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The Influence of Moisture Content on Shrinkage of Wool Fabrics during Domestic Tumble Drying Process

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Shrinkage of wool fabrics caused during tumble drying is a serious defect. In the drying process, the felting shrinkage of wool fabrics was influenced by the moisture content and temperature of wool fabric as well as mechanical action being applied on the wool fabric. In the current study, the relationship between moisture content of wool fabrics and shrinkage was studied in the drying programs under no heating condition or heated condition. This study also analyzed shrinkage behaviors of the untreated wool fabric and the Chlorine-Hercosett treated wool fabric with different moisture contents. For the untreated wool fabric, moisture content in the fabric could influence the mechanical properties of wool fibers, resulting in the different extent of felting shrinkage of wool fabric during tumble drying. For the Chlorine-Hercosett treated wool fabric at different initial moisture contents, there was no obvious variation in the length change under no heating condition, but a slight difference in the shrinkage under heated condition. The study could lead to the new guidance for efficient drying of wool fabric with less felting shrinkage.

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The funding supports to this research are provided by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant NO. 2232020G-08), National Key R&D Program of China through project 2019YFB1706304, Shanghai Science and Technology Committee through project 17DZ2202900, Shanghai Summit Discipline in Design through project DD18005, the Institute for Nonlinear Sciences of Donghua University through project INS1901, and China Scholarship Council.

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  1. College of Fashion and Design, Donghua University, Donghua, Shanghai, 200051, China

    Wei Bao & Xuemei Ding

  2. Key Laboratory of Clothing Design & Technology, Donghua University, Ministry of Education, Donghua, Shanghai, 200051, China

    Wei Bao & Xuemei Ding

  3. Textile Engineering and Materials (TEAM) Research Group, School of Fashion and Textiles, De Montfort University, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK

    Wei Bao & Jinsong Shen

  4. Shanghai International Institute of Design & Innovation, Donghua, Shanghai, 200080, China

    Xuemei Ding

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Bao, W., Shen, J. & Ding, X. The Influence of Moisture Content on Shrinkage of Wool Fabrics during Domestic Tumble Drying Process. Fibers Polym 22, 559–566 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12221-021-9207-x

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