The Effect of Wet Processing on the Comfort and Mechanical Properties of Fabrics Made from Cotton Fibres and Its Blends with Modal and Tencel Fibres in Weft

In this modern era, customers demand improved functional fabrics along with some other properties. The product developments can be done in various methods; the blending of various fibres to make fabric with enhanced properties is one of them. The wet processing can affect the comfort properties of fabrics made out of different fibrous material. Here, the effect of wet processing (scouring and dyeing) was studied on the comfort and other properties of plain-woven fabrics made using weft of 100% cotton,  50:50 cotton/tencel and 50:50 cotton/modal blend was studied. The results reveal that the air permeability decreases in all samples (100% cotton fabric, cotton/modal blended fabric and Tencel/cotton blended fabric) after scouring but no significant change has been seen after dyeing. The overall moisture management capacity increases significantly in all samples after scouring and further increases after dyeing. Fabric strength increases after scouring and decreases after dying. The fabric bending modulus decreases after scouring in all fabric samples and there is not significantly change has been seen after dyeing.