Improving overall moisture content of friction yarn for its use in foundation garments – part 2

Among the modern high technologies for producing spun yarns, friction spinning has some advantages over the others due to lower production cost. But its main disadvantage is the harsh feel due to the wrapper fibres of the sheath1. In order to increase the comfort-related properties of friction-spun yarn, Merati and Okamura used hollow yarn. They succeeded in getting the enhanced comfort with hollow yarn but they were unable to minimize the harsh feel4 in fabric in this work harsh feel is reduced and comfort properties are enhanced.