Performance of Jute Cotton and Viscose Blended Woven Fabrics Compared to Hundred Percent Cotton Woven Fabrics: Regarding Mechanical and Comfort Properties.

Abstract

Jute is our golden fibre. Jute was confined in manufacturing only traditional ropes, hessian, sacking and carpet backing cloth (CBC) etc. Jute sector is facing tremendous challenges due to industrial revolution and cheap synthetic materials. To sustain jute in competitive market, it is inevitable to diversify and value addition in jute and jute goods. Blended yarn from jute-cotton-viscose fibre may be one of the important diversifications of jute. Viscose is a regenerated man-made cellulosic fibre. It is also called artificial silk. The purpose of this work is to innovate jute cotton viscose blended fabrics so as to substitute hundred percent cotton cloth. Therefore, mechanical and comfort properties (hand feel and softness) a of jute cotton and viscose blended fabrics have been contrasted with hundred percent cotton fabrics to attain the same or even superior final qualities. Hence, this experiment was undertaken. Here, hundred percent cotton plain woven and blended fabrics (30:40:30 ratio jute cotton and viscose blend yarn) were prepared to evaluate the blended raw fabric with hundred percent cotton fabrics. The mechanical properties (warp-wise and weft-wise tensile and tear strengths, stiffness), rubbing fastness, cover factor, drape coefficient and the comfort properties including air permeability were evaluated. It is found that jute cotton and viscose blended raw fabric shows better, or approximately close results compared to hundred percent cotton fabric. It follows that blended fabrics made of jute cotton and viscose can be used in place of fabrics made entirely of cotton.