Journal of Textile Science & Engineering

Complete garment knitting technology is a method of producing products, generally fashion garments, readymade directly in the knitting machine without operations such as cutting and sewing. This makes it possible to manufacture a fashion garment with fewer processes then with conventional methods. Mass customisation is a customer co-design process of products and that tries to meets the needs of an individual customer's demand. The customer can order a garment with a customised style, colour, size, and other personal preferences. Co-design is a collaborative process between the customer, the retailer, and the manufacturer by which a product is customised to fulfil the customer's requirements. This paper is based on the results of a doctoral thesis. The process of codesign and manufacture of a customised complete fashion product is examined. Research was conducted by a retail concept simulation and three case studies. A cross-case analysis was done to analyse the data. The main findings are a description of two kinds of retail concepts for knitted customized fashion products. A knitted garment can be customized, produced, and delivered to the customer in three to five hours. In the Co-design process two kinds of interactions are feasible between the company and the customer: manual or digital co-design. A manual process has advantages such as: high service level for customers, no requirement of advanced technical equipment. However, manual co-design is labour intensive, a shop assistant can only serve one client at a time. It is also only pplicable to brick-and-mortar stores and not transferable to the Internet. Digital codesign, on the other hand, encourages customers to do the customisation on their own, without the aid of sales personnel and little risk of queues. Moreover, this technique is ideal for the Internet. Disadvantages to date have included limited design options and problem of taking body measurements.

The unique woven structure and special fabric texture of georgette make georgette-painting practice unparalleled compared with many other silk painting practices. This study aims to discover the artistic expression of georgette from four aspects: subjects for georgette painting, forms of georgette painting, colors of georgette painting and textures of georgette painting. Experimental hand painting practices and comparisons are carried out as study methods. This paper finds out: the subjects for georgette painting is closely associated with the feature of fabric; the feature of georgette fabric may limit the delicacy of painted patterns; the colors for georgette painting could present imaginational and mysterious artistic blending and transformation; thorny lines and zigzag pattern edges are two of georgette-painting textures. Besides art area, painted georgette fabric could be further applied for design areas such as garment design, accessory design and space decoration design

Through this paper may be able to consider re-engineering of business processes, as well as the impact of e-business on the productivity of companies. In addition, turning the attention to the fact that the re-engineering the company needed to implement a special project, so that all participants in the redesign process can give their maximum contribution. Also, it is necessary to pay attention to the fact that the company ended the reenginering should regularly analyze the redesigned processes and enter the newspaper of the time. Should be taken into account the role of information technology and, of course, management throughout the process. In the case study company Passage Group, shows the process of re-engineering the marketing department, and who should adapt to all other sectors in this company. Regarding the aspect of E-business, described the programming software, which the company benefits and the changes that followed the implementation and use.

Slub yarns are widely used in Single Jersey knitted fabrics to improve their appearance. This research aims to study the influence of slub yarn ratio on physical and mechanical properties of Single Jersey knitted fabric. Ten single jersey knitted fabrics were produced using four different ratios of slub yarns at two levels of ground yarn counts. Physical properties of knitted fabric were measured such as fabric density, thickness, shrinkage, spirality, color properties and thermal comfort properties. Also, mechanical properties of knitted fabric were measured including bursting strength and abrasion resistance. Results showed that increasing percentage of slub yarns used up to 50% improved fabric density, spirality and shrinkage after repeated washing, while the weight loss percent due to abrasion decreased. Fabric thermal resistance increased and air permeability decreased; while there were no significant changes observed in other measured properties.

Pre-treatment of cotton fabric prior to dyeing mainly involves a combined process consisting of scouring and peroxide bleaching. In this study main focus on to find out the major problem facing during dyeing of cotton fabrics. Pretreatment process has a greater impact on whiteness and dyeing properties of fabrics and also on environment. There are two process of pretreatment which is alkaline scouring and bleaching process and another is enzymatic scouring and bleaching process, between this two processes comparison and also observation its effects on whiteness of fabric, dyeing also impact on environment. It is also observe that the 3 gL-1 hydrogen peroxide and 2 gL-1 sodium hydroxide give the good result on fabric whiteness with low environmental impact. Different pre-treated sample of cotton fabric dyed with reactive dye. The result obtain from dyed samples the combine pre-treatment by enzymatic scouring and bleaching gives good alternative of alkaline scouring bleaching process. Since it produce low BOD, COD and TOC impact on ecological factor. Furthermore it is also added advantages that it produces same whiteness and lower hydrolysation of dyestuff and good exhaustion.

Safety belts are the life saving product for the persons working on high rise buildings, factories etc. The objective of this research work is to investigate the effect of various constructional variables on the properties and performance of safety belts. The samples were prepared using different denier of polyester filament yarn. Box-Behnken design of experiments with 3 factors and 3 levels has been used for the sample plan, the statistical analysis and the optimization. The results showed that the number of warp yarn is the most influencing parameter for strength and elongation of safety belts followed by the weft density and warp denier respectively.

Peoples mind, behavior and attitude are changed very quickly for the globalization and technology. Now a day’s Bangladeshi young customers are well informed about the clothing items and they spent more time for this. This paper explores Bangladeshi young customers buying behavior when they go to purchase different fashion items liket- shirt, polo shirt, shirt and pant. Data is collected from 350 people from different area of Dhaka, Savar and Gazipur. Data is analyzed as first priority and second priority label for each fashion item. This research helps to know which brand product are got most priority for a particular item, which brand is doing well business in Bangladeshi fashion market etc. Many fashion maker or brand developer is helped by that to improve their fashion marketing, increasing customer demands and build a strong relationship with the customer.

Utilization of underexploited natural fibres are not only the major thrust area in the international scenario but also the need of the hour. Blending of different fibres having similar or different properties is an important issue globally in the area of textiles. Blending of indigenous ramie with acrylic will help development of textiles with better functional properties by combining positive features of both the fibres. The mechanical properties of blended yarns and performance of indigenous ramie-acrylic blends on conventional jute spinning frame reveals that properties of fibre like tenacity, fineness and breaking extension mainly governs the tensile characteristics of the blended yarn. The critical blend level for 4 denier acrylic fibre and indigenous ramie has been found to be 62/38. The theoretical and actual blend composition by chemical method reveals matching with each other.