Textile Fabrics Association

Textile Fabrics Association, 40 Worth St., New York, N. Y. W. P. Fickett, president-treasurer A. W. Davis, secretary. 

STUDY AND RECONSTRUCTION OF EARLY CULTURES usually rely upOU whatever evidence can be recovered from their archaeological contexts. Pottery, stone, and metal artifacts often form the basis for the knowledge of how people lived and worked in the past. Textile fabric products, however, function in much closer associations with people than do the more durable implements. As a result, these products contain valuable information about those who produced, used, and ultimately discarded them. Nevertheless, except in a few rather well-known cases, textile fabrics do not survive the vicissitudes of environmental conditions that follow the final textile use and encourage decay. 

Endovascular prosfheses, assembled from tubular textile fabric and wire stent components, are deployed and expanded non-invasively from catheters for the rq>air of aneurysms in medium and large caliber arteries. Now that the implantation procedure is no longer experimental and these devices are becoming widely accepted and used for a growing cohort of patients, so the incidence of reported cases of late complications continues to grow. Observations from our own implant retrieval programme have led us to report that certain styles and models of endovascular prostheses are associated with particular failure mechanisms, such as endoleaks, migration, thrombosis, stent disruption, as well as fabric distortion and perforation. 

There are a number of key technological specifications that have to be met, for a solar textile to prove viable. The performance of the cells must not be compromised by the textile fabric in particular, there must be efficient and durable conducting paths within the fabric to deliver the current from the solar cells. Moreover, the textile is very likely to contain additives which assist the processing of the fabric, and indeed of the fibres themselves, and additionally enhance the fabric s performance as a product. Not only should the additives not compromise the performance of the solar cells, but also conversely, the solar cells should not impair the performance of the fabric or its associated additives. Where solar cells are bonded to a fabric surface, the surface properties will necessarily be changed. These changes will have implications for the... 

R. J. Harper, Jr., and M. E. Demorais, "Durable-Press Flame Retardant Fabrics Based on the LHPOH—NH Precondinsate System," Hational Technical Conference, AATCC, Montreal, Canada, Oct 6—9, 1985, American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists, Research Triangle Park,... 

Textile technology is used to mechanically or aerodynamicaHy arrange textile fibers into preferentially oriented webs. Fabrics produced by these systems are referred to as dry-laid nonwovens. Dry-laid nonwovens are manufactured with machinery associated with staple fiber processing, such as cards and gametts, which are designed to manipulate preformed fibers in the dry state. Also included in this category are nonwovens made from filaments in the form of tow, and fabrics composed of staple fibers and stitching filaments or yams, ie, stitchbonded nonwovens. 

The properties of textile fibers can be divided into three categories geometric, physical, and chemical, which can be measured with available methods (15—17). Perceived values such as tactile aesthetics, style appearance of apparel fabrics, comfort of hosiery, as weU as color, luster, and plushness of carpets are difficult to quantify and are not always associated with the properties of the fiber, but rather with the method of fabric constmction and finishing. 

Researchers had noted the release of formaldehyde by chemically treated fabric under prolonged hot, humid conditions (85,86). The American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC) Test Method 112 (87), or the sealed-jar test, developed in the United States and used extensively for 25 years, measures the formaldehyde release as a vapor from fabric stored over water in a sealed jar for 20 hours at 49°C. The method can also be carried out for 4 hours at 65°C. Results from this test have been used to eliminate less stable finishes. 

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