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This research concern on producing upholstery fabrics designs inspired from Islamic art which glowing in dark using strontium aluminate Phosphor. Photoluminescent (PL) material such as Phosphor of strontium aluminate (SrAl2O4: Eu2+, Dy3+) is a kind of energy storage material, it can absorb both ultraviolet (UV) and visible lights from the sunlight and keeps emitting light for a period of time in absence of the illumination source at a certain wave length. The research focused on Islamic art as a source of inspiration due to its richness in the floral, geometric, written, abstract and symbolic motifs. So that we use two pure cotton fabrics (100%) with different operational specifications, one of them (plain 1/1) and the other sample (Basket 3/3). These fabrics were used for producing the (PL) upholstery fabrics with seven different concentrations of strontium aluminate Phosphor (SAOED) pigment ranged from (1: 7 wt.%) using a hand printing method to produce fourteen samples. Our findings that there is a direct relationship between air permeability, bending length in weft & warp direction, tensile strength, elongation and the concentrations of (SAOED). The best sample performance evaluated by radar chart for the given properties is sample (A1) with the quality factor percentage (83.4%). According to the quality factor test result the research team decided applied the five innovate designs inspired from islamic art with the same specification of the sample which achieved a high functional property. The statistical analysis of the questionnaire results shows that the best design idea evaluated by radar chart (design two) with the quality factor percentage (86.4%). Therefore, using strontium aluminate Phosphor is considered a technological method that enriches the aesthetics and functional properties of the upholstery fabric design

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Bed sheet is one of the most important items of interior furnishings, these bed sheet fabrics need to ensure the comfort level of the human and needs to be manufactured with a high comfort property. Recently, the requirements in terms of comfort properties are widely linked to the use of new cellulosic fibers. Therefore, this research aims to investigate the relationship between different weft materials, weave structures and the comfort properties of produced bed sheet fabrics. For this objective, six bed sheet samples were produced varying in weave structure (basket 2/2 & Piqué) and three different weft materials (bamboo, Tencel & viscose pcm). Comfort properties, porosity, horizontal wicking rate, stiffness and air permeability of all the fabric samples were determined. Our finding showed that there is a direct relationship between horizontal wicking rate and packing factor of produced fabrics, while the fabric porosity affects on the rate of air volume flowing through fabric, the fabric stiffness was influenced by the areal density of produced fabrics. The best sample performance evaluated by radar chart is sample (S6) manufactured with Bamboo material for wefts & Piqué weave structure, with the quality factor percentage reached to (82.4%) Paper

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