Textile Product Serviceability covers the fundamental concepts of textile and apparel testing, illustrating the advantage and limitations of these tests.

Textile Product Serviceability discusses the central role of performance specifications in commercial testing efforts and considers the variables that must be controlled to obtain reliable and useful results. Current industry events, ongoing problems, and controversies are emphasized as well.

Textile Product Serviceability focuses on quality control and developmental work that complies with ASTM performance specifications for textile fabrics, as well as AATCC and ASTM testing methods.

Contents

1. Principles
   1. Quality: What Is It and Who Wants It?
   2. Standard Specifications
   3. Getting Reliable Test Results
   4. Sampling and Statistics
   5. Overview of Textile Testing

2. Fabric Test Methods
   6. Characterizing a Fabric
   7. Measures of Fabric Strength and Elongation
   8. Abrasion and Wear
   9. Effects of Refurbishing on Textiles and End Products
   10. Colorfastness Tests
   11. Colorfastness Tests for End Use Exposure Conditions
   12. Flammability
   13. Absorbency and Repellency
   14. Comfort, Hand, and Drape

3. Appendices
   1. Testing Equipment
   2. Fabric Selection
   3. Specimen Preparation

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