Disclosed is a skin cooling fabric that can provide a user with a soft tactile sensation as well as a cooling feeling or a cooling sensation, a polyethylene yarn having improved weavability, and a method for manufacturing the yarn. The skin cooling fabric of the present invention includes a plurality of weft yarns, and a plurality of warp yarns, wherein each of the weft yarns and warp yarns has a tensile strength of 3.5 to 8.5 g/de, a tensile modulus of 15 to 80 g/de, elongation at break of 14 to 55%, and crystallinity of 55 to 85%.

Aspects herein are directed to a composite nonwoven textile that includes non-linear entangled seams and method and systems for producing the same. The composite nonwoven textile includes at least a first nonwoven layer, a second layer, and a fill material positioned between the first nonwoven layer and the second layer. When the composite nonwoven textile is formed into a garment, the regions between the non-linear entangled seams may help store and retain heat to provide insulation, and the non-linear entangled seams may help prevent shifting or drift of the fill material.

Aspects herein are directed to a composite nonwoven textile that includes non-linear entangled seams and method and systems for producing the same. The composite nonwoven textile includes at least a first nonwoven layer, a second layer, and a fill material positioned between the first nonwoven layer and the second layer. When the composite nonwoven textile is formed into a garment, the regions between the non-linear entangled seams may help store and retain heat to provide insulation, and the non-linear entangled seams may help prevent shifting or drift of the fill material.

Aspects herein are directed to a composite nonwoven textile that includes non-linear entangled seams and method and systems for producing the same. The composite nonwoven textile includes at least a first nonwoven layer, a second layer, and a fill material positioned between the first nonwoven layer and the second layer. When the composite nonwoven textile is formed into a garment, the regions between the non-linear entangled seams may help store and retain heat to provide insulation, and the non-linear entangled seams may help prevent shifting or drift of the fill material.

The present invention relates to textile garments and articles including a functional indicator, and more specifically to textile garments and articles having an indicator that presents a visual change as a function of number of washes and/or active compound concentration. The present invention also discloses systems and methods for using the textile garments and articles including the functional indicator.

Flame resistant fabrics formed with fiber blends that provide the requisite flame and thermal protection but that have improved durability. In some embodiments this is accomplished with the use of fiber blends that include relatively large percentages of FR nylon fibers in combination with cellulosic and inherently flame resistant fibers.

An apparatus and method of manufacturing same is provided. The apparatus comprises a base layer integrated with an article; an electrode mounted adjacent to a conductive layer, both the electrode and conductive layer mounted on the base layer; an active electrode board in electrical communication with the conductive layer and the electrode, the active electrode board configured receive and/or send electrical signals from the electrode. The electrode comprises filaments or filament yarn knitted into a textile. The filaments or filament yarn comprise thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) blended with one or multiple conductive filler/s for improving impedance at the skin-electrode interface.

The present invention provides an anti-pilling wool fabric with a coating having pilling resistance and resistance to fiber loss from fabric surface. The coating is formed by a coating formulation including at least two diisocyanates, at least two catalyst, a water dispersing agent, a buffer and water, which provides a polycarbodiimide crosslinker reactive to the relative less reactive groups on polypeptide of the wool fabric and promotes crosslinking between polypeptides of the wool fabric under relatively mild processing conditions so as to enhance mechanical strength of the wool fabric whilst no significant effect of the original finish merino wool fabric and/or garment and fiber loss from fabric surface are observed, compared to conventional treatment methods on wool fabric. A corresponding coating formulation and method of fabricating the anti-pilling wool fabric are also provided. The present invention is applicable to finished wool fabric which fibers are already with colorant(s), and/or dye(s), and/or reactive dye(s).

Disclosed is a polyethylene yarn which enables the manufacture of a skin cooling fabric having dimensional stability and having improved weavability which enables the manufacture of a skin cooling fabric capable of providing a user with a soft tactile sensation as well as a cooling sensation, a method for manufacturing the same, and a skin cooling fabric including the same. The polyethylene yarn has a shrinkage stress at 70° C. and 100° C. of 0.005 to 0.075 g/d, respectively. Also, the polyethylene yarn has a “dry thermal shrinkage rate at 70° C.” of 0.1 to 0.5%, a “dry thermal shrinkage rate at 100° C.” of 0.5 to 1.5%, and a “wet thermal shrinkage rate at 100° C.” of 0.1 to 1%.

An article including one or more moisture wicking layers and one or more fibrous layers. The fibrous layers may have generally vertically oriented fibers, which may be oriented generally perpendicularly to a surface having or producing moisture. The article may be adapted to remove moisture form the surface having or producing moisture. The article may be breathable. The article may be quick drying. The article may provide cushioning. The article may be a wearable item.