Methods of Textile Making I

Teachers in charge

prof. dr. sc. Ivana Salopek Čubrić

SURADNICI

izv. prof. dr. sc. Dragana Kopitar

Study, Module

Textile and Fashion Design - graduate, Module Textile Design

Course summary

4 (1+3+0)

ECTS

5

Knowledge verification

preliminary exam

Precondition for testing

Regular attendance of lectures

Lecture type

lectures

Exercise type

audio practice, laboratory practice, workshops

Subject content

Division and count system of yarns. Fibres for the production of yarns. Routes and techniques for the production of yarns. Construction parameters of spun, plied, cabled and filament yarns. Yarn twist. Structure and properties of ring-spun, rotor-spun, cover, aerodynamic and friction yarns. Fancy yarns. Yarns with new properties. Yarn quality parameters. Practical yarn manufacturing on the ring and rotors spinning machines. Spinning twisted yarn on the hollow spindle spinning machine. Fibres for manufacturing nonwovens. Methods of manufacturing nonwovens. Structure and properties of nonwovens. Nonwovens with specific technical parameters and properties.

Aim of course

The aim of the course is to study basic routes of manufacturing yarns of cotton, wool and staple man-made fibres and blends of natural and man-made fibres. The student studies construction yarn and nonwoven parameters as well their basic finishing treatments.

Literature necessary for course

McCreight D. J., R. W. Feil, J. H. Booterbaugh, E. E. Backe: Short staple yarn manufacturing, Woodhead Publishing Limited, 1999 Albrecht W., H. Fuchs, W. Kittelmann: Nonwoven Fabrics, WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH&Co.KgaA, Weinheim, 2003

Supplement literature

Articles published in the Textile Journal, Zagreb Articles from Technical Encyclopedia: Fibres, Spinning Grupa autora: Teksitlni priručnik, Tekstilni inštitut, Maribor