In fashion business customer demand is changing due to fashion trends and new designs. Time from customer demand to customer demand fulfillment is essential for company’s ability to compete in the fashion retailing business. During the last 20 years there has been a dramatic technical development in the production of flat knitted garments. This has made it possible to rationalize design and pro...

This paper suggests an approach to CAD system development based on its creation as a set of programming modules. Some of these modules can be used in next generation of CAD systems or they can be embedded in another CAD software. The main reason to create such project is that it can be used as software application from fashion designers to make boutique collections of knitting products. The pro...

Fabric defect inspection is necessary and essential for quality control in the textile industry. Traditionally, fabric inspection to assure textile quality is done by humans, however, in the past years, researchers have paid attention to PC-based automatic inspection systems to improve the detection efficiency. This paper proposes a novel automatic inspection scheme for the warp knitting machin...

The recent resurgence of knitting is an ambiguous social phenomenon because it has pre-industrial connotations in late modern society. Knitting is inherently an ambiguous practice which blurs the boundary between production and consumption, the material and the mental and subject and object. This paper explores Korean knitting practice from the angle of social practice. An examination of knitti...

Prolonged drying times of terry fabrics is a problem as they can not be re-used until completely dry. To resolve this issue, we have designed sandwich polyester in the mid-layer with low moisture content that could reduce time excellent wicking properties. These are widely used activewear and sportswear. The effect different softeners on management properties weft-knitted fabrics’ for various a...

The structural characteristics, dimensional change after four washing cycles, non-creasing properties and air permeability of Swiss double piqué knitted fabrics from cotton/flax (70% cotton, 30% flax), PAN/flax PAN, flax) 100% flax yarns have been investigated. These fabric samples varying densities were produced on a 10 -gauge circular knitting machine. results investigation showed that the in...