A moisture transfer yarn blend and fabric containing a selected of engineered shaped, lobed, deep grooved, channeled, hollow, sheath-core, bi-component polymer silver fibers and bi-component polymer fibers, optionally blended with cylinder or round fibers or natural fibers or a combination. The engineered shaped, lobed, channeled and deep grooved polymer fibers have indentations along the longitudinal side of the fibers. The deep grooved fibers have four to eight deep indentations along the longitudinal side of the fibers and containing grooves in the deepest portion of the indentation.

A fabric-based item may include fabric formed from intertwined strands of material such as intertwined strands of tubing. The strands of material may include electrophoretic ink formed from charged nanoparticles of different colors in fluid. The electrophoretic ink may be contained within strands of tubing or may be enclosed within encapsulation structures such as encapsulation spheres. Encapsulation spheres or other encapsulation structures may be embedded in clear polymer binder within tubing or other strands. Electroluminescent particles may be included in the clear polymer binder. Electric fields can be applied to the electrophoretic ink in a given area of the fabric using conductive strands that overlap the area, using conductive electrodes such as transparent conductive electrodes on strands of tubing, using coaxial electrodes, or using other electrode structures.

A stretch yarn includes a multifilament including fibers having a coiled crimping form in a fiber axial direction, wherein a coil diameter distribution of crimping in the fiber has two or more groups, a ratio of a maximum group average value to a minimum group average value of the coil diameter (a maximum group average value/a minimum group average value) is less than 3.00, and a cross section of the fibers constituting the multifilament is an eccentric core-sheath cross section.

A wrappable woven sleeve includes a wall having opposite edges extending lengthwise between opposite ends. The opposite edges are configured to be wrapped about a central longitudinal axis, whereupon the wall takes on a tubular configuration with an inner surface of the wall bounding an enclosed cavity sized for receipt of an elongate member to be protected therein and an outer surface of the wall facing radially outwardly from the central longitudinal axis. The wall is woven with warp filaments extending generally parallel to the central longitudinal axis and weft filaments extending generally transversely to the warp filaments. One or more of the warp filaments are wire to shield against passage of low frequency EMI. A foil layer is fixed to the outer and/or inner surfaces of the wall to shield against passage of high frequency EMI.

A wrappable woven sleeve includes a wall having opposite edges extending lengthwise between opposite ends. The opposite edges are configured to be wrapped about a central longitudinal axis, whereupon the wall takes on a tubular configuration with an inner surface of the wall bounding an enclosed cavity sized for receipt of an elongate member to be protected therein and an outer surface of the wall facing radially outwardly from the central longitudinal axis. The wall is woven with warp filaments extending generally parallel to the central longitudinal axis and weft filaments extending generally transversely to the warp filaments. One or more of the warp filaments are wire to shield against passage of low frequency EMI. A foil layer is fixed to the outer and/or inner surfaces of the wall to shield against passage of high frequency EMI.

A glass cloth including warp yarns and weft yarns that are glass yarns each formed by bundling 30 to 44 glass filaments each having a circle-equivalent diameter of 3.0 to 4.4 μm, wherein the weaving density of the warp yarns and the weft yarns is 85 to 125 yarns/25 mm, at least either of the warp yarn and the weft yarn is a flat glass yarn formed of flat glass filaments, the weaving density thereof is less than 100 yarns/25 mm, the major axis DL of the flat glass filament is 3.3 to 6.0 μm, the minor axis DS is 2.0 to 3.9 μm, the number of twists T of each of the flat glass yarns is 0.70 twists/25 mm or less, and the number of the flat glass filaments F constituting each of the flat glass yarns, T, DL, and DS satisfy the following expression: $89.0\le F\times \left(\mathrm{DL}\times \left(1-T^{1/2}\right)+\mathrm{DS}\times T^{1/2}\right)/\left(\mathrm{DL}/\mathrm{DS}\right)\le 129.0.$

A glass cloth including warp yarns and weft yarns that are glass yarns each formed by bundling 30 to 44 glass filaments each having a circle-equivalent diameter of 3.0 to 4.4 μm, wherein the weaving density of the warp yarns and the weft yarns is 85 to 125 yarns/25 mm, at least either of the warp yarn and the weft yarn is a flat glass yarn formed of flat glass filaments, the weaving density thereof is less than 100 yarns/25 mm, the major axis DL of the flat glass filament is 3.3 to 6.0 μm, the minor axis DS is 2.0 to 3.9 μm, the number of twists T of each of the flat glass yarns is 0.70 twists/25 mm or less, and the number of the flat glass filaments F constituting each of the flat glass yarns, T, DL, and DS satisfy the following expression: $89.0\le F\times \left(\mathrm{DL}\times \left(1-T^{1/2}\right)+\mathrm{DS}\times T^{1/2}\right)/\left(\mathrm{DL}/\mathrm{DS}\right)\le 129.0.$

Various aspects disclosed relate to structures such as a textile, a garment, a garment component, footwear, or a footwear component. The present disclosure includes the structure having a first region having one of more first fibers. An individual first fiber includes co-extruded first and second filaments, the first filament formed of a first thermoplastic polymeric material. Due to expansion or contraction of the one or more first fibers, the first region contracts or expands on a change in relative humidity, relative to an equilibrium state of the first region prior to the change in relative humidity.

Various aspects disclosed relate to structures such as a textile, a garment, a garment component, footwear, or a footwear component. The present disclosure includes the structure having a first region having one of more first fibers. An individual first fiber includes co-extruded first and second filaments, the first filament formed of a first thermoplastic polymeric material. Due to expansion or contraction of the one or more first fibers, the first region contracts or expands on a change in relative humidity, relative to an equilibrium state of the first region prior to the change in relative humidity.

The present invention relates to a body and hair towel comprising a microfiber interior layer and a silk exterior layer. The novel towel is comprised of a plurality of double layered capsules, wherein each capsule has an interior layer of microfiber material and an exterior layer of silk material. The exterior silk layer on the capsules provides an extremely smooth texture to the towel, thereby making the towel comfortable and convenient to use by people having dry skin, skin conditions or the like, and may also be comfortably used on hair without affecting the health of hair and skin of the users.