21-08-2014, 10:01 AM
Fancy yarns are being produced since centuries for creating special effects in yarn & Fabrics. However, fancy yarns have beeen conventionally produced on doubling machine with suitable attachments. Nowadays new techniques are being used to produce fancy yarn using manmade continous filament yarn. Usually air texturing is being widely used for producing fancy yarns.
One such process is to produce air covered yarn. Using one yarn at core and other as cover yarn. The present work aims at studying properties of air cover yarn and its influence of properties of knitted fabric, using lycra, polyester and nylon yarns.