A method for manufacturing a row of artificial eyelashes, having at least the two following steps of: (a) knitting an assembly for forming rows of artificial eyelashes to be fixed to the edge of an eyelid, this assembly having at least two base parts, at least one of which is intended to be fixed to the edge of an eyelid, which are disposed parallel and symmetrically to one another with respect to a median plane (P), and false eyelashes, each base part having a first warp thread forming stitches, in particular a chain-stitch knitted warp thread, and (b) curving the row of artificial eyelashes and/or the base part and/or the false eyelashes by applying a mechanical load in the presence of an energy stimulus causing the material of the false eyelashes to heat up, in particular by applying ultrasound or high frequencies or by heating.

A polylactic acid fiber is provided. The polylactic acid fiber includes a first polylactic acid material and a second polylactic acid material. The first polylactic acid material is encapsulated by the second polylactic acid material. Based on a total volume of the polylactic acid fiber being 100%, a volume of the second polylactic acid material is at least 20%. The second polylactic acid material includes 15 wt % to 85 wt % of poly(D-lactic acid) and 15 wt % to 85 wt % of poly(L-lactic acid).

Provided is a spunbond nonwoven fabric that is easy to produce due to excellent spinnability and has uniform and sufficient quality including mechanical properties while the spunbond nonwoven fabric is highly filled with an inorganic substance powder. An inorganic substance powder-blended spunbond nonwoven fabric is composed of a fiber, the fiber including: a thermoplastic resin and an inorganic substance powder in a mass ratio of 50:50 to 10:90, and an ethylene-based polymer wax having a weight average molecular weight of 400 or more and 5,000 or less in an amount of 0.1 part by mass or more and 3.0 parts by mass or less relative to 100 parts by mass of a total amount of the thermoplastic resin and the inorganic substance powder.

Articles of wear having one or more textiles that include a low processing temperature polymeric composition and a high processing temperature polymeric composition, and methods of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The low processing temperature polymeric composition and the high processing temperature polymeric composition can be selectively incorporated into a textile to provide one or more structural properties and/or other advantageous properties to the article. The textile can be thermoformed to impart such structural and/or other advantageous properties to the article of wear. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.

A method of producing a component for an article of footwear or apparel or a sporting goods accessory. The method of producing a component includes forming at least a first layer by braiding a first braided tube. Braiding may be performed with an empty braiding center. The method further includes arranging the first layer on a form.

A protective textile sleeve and method of construction thereof is provided. The sleeve includes a seamless, tubular braided wall having a plurality of yarns braided with one another. A plurality of the yarns are high temperature, non-heat-shrinkable yarns and a plurality of the yarns are heat-shrinkable yarns, wherein the heat-shrinkable yarns are shrinkable at a temperature that does not cause the high temperature, non-heat-shrinkable yarns to shrink. The sleeve has a first length and first thickness upon being braided, and a second length that less than the first length and a second thickness that is greater than the first thickness upon being exposed to a single heat-treat process.

Disclosed is a stitch-bonded string comprising at least one stitched line extending in a machine direction and fibers emanating from the at least one stitched line. The at least one stitched line comprises a plurality of loops and said plurality of loops enclose substantially all of said fibers. The stitched line is gathered to reduce a dimension of the plurality of loops holding said fibers within the loops. The stitched line's weight is less than 20%, preferably less than 10%, and more preferably less than 5% of the total weight of the stitch-bonded string. The fibers have a basis weight ranging between 30 and 400 grams/meter.sup.2, preferably between 40 and 350 g/m.sup.2, preferably between 50 and 300 g/m.sup.2 or between 100 and 250 g/m.sup.2. Methods for making the string are also disclosed.

A moisture-retentive fabric medium includes a hydrophilic, thermoplastic polyester fiber as a blend of from 10-905% or 20-80% by total weight of textile fibers and 90-10% or 80-20% by total weight of hydrophilic textile fibers and less than 0.5% by weight of total fabric medium as microfibrillated cellulose fiber and less than 0.05% by weight superabsorbent polymers, the polyester having a melting point between 190-500 F when measured in accordance with ASTM D-3418.

A vehicle component that includes at least one fiber preform. The fiber preform includes a substrate, a fiber bundle having one or more types of reinforcing fibers, and a thread. The fiber bundle is arranged on the substrate and attached to the substrate by a plurality of stitches of the thread to form a first preform layer having a principal orientation. The vehicle component includes a core having a geometry with at least one edge and at least one the fiber preforms positioned along the at least one edge, the core and the fiber preform being overmolded in a resin. A process of making the vehicle component includes providing the core having the at least one edge, positioning the at least one fiber preform along the at least one edge, and overmolding the core and the at least one fiber preform in the resin.

A knitted component with a surface that includes first areas and second areas having different relative coefficient of frictions and that are formed in an alternating pattern. The first areas of the first surface are 40% to 80% of the total surface area for the first surface. The alternating pattern may be in the form of concentric shapes. The alternating pattern may have linear boundaries and curvilinear boundaries between first areas and second areas. The first areas can be formed from a first yarn having a core and a coating. The coating at least partially surrounds the core.