울/텐셀 혼방직물의 표면가공처리에 따른 감성에 대한 연구

Effect of Surface Finishing on Tactile Properties in Wool/Tencel Blended Fabrics

The trend of fashion, which was affected by historical event and culture, plays an important role in determining textile fabrication. The fabrication has been made not only by introducing the newly developed fiber but also by modifying the existing textile materials to impart sensibility to them. In this research, focusing on the latter case, we carried out the fabrication of women clothes specially for fall and winter. A survey on fashion trend through 1990s was made to forecast the fashion trend of 2000 years. Based on the forecasted trend, the fabrication in 2000 was expected to mostly use angora wool that possesses high luster, highly soft touch and highly wet look. However, angora wool is very expensive and thus, it is needed to introduce other fibers the properties of which are almost similar to those of angora. In this research, tencel fiber was introduced to substitute for angora wool. Tencel fabrics prepared were finished chemically with enzyme treatment and phsically with surface raising in a bid to impart to them sensitivity peculiar to angora. In order to characterize the imparted sensitivity, physical properties measured are compressibility, bending, tensile strain, surface properties, and etc. Result showed that the enzyme treated tencel fabric was much closer to the angora fabric than the enzyme untreated tencel fabric.