A smart material includes a composite textile that includes a textile substrate and a material disposed via an additive manufacturing technique onto the textile substrate based on an additive manufacturing pattern. The composite textile includes a gradient in least one of mechanical property, material property, or structural property and/or exhibits a change in at least one mechanical property, material property, or structure in response to at least one external stimulus.

A synthetic fiber blend fabric is disclosed. The synthetic fiber blend fabric is a woven fabric that is made from blended yarns each obtained by mix spinning of three or more kinds of fibers including wool fibers, polyester fibers, and acrylic fibers, or is a woven fabric mainly consisting of the blended yarns. Each of the blended yarns contains the three or more kinds of fibers blended therein so as to be approximately uniformly distributed at a prescribed blending ratio along a longitudinal direction of the blended yarn. The blended yarn has a total content of the wool fibers, the polyester fibers, and the acrylic fibers of 90 mass % or more and 100 mass % or less. The acrylic fibers have a fineness of 0.5 dtex or more and 1.4 dtex or less.

The present invention aims at providing a blended yarn with which a knitted or woven body, wherein a decrease in tension and stiffness due to moistness is reduced, can be manufactured, even in a case where the blended yarn is used for the manufacture of the knitted or woven body; a knitted or woven body of the same; and a method for manufacturing the knitted or woven body. The blended yarn according to the present invention comprises a modified fibroin fiber and a regenerated cellulose fiber.

Flame resistant fabrics that provide protection against molten metal splash but that have improved comfort at a lower cost by predominantly locating the protective molten metal shedding fibers on the front face of the fabric. Concentrating the protective fibers predominantly on the front face of the fabric still provides good protection against molten metal adherence and allows for more comfortable and less expensive fibers to be used on the back face of the fabric positioned next to the wearer. In this way, overall protection of the fabric is maintained while improving comfort. Embodiments of such fabrics may also achieve NFPA 70E PPE Category 2 protection, for example 8 cal/cm.sup.2 arc rating whether ATPV or EBT.

Methods of using of natural or engineered proteins such as collagen to form tanned and/or crosslinked fibers suitable for a wide range of textile manufacturing processes, including non-woven, woven and knitted fabrics. In particular, described herein are methods of forming collagen fibers formed from cell-cultured materials by forming a solution of collagen, tanning agent and in some variations cross-linker, and shortly thereafter, extruding collagen fibers. Also described herein are collagen fibers formed by these methods.

A fabric for a pair of jeans is disclosed. The fabric has a plurality of warp threads and a plurality of weft threads. The plurality of warp threads include a jeans warp thread, such as cotton, disposed next to an insulating warp thread, such as wool, in a repeating series. The plurality of weft threads include a plurality of jeans weft threads disposed next to one another in a repeating series. The plurality of warp threads and weft threads are perpendicularly interwoven in a twill weave defining a front side opposite a back side. From the front side of the fabric, each jeans warp thread is woven over three jeans weft threads and under one jeans weft thread in a repeating series. From the front side of the fabric, each insulating warp thread is woven under three jeans weft threads and over one jeans weft thread in a repeating series.

A fabric for a pair of jeans is disclosed. The fabric has a plurality of warp threads and a plurality of weft threads. The plurality of warp threads include a jeans warp thread, such as cotton, disposed next to an insulating warp thread, such as wool, in a repeating series. The plurality of weft threads include a plurality of jeans weft threads disposed next to one another in a repeating series. The plurality of warp threads and weft threads are perpendicularly interwoven in a twill weave defining a front side opposite a back side. From the front side of the fabric, each jeans warp thread is woven over three jeans weft threads and under one jeans weft thread in a repeating series. From the front side of the fabric, each insulating warp thread is woven under three jeans weft threads and over one jeans weft thread in a repeating series.

The disclosure describes implantable bioprosthesis and constructs having an implantable woven ribbon with at least one integrated suture.

The disclosure describes implantable bioprosthesis and constructs having an implantable woven ribbon with at least one integrated suture.

The present invention relates to a carpet with woven surface relief, comprising at least a series of tension warps (1), a series of binding warps (2), said warps (1, 2) being interwoven with a series of weft yarns (3), the ratio of the length of said binding warps (2) relative to the length of said tension warps (1) being greater than 1.20, preferably greater than 1.50.