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Regarding textiles and clothing, current fashion trends are focused on increasing the technicality of the products, with more alert and demanding consumers, looking for functional products such as workwear, sportswear, or day-life clothing, which combine aesthetics and innovation, design, protection, comfort, multifunctionality, fashion, and competitive price. Considering the multidisciplinary project of “New fabrics for high-performance applications based on natural fibers”, this work highlights the application of wool fabrics for leisurewear. Tests were performed in KES-F System to analyze the mechanical properties, under low forces, of tri-laminated wool fabrics with functional membranes, to evaluate parameters such as extensibility, compressibility, shear rigidity, bending rigidity and surface characteristics, to achieve the optimum design of the tri-laminated fabrics considering the best drape and touch. The results of the laboratory tests evaluate four tri-laminates fabrics to identify the best performing membrane and the technical construction of wool fabrics best suited to the tri-laminating process.
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The authors are very grateful for the support given by research unit Fiber Materials and Environmental Technologies (FibEnTech-UBI), on the extent of the project reference UIDB/00195/2020, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) and by the mobilizador project nº 24523 - TexBoost - Less Commodities more Specialities – PPS2 (New materials and advanced applications of natural fibres) AN4, co-supported by Programa Portugal 2020 (PT 2020), in the Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (POCI) and European Union by Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER).
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Reis, B. et al. (2021). Design of Fashionable and Functional Tri-laminated Wool Fabrics for Leisurewear Considering Drape and Touch. In: Shin, C.S., Di Bucchianico, G., Fukuda, S., Ghim , YG., Montagna, G., Carvalho, C. (eds) Advances in Industrial Design. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 260. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80829-7_81
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