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New production method for a plain weave figured fabric

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A new production method for figured fabric has been developed. The figured fabric generated in this study is a plain weave piled fabric and it shows the same figure on both sides unlike those fabrics woven on dobby or jacquard looms. It is woven by a specialty yarn called the chenille yarn which is obtained by separating each warp of a base fabric woven in leno structure. The base fabric is woven by inserting different colored weft each time in a certain sequence arranged according to the target figure image. A CAD software and a computerized controller have been developed to control all the motions of a conventional rapier loom and to handle the numerous weft insertion schedule efficiently.

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  1. Department of Polymer and Fiber System Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 500-757, Korea

    Sungmin Kim

  2. School of Textiles, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, 712-749, Korea

    Joon Seok Lee

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Correspondence to Sungmin Kim.

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Kim, S., Lee, J.S. New production method for a plain weave figured fabric. Fibers Polym 12, 137–141 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12221-011-0137-x

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