrics. Knitted and wovenfabric productions levels are often chosen through trial and error or byexperimental approaches using one-time experiments or based on past experiencewith the particular yarn being used. The idea is to study yarn characteristics andproperties and understand how that can influence knitted fabrics to proposecost-effective value enhancing features.

 

The characteristic propertiesof spun yarns have significant influence on the performance of subsequentfabric manufacturing operations as well as the end-product quality. Severalfabric properties such as strength, handle, elongation, covering factor,resistance to abrasion, ease of dyeing, and wearing comfort are affected byyarn properties to varying degrees.

 

Along with aforesaid characteristics, there aresome fabric-related problems like hairiness. Even with controlled yarnparameters, some fibres have the tendency to be more fibrous, like syntheticfibre. Examples include viscose and polyester. Once fabrics are made usingthese fibres, even with controlled yarn parameters, high hairiness and pillingproblems can be seen in garments. So the solution will be to use Lopil Brand vortexyarn from Lucky Spinning. With good understanding of types of fabrics and end garmentsrequirements, required quality standards and adequate technology can be chosen.