The pilling characteristics of commercially available polyester/cotton blended fabrics in the grey and finished conditions as well as of those produced in the laboratory under controlled conditions have been investigated. The structure of pills and the nature of fibres that go into pill formation in various types offabrics have been examined microscopically and the influence of various fibre, y...

Fabric pilling is considered a performance and aesthetic property of the woven products that determine its quality. The subjective evaluation of the fabric pilling results in misleading values that depend on the measurement standard even for the same sample. This work utilizes some textural features extracted from the fabric’s images to obtain better representative and quantitative values of th...

Whilst a formal statistical analysis of any experimental data is always preferable in principle, in the case of Pilling et al. (PLoS ONE 8:e77193, 2013), it is hard to see how the results of any formal analysis-including those provided by Schick et al.-could be considered reliable. Regardless of the issue of statistical analysis, there was a wealth of valuable and novel biological and chemical ...

The published Commentary by Hoppe et al. (Environ Sci Eur 27-28, 2015) makes a number of strong criticisms of Pilling et al. (PLoS One 8:e77193, 2013), which this authors' response will show are either wrong, inaccurate or misleading. A selection of these misrepresentations include a claim that technical thiamethoxam was used rather than the commercial product. This is not true. Pilling et al. ...

This study is focused on the hairiness of worsted wool yarns and how it affects the pilling propensity of knitted wool fabrics. Conventional worsted ring spun yarns are compared with comparable Solospun yarns and yarns modified with a hairiness reducing air nozzle in the winding process (JetWind). Measurements of yarn hairiness (S3) on the Zweigle G565 hairiness meter shows a reduction in the S...

In this work, the quality of four plain single jersey weft-knitted fabrics (produced from same flax yarn) having different structural characteristics (stitch density, weight, and thickness) before after pilling, was examined. The knitted evaluated in terms their compression (compressibility, thickness loss, compressive resilience), comfort (air permeability water retention), strength (bursting ...

The chemical recycling of hemp fabric into high-tenacity man-made cellulose fibers was demonstrated. laundered 25 and 50 times to mimic the wear cycles post-consumer textile waste. Despite launderings, molar mass material still too high for via dry-jet-wet spinning. Thus, fabrics were treated with an aqueous sulfuric acid solution adjust intrinsic viscosity targeted level 400–500 ml/g. hydrolyz...