In addition to the fabric structure, fabric finishing, but also with the fiber, yarn structure and performance are closely related, of which the structure of the yarn on the fabric is more obvious.

    First, filament (FILAMENT) refers to the continuous fiber, such as silk and synthetic fiber filament when the continuous tow. Usually with a dozen or dozens of single filament together woven together, the fabric surface is smooth, shiny strong, commonly used for summer fabrics.

   Short fiber (SPUN) refers to the length of a few millimeters to tens of millimeters of fiber, such as cotton, wool, linen and other natural fibers, can also be cut by the filament made. Staple fiber must be through the spinning process, so that fiber twist together to form a continuous yarn, for weaving. Short fiber fabric surface hairiness, full fluffy, commonly used in autumn and winter fabrics.

  In addition, the chemical fiber long fiber bundles were cut or broken into a variety of natural fiber length of the fiber, called cut fibers. Short fiber boundaries, the length is generally 35 ~ 150mm. According to the specifications of natural fibers can be divided into cotton, wool type, carpet type and medium and long type of short fibers. They can be pure spun, but also with different proportions of natural fibers or other fiber blends made of yarn, fabric and felt. For example, a carbon fiber having a length of 150 mm and a diameter of 15 μm and having a strength of 800 GPa and a modulus of 41 GPa was mixed with a phenolic carbon fiber (length 70 mm, strength 200 MPa, diameter 14 μm) at a ratio of 8: Stable and uniform the yarn. Woven into various shapes of fabric or chopped fiber for composite materials such as cement, aluminum alloy reinforcement.

   Second, the difference between chemical fiber filament and staple fiber is: filament is the chemical fiber processing to obtain continuous filament, without cutting off process, divided into monofilament and multifilament. Staple fiber is the chemical fibers in the spinning process by the tow by cutting off the various specifications of the length of short fibers.

   Third, short fiber, filament, deformation filament, the structure of various types of yarn performance comparison:

 1. Staple yarn:

  characteristic:

 (1) yarn appearance with hairiness, the fabric has a sense of cotton and wool-type sense of the fabric is not easy to slip.

 (2) has a good hygroscopic properties.

 (3) The fiber strength is low as compared with the filament, so that the fabric has no filament durability.

 (4) fabric easy to pilling, yarn in the fabric is not easy to draw out easily stained.

 (5) coverage, transparency is small.

  2. Smooth filament yarn:

  characteristic:

 (1) the appearance of smooth and compact yarn, silk fabrics have a sense of smooth and shiny surface, easy to spread or move in the fabric.

  (2) small hygroscopicity.

  (3) high fiber strength, the fabric durability.

  (4) fabric is not easy pilling, easy to wire, easy to stain.

  (5) its coverage is small, large transparency.

  3. Deformation filament yarn

  characteristic:

 (1) the appearance of fluffy, both filament fabric and staple fiber fabric appearance, fabric luster is weak, the fabric surface without hairiness, a slight movement in the fabric.

 (2) Hygroscopicity is larger than smooth filament.

 (3) The fiber strength is higher than that of the spun yarn.

  (4) the fabric is not easy to fluff, but may play the ball, may be spinning, than filament yarn stains.

  (5) coverage, transparency is small

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