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Vasanth Kumar D, Dhanakodi R. Inuence of Moisture Management Properties on Socks Made from Recycled Polyester, Virgin Cotton and its Blends.
FIBRES & TEXTILES in Eastern Europe
2020; 28, 4(142): 76-81.
DOI:
10.5604/01.3001.0014.0939
Inuence of Moisture Management
Properties on Socks Made from Recycled
Polyester, Virgin Cotton and its Blends
DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0014.0939
Abstract
The moisture management properties of socks made from recycled polyester, virgin cotton and
its blends were studied and compared. As an outcome of this research, the OMMC (Overall
Moisture Management Capacity) of socks produced from recycled polyester fabrics gave
higher values than those of virgin cotton fabrics. This result demonstrates that recycled poly-
ester fabrics have good moisture management properties and faster water transport capacity
compared to other fabrics. The lowest OMMC values were observed for virgin cotton fabrics.
Key words: comfort, moisture management, recycled polyester, virgin cotton, recycled
polyester/virgin cotton blend.
Vasanth Kumar Dhanapal1*,
Raja Dhanakodi2
1 VIT Fashion Institute of Technology,
VIT Chennai,
Chennai – 600 127, Tamil Nadu, India,
* e-mail: cuteevasanth@gmail.com
2 Sona College of Technology,
Department of Fashion Technology,
Salem – 636 005, Tamil Nadu, India
to get more information about socks,
and therefore they should be designed
to meet customer loyalty following fash-
ion and functional needs. Likewise, the
performance of socks should satisfy cus-
tomer requirements, and also the bre
blend should not affect consumer health
negatively [27]. Simultaneously, socks
should have exibility, thermo-physio-
logical comfort and protection from wear
and tear. It means giving ideal warmth,
dampness, and airow. Avci. H [1] inves-
tigated the physical and comfort aspects
of socks knitted from cotton, modal,
viscose, bamboo, seacell and soy yarns.
The testing of water vapour conductivity
demonstrated that viscose gave the fewest
qualities, while bamboo-cotton and sea-
cell gave the best results. As for thermal
resistance ndings, modal and soy gave
the most minimal. Cimilli [8] researched
socks with three distinct densities of new
strands like modal, micro-modal, bam-
boo, soy and chitosan. He concluded that
the most worn example was micro-mod-
al. Cotton had the most minimal air-pen-
etrability, while modal samples had the
highest values. Modal samples also gave
higher dampness recuperation results.
Cotton samples had the most noteworthy
values for warm conduction and convec-
tion.
A lot of different kinds of textile wastes
are disposed by both the textile indus-
try and humans annually. Textile waste
which consists of by-product materials
in the form of bre, yarn, and fabric
is known as pre-consumer waste. As
a virgin bre, the most usually preferred
kinds are cotton and polyester. The bre
type utilised as virgin bre and the extent
of it in the yarn is, for the most part, de-
cided by the waste type and yarn count.
Introduction
The human body is an intricate frame-
work that is in harmony with its environ-
ment while acting out its essential capac-
ities appropriately. For individuals heat is
created rapidly in the body during exer-
cise, running, walking, working as well
as resting. The increase in body temper-
ature increases the sweat rate. Generally,
sweat begins to discharge the cooling
arrangement of the body to eliminate sur-
plus heat created in the body. At the point
when the perspiration dissipates from the
skin or fabric texture surface, water va-
pour conveys this excess heat, as a result
of which, the comfort status of the body
is secured [15, 20]. Socks have the dual
purpose of acting as external apparel and
shielding from the cold. Socks are one of
the accessory items that have a minimal
life among garment merchandise since
they can be produced at a lower cost than
other material items and are widely con-
sumed and utilised for style and basic
needs by humans [9]. Also, less airow
occurs in socks enclosed in shoes than
in pieces of clothing on different parts
of the body. There are not many studies
related to the comfort of socks, which are
skin-tight garments of clothing [5, 9, 28].
The aim of this study was to partially ll
this gap by doing an in-depth analysis of
the comfort properties of socks. General-
ly, the quality of socks can vary depend-
ing on many factors: their type, the prop-
erties of yarn used, knitting conditions,
machine parameters, nishing method.
Consumer loyalty has become important,
and customers have turned out to be in-
creasingly mindful of their requirements
by looking for items of progressively
quality. This causes customers to desire
At the point when recovered laments
are acquired from fabric scraps, virgin
polyester bre is economically more fa-
voured than virgin cotton bre in mixing.
The mixing of reclaimed bre with virgin
polyester bre builds the tenacity of the
resultant yarn because of the high bre
strength property of polyester bre. Hal-
imi et al. [13, 14] expressed that bres
acquired from textile material wastes can
be mixed with virgin cotton up to 20%
without recognisable changes in yarn
quality. Necef, Seventekin, and Pamuk
[17] examined the convenience of recy-
cled garments of clothing derived from
fabric texture scraps. For the produc-
tion of single jersey knitted fabrics and
garments, 50% recycled cotton – 50%
polyester and 50% virgin cotton – 50%
polyester yarns were used. The investiga-
tion proposed that garments derived from
fabric scraps could be utilised in the ap-
parel industry.
In another study about fabrics made from
reclaimed bres, the physical proper-
ties of socks produced from a blend of
reclaimed cotton/virgin polyester bres
were compared with those of 100% vir-
gin cotton bres, considering the inu-
ence of combined elastane [12]. The re-
claimed bre socks proved to have lower
air permeability and a higher stitch den-
sity, mass, thickness and pilling tendency
than virgin cotton socks. From the out-
come, it was inferred that just as virgin
cotton bre, recycled bre could be uti-
lised in the manufacture of socks of sat-
isfactory quality by mixing it with virgin
polyester bre. Moisture management
is a fundamental component of a textile
material regarding its comfort appeal.
Mixing and blending also have a vital
role in the moisture-related capability of