Abrasion incidents of stiff fabric
Release Time:
2011-05-26 19:56
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China Laundry Journal
Chief Engineer Wu Jingmiao, Beijing Funait Laundry Service Co., Ltd.
In various washing and ironing accidents in the laundry and dyeing industry, clothing wear and abrasion are also quite common. Everyone agrees that gradual natural wear caused by wearing and washing is normal, but some clothes suffer wear accidents after just one wash, which is unacceptable to consumers and often puzzling to the laundry itself. In fact, these wear and abrasion accidents follow certain patterns. We found that most clothes involved in such accidents are made of stiff fabrics or have parts that have become stiff. These wear and abrasion accidents occur both in water washing and dry cleaning; the affected areas are mainly the edges and corners of the clothes, such as collar tips, sleeve edges, and hem corners. Generally, mild cases show whitening due to abrasion, similar to the edges and protruding parts of stonewashed denim jeans. Some not only have whitening at edges and protruding parts but also show fuzzing, while more severe wear and abrasion may result in holes.
1. Types of Clothes Prone to Wear and Abrasion Accidents
Although clothes prone to wear and abrasion accidents vary in type, they all share the common characteristic of being stiff. Common types include:
1. Clothing made from pure cotton canvas and heavy military-style cotton fabrics;
Figure 1 shows a cotton jacket made from pure cotton canvas. Pure cotton canvas is a typical stiff fabric that does not easily fold or bend randomly during washing. Due to machine washing, the edges and corners experience repeated friction, causing the sleeve edges to wear through after washing.
Figure 1: Sleeve edge wear-through on a pure cotton canvas cotton jacket after machine washing
Figure 2 shows a jacket made from heavy fabric, dry cleaned without using a gentle cycle, resulting in whitening at the sleeve edge after dry cleaning.
Figure 2: Whitening at the sleeve edge of a heavy fabric jacket after dry cleaning
2. Clothing made from generally textile fabrics but with compact and dense fabric, possibly with a coated back;
Figure 3 shows an outerwear made from dense fabric, dry cleaned, with whitening occurring at protruding parts such as the front placket and pocket flaps after dry cleaning.
Figure 3: Whitening at protruding parts of dense fabric outerwear after dry cleaning
Figure 4 shows a trench coat made from coated fabric, which after just one machine wash, developed several small holes at the sleeve edge due to wear-through.
Figure 4: Sleeve edge wear-through on a coated fabric trench coat after machine washing
3. Clothing made from heavy composite fabrics;
Figure 5 shows a jacket made from heavy composite fabric, consisting of knitted base cloth and flocking. Because this composite fabric is very thick and stiff, machine washing caused severe damage with flocking falling off at the hem corners.
Figure 5: Severe wear at hem corners of a heavy composite fabric jacket after machine washing
4. Clothing made from fine pure cotton fabrics treated for wrinkle resistance and shrink resistance;
Some fine pure cotton fabrics are treated for wrinkle and shrink resistance, becoming stiff fabrics, and thus are also unsuitable for enduring strong friction. Whether dry cleaning or machine washing, gentle cycles should be used. Figure 6 shows whitening at the edges of wrinkle- and shrink-resistant fabric after machine washing.
Figure 6: Whitening at edges of wrinkle- and shrink-resistant pure cotton jacket after machine washing
5. Some silk fabric clothing uses interfacing in certain parts, creating localized stiff areas.
Silk fabric is very soft and not suitable for machine washing; dry cleaning is safer. However, when a Tang suit uses stiff interfacing in some parts, those parts become stiff and can suffer similar wear and abrasion. Figure 7 shows fuzzing at the sleeve edge of a brocade Tang suit.
Figure 7: Sleeve wear on brocade Tang suit
2. Analysis of Wear and Abrasion Accidents in Stiff Fabrics
The fundamental cause of wear and abrasion accidents in stiff fabric clothing is excessive friction. Under the same force, softer clothes have better tolerance, while stiff fabrics, which do not easily fold or bend randomly, endure stronger friction, resulting in frictional damage. Therefore, there are two different situations causing wear and abrasion accidents in stiff fabrics:
1. Uneven mechanical forces during washing cause varying degrees of friction, leading to surface abrasion and different levels of wear. This often occurs due to uneven force during manual brushing. Figure 8 shows frictional discoloration on canvas jeans caused by improper manual brushing.
Figure 8: Frictional discoloration on canvas jeans caused by improper manual brushing
2. Stiff fabrics washed by dry cleaning or washing machines did not choose a gentle program. During dry cleaning, because the friction force of the standard dry cleaning machine program is not fundamentally different from that of washing machines, the fact that dry cleaning is also a form of machine washing cannot be ignored. A considerable number of wear and damage accidents are caused by this kind of dry cleaning machine washing or washing machine washing. Especially those that show damage at edges and corners after just one wash are caused under such circumstances. Figure 9 shows the frictional color spots caused by machine washing blended corduroy pants.
Figure 9 Frictional color spots caused by machine washing blended corduroy pants.
3. How to prevent wear and damage accidents of stiff fabrics
1. When encountering stiff fabric garments, they need to be treated separately. Whether hand washing or machine washing, an appropriate washing method and program should be selected.
2. When using hand brushing, strictly follow the "three levels and one uniformity" principle of hand brushing to avoid uneven force causing brushing color spots.
3. Garments that require dry cleaning should use the gentle program of the dry cleaning machine to reduce mechanical friction; garments that require washing machine washing should also use a gentle program.
4. For certain special garments, isolation protection or covering protection should be strengthened to prevent unnecessary damage.
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