Africa, both francophone as well as anglophone, has traditionally been an important cotton production base. Cotton produced in Africa is mainly exported by international merchants to Asia, where today almost 80% of world cotton fibre is processed into yarn. Fibre transformation rates in Africa are at a historic low, with only 5% of francophone and 43% of anglophone African cotton being processe...

Diabetes has become a major public health problem and grows rapidly in the most developed countries of the world. Beside genetic and environmental factors, lifestyle habits play an important role in the development and progression of diabetes mellitus. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) about 15% of diabetic patients develop a foot ulcer in need of medical care. Infection is a ser...

Exposure to cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) dust can result in acute pulmonary inflammation marked by elevation of neutrophils in nasal and bronchoalveolar lavage fluids and activation of alveolar macrophages. Such exposure may also result in chest tightness and airway constriction. For this reason, OSHA has established a PEL of 0.2 mg/m for yarn manufacturing and cotton washing. This PEL is for...

The aim of this research was to study the effect fabric structure parameters on dimensional stability a woven 100% cotton after five cycles domestic washing. Ten fabrics with different (yarn density, linear yarn cover factor, weave pattern) were exposed washing process and dried hung in line position. changes measured each drying cycle then expressed as percentage initial dimensions. experiment...

One of the main reasons for nonlinearity tension diagrams cotton yarns is variability their moduli elasticity and plasticity under strain. The changes in strain obtained from tensile confirm this. curve has ten parameters, values which depend on method yarn manufacture rate. Based results processing yarn, by carded combed systems ring rotor spinning (CD-carded ring-spun, OE-carded rotor-spun, C...

This research study experimentally analyzed the effect of ring and rotor yarns which are 100% cotton spun yarn with 30s Ne count on physical comfort characteristics single jersey, rib, interlock knitted fabrics. The such as fabric Thickness, Tightness factor, Bursting strength, Abrasion resistance, Pilling behavior were studied according to ASTM Standard statistically using Minitab software ANO...

This paper uses new micro-level US data to re-examine productivity leadership in cotton spinning c. 1900. We find that output aggregation problems make the Census unreliable in this industry, and that Lancashire, not New England was the productivity leader for almost every type of yarn. This is true both for the operation of a given machinery type, and when comparing machinery typical in each c...

This article provides a knitting method for warp-knitted fabrics with good moisture management performance. By adjusting of the warp machine (mainly bar), design lay-up yarn, selection and let-off tension, yarn covering relationship has been adjusted. using two kinds fineness polyester DTY, cotton spandex, designing warp-knitting structures, six different have knitted. The performance these kni...