Recent research and developments on yarn hairiness

Textile Research Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 211-224

  Haleem, Noman ^a,b   Wang, Xungai ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL TEXTILE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c WUHAN TEXTILE UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

hairiness measurement; hairiness modeling; yarn hairiness; yarn spinning

Indexed keywords

WEAVING; WOOL; YARN;

HAIRINESS MEASUREMENTS; POST SPINNINGS; QUALITY PARAMETERS; RECENT RESEARCHES; YARN HAIRINESS; YARN SPINNING;

SPINNING (FIBERS);

EID: 84912133942     PISSN: 00405175     EISSN: 17467748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0040517514538692     Document Type: Article

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