This paper presents an image processing tool, part of an image retrieval system, that provides digitization of songket motifs extracted from songket patterns. Songket motifs are acquired from their original songket fabrics and digitized into binary form by using several image processing techniques. This paper describes the digitization process and experiments conducted on fifty textile motifs u...

Background With the expansion of the fashion industry the quantity of industrial pre-consumer textile waste has increased. It is estimated that approximately 10-20% of textiles are wasted during garment manufacture [1]. Reusing pre-consumer textile waste within the fashion supply chain offers many environmental advantages, including: · Directing waste away from landfill and incinerators · Conse...

Mn doped ZnO nanocomposite thin film coated on glass by a simple spin-coating method was used to degrade an azo textile dye from aqueous environment. Mn doped ZnO nanocomposite thin film was characterized by means of X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The photo-reduction activity of photocatalyst was evaluated using an azo textile dye as organic contaminant irradiat...

In the past 25 years we have focused our attention on plasma treatment of textile materials at the University of Wisconsin Madison. This presentation will cover the overview of some of these efforts. In particular, plasma treatments of textile materials to improve properties such as resistance to flame, water repellency, hydrophobicity, and dye-ability will be discussed. These improvements were...

Life-threatening cardiovascular diseases require early detection or diagnosis. A standard procedure, long-term ECG monitoring of cardiac patients is currently the best way to reduce the number of heart failures. Dry and washable textile electrodes embedded in comfortable garment or in a wearable chest belt have been proven very effective for a long-term ECG monitoring in comparison to the conve...

A picture database is being created by collecting textile pictures in order to aid designers from a graphical aspect. Classification of the pictures adopts eight scales ranging each from -3 to +3 based on eight pairs of adjectives in antonyms, such as warm/cool. Our research about the classification was carried out with the data of questionnaires by some thirty inspectors for about fifty sample...

During textile manufacturing processing, it is vital to inspect, detect, assess and rectify defects as soon as they emerge. This is particularly important for fabric engineering and finishing, as the fabric quality directly affects the quality of their final products. In textile industry history, visual inspection and classification were common practice. The nature of traditional manual inspect...

Within the scope of Collaborative Research Centre SFB 639 "Textile-reinforced composite components for function-integrating multi-material design in complex lightweight applications", woven and flat-knitted spacer fabrics from commingled hybrid yarns are developed, pressed and the characteristics of the formed composite structures are tested. The developed spacer fabric structures have Ushaped ...