**5.3.2 Fabric bending property**

Fig.24 shows bending property of gray and finished fabrics woven by various looms.

First, at the state of gray fabric, warp bending rigidity of gray fabric woven by Picanol looms(air-jet and rapier), which showed low warp yarn tension as shown in Fig.15 and 20, shows low values compared with other rapier looms(THEMA, FAST) and

The Physical Properties of Woven Fabrics

**5.3.4 Fabric surface property** 

property.

**5.3.5 Fabric thickness** 

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Fig. 26. Coefficient of friction of gray and finished fabrics with various looms.

result means that discrete finishing makes fabric surface property deviating.

Fig.27 shows fabric thickness of gray and finished fabrics with various looms.

like weaving tension for the control of even fabric thickness.

Fig.26 shows coefficient of friction of gray and finished fabrics woven by various looms.

As shown in Fig.26, the variation of coefficient of friction (MIU) of gray fabrics ( ) according to the various looms was less than that between right and left sides on the fabric, and the variation of the MIU of finished fabrics by continuous method ( ) according to the various looms was also much less than that between right and left sides on the fabrics. But the variation of finished fabric by discrete finishing method ( ) showed big differences according to various looms and right, center and left sides on the fabric. This

These phenomena also demonstrate the importance of finishing process to the fabric surface

As shown in Fig.27, the variation of the fabric thickness after continuous finishing ( ) did not show anymore among various looms and right, center and left sides on the same fabric. But for the discrete finishing ( ), these variation was shown among looms and according to the position on the fabric. This shows that finishing process is still important

projectile(Sulzer). After gray fabric were finished, the effects of high tension during weaving were remained for the case of continuous finishing, i.e. the variation of bending rigidity among right, center and left sides on the fabrics woven by Rapier looms(Picanol and THEMA) was not shown on the finished fabrics, which showed lower warp tension variation during weaving as shown in Fig.13 and 17. For the rapier(FAST) and projectile(Sulzer) looms, the bending rigidities on the center of the finished fabrics showed the highest values comparing to the right and left sides on the fabrics, which is originated from high warp tension during weaving. And it is shown that there was no variation of the bending rigidity according to the finishing method for the fabrics subjected under low warp yarn tension during weaving, on the other hand, for the fabrics subjected under the high warp yarn tension during weaving, the variation was high as shown in Fig.24.
