Author : Md. Shakhawat Hossain

Pilling affecting handle and appearance, is undesirable problem in CVC single jersey knit fabric as like any others fabric. To get rid of pilling tendency from the CVC knit fabric singeing and heat setting play a vital role. If singeing and heat setting treatment are both done for the CVC knit fabric at pre-stage of pretreatment, then there can be found a significant improvement of pilling property. In this study, practically it has been shown that the pilling tendency of CVC knit fabric can be reduced easily by singeing and heat setting keeping the other physical and chemical properties unaffected.

Keywords: CVC knit Fabric, Pilling properties, Singeing, Heat setting

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.7, No.1 (Feb-2017)