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Abrasion Resistance Tester
Objective:
To determine the abrasion resistance of the sample fabric.
Theory:
A number of important points require consideration before abrasion resistance tests are carried out. The choice of the method may be governed by the type of apparatus available, the precision demanded and so forth. Some of the more important points are condition of the specimen, choice of testing instrument, choice of abrasive motion, direction of abrasion, choice of abradant, backing the specimen, cleanliness of the specimen and instrument, tension on the specimen, pressure between abradant and specimen, end-point of the test etc. Now there are various abrasion resistance testing instruments available for example, the WIRA abrasion tester, the LIRA abrasion tester, the Taber abraser, the Shiefer machine, the Wyzenbeek abrasion tester, the Stoll universal wear tester, the LINRA wear tester, the BFT abrasion tester etc. The abrasion tester we used here is made by Qinsun Instrument. In this instrument abrasion surfaces wrapping by sand paper are used to abrade the fabric samples. A counter is used to count the no. of abrasion. This is an electrical tester.
Abrasion Tester is used to determine the abrasion resistance of fabrics when rubbed against a standard abradant or a wire mesh screen with a backward and forward motion over a curved surface. Particularly it’s suitable for? automotive and furniture industry fabric manufacturers working to US standards.
Procedure:
At first cut the fabric into 4 pieces according to the measurement of the instrument.
Weigh these 4 pieces of fabric samples.
Now place these samples in the instrument under a certain load as supplied in the instrument.
Now start the machine and observe the counter of abrasion no.
After an abrasion of 200 bring out the first sample and weigh it.
After an abrasion of 300 bring out the second sample and weigh it.
Similarly after abrasion of 400 and 500 bring out the third and fourth sample and take their weight.
Now put the weights before and after abrasions in a table and find out their wear index.
Crocheted and felted wool in hyperbolic form. Fringed with champagne eyelash fiber. Edged with baroque freshwater pearls. Needle felted focal point with glass beads.
The city of Manchester in Meriwether County was founded in 1907 when the Atlanta, Birmingham, and Atlantic Railroad decided to extend their rail lines to form a junction of three lines. Fuller E. Callaway, a textile manufacturer from LaGrange, brought cotton production to the small community when he erected the Manchester Cotton Mills, Inc. in 1908. Following the mills establishment, the new city of Manchester was then incorporated on August 16, 1909, to be named after the manufacturing town in England.
With the railroad and the cotton mill, the town of Manchester quickly grew, drawing in workers from the surrounding countryside. Because of the influx of workers, the town quickly encountered a housing crisis. Callaway helped create the Manchester Development Company to provide mill housing and other city development infrastructure. Businesses, schools, churches, and recreational centers were created, making Manchester one of the largest cities in Meriwether County. Many of the mill houses can still in use today. Overall, the Manchester Cotton Mill Village provided housing, recreation, and a sense of community for the mill workers and their families. Early textile manufacturers encouraged mill village life as a means to entice farmworkers to move off farms and live closer to the factories where they would work.
The Manchester mill was located northwest of Main Street across the railroad tracks. The Manchester Cotton Mills, Inc. was owned and operated by the Callaway family with the executive offices located in LaGrange, Georgia. Originally steam-powered, the mill employed around 500 workers to work their impressive 20,800 spindles, 472 looms, and 90 carding machines. The mill specialized in producing cotton duck, sateens, twills, and corduroys until the 1930s. The Callaway family’s careful manufacturing practices and planning in the 1920s allowed their various mills operations, of which the Manchester Cotton Mills was a part, to survive through the Great Depression.
In 1932, the Manchester Cotton Mills Inc. was merged with the rest of the Callaway family holdings to create the Callaway Mills Company. At the same time, the Callaways upgraded many of their factories, and the newly renamed Manchester Plant was converted from steam power to electric by 1935. Products made by Manchester Plant during this time increased to include chafer fabrics, drills, dobby weaves, and novelty fabrics in worsted blends. The mill continued operations through the Great Depression and through both World War I and World War II. Starting in the 1950s, the mill started producing drapery & upholstery fabrics, laundry textiles, drills, sheeting, and twills. At its height, the facility featured 30,480 spindles, 600 looms, and 223 carding machines.
In the 1968, Deering Milliken, a leading textile innovator of new Stabilon laid scrim and Millimatic weft insertion warp knitting technologies based out of South Carolina, bought the plant. Some of Milliken’s products were used in duct tape, roofing membranes, and construction panel manufacturing. Production at Manchester Plant continued until it closed its doors in 2002. The Mill burned down in 2013 in an arson case but visitors can still see the twin smokestacks. Part of the building did survive and has been renovated into an art gallery and studio.
Left to right:
3 unknown; Tom Berry; unknown; Walter Townend; Phyllis Bentley; unknown.
Confederation of Textile Societies meeting, held at Halifax, West Yorkshire, 26 May 1962. Sadly no record available of names against photos. DW Holdsworth 2008.
I have designed and made this dress while I was doing GCSE where I was introduced to pattern cutting and how to sew dresses. The photographs show the development towards my final piece and research pages on textiles.
Some material I'm using for the textile pieces I'm making for the Contemporary Textile Group's mail exchange. The piece of paper that's in the pic is 5 x 7", so I can check regularly whether my textile postcards will be the right size.
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Judith Lunnemann
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31/01/2013
Textile experimentation to inform design of the body form. I used, an embellisher, pleated tissue, and heated a range of materials using an iron and heat gun.
An employee works at a textile plant in Liaocheng, Shandong province in this picture taken March 26, 2008. China's textile and garment exports in February dropped 32.9 percent from the previous month, largely due to weakening U.S. and European demand and the severe winter storms, customs authorities said, Xinhua News Agency reported. Picture taken March 26, 2008. REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA). CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA.
I took the photo w/o a flash; the textile's colors were bright & vibrant - not unlike the white white in the next photo (with light end levels cranked!).
Read more about this installation by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec.
www.londondesignfestival.com/content/2011-ronan-erwan-bou...
Photo © Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec