Plated fabric explained

Plated fabrics are fabrics that have different colors or types of face and back. The fabrics are formed by using different kinds of yarn types or colors to both be invisible on the other side. Different properties of several textile fibers are exploited to obtain various surface interests and patterns. One of the aspects is the thermophysiological and moisture comfort of clothing.

Manufacture and structure

Plated fabrics are the combination of two separate yarns of different properties. The knitted plated fabrics are produced by an arrangement of needles that do not bring the back yarn to the face (also called right side of the fabric) or the face yarn to the back.^{[1] [2]}

Particular knitting machines allow the selective knitting of separate yarns on the face and back to form plated fabrics.^[3]

Function and use

Layers made of fibers with contrasting characteristics, appropriately selected, can help in producing improved clothing functionality.^[4] Different fibers have different properties. Natural fibers are often hygroscopic, and synthetics are more commonly hydrophobic. The contrast of these properties can be used to obtain different functionality. For example, fabrics with cotton on the outside and polyester or polypropylene inside are suitable for moisture wicking.^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

Advantages

Plated fabric can improve clothing comfort through thermophysiological and moisture comfort by reducing the sensation of dampness.^{[9] [10] [11]}

See also

• Technical textile

Notes and References

1. Book: Denton. Michael James. Textile Terms and Definitions. Daniels. Paul N.. 2002. Textile Institute. 978-1-870372-44-2. 255. en.
2. Book: Chamberlain. John. Knitted Fabrics. Quilter. James Henry. 1919. Sir I. Pitman & sons, Limited. 40. en.
3. Book: The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade Marks . 1944 . Patent Office . en. 347. knit fabric, a plurality of contrasting plating yarns, means to selectively interknit with the body yarn the individual plating ... means to manipulate the body and plating yarns to produce reverse plated areas throughout the fabric in the different.
4. Book: Administration, United States Agriculture Research. Report of the Administrator of Agricultural Research .... 1948. United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Administration.. 308. en.
5. Book: Paul, Roshan . High Performance Technical Textiles . 2019-02-26 . John Wiley & Sons . 978-1-119-32503-1 . 25 .
6. Web site: Plated Structure - an overview ScienceDirect Topics . 2021-05-25 . www.sciencedirect.com .
7. Book: Wei, Q. . Surface Modification of Textiles . 2009-08-26 . Elsevier . 978-1-84569-668-9 . 115, 116 .
8. Book: Rutnagur, Sorabji M. . The Indian Textile Journal . 1985 . Business Press . 75 .
9. Karthik . T . Senthilkumar . P . Murugan . R . 2018-01-01 . Analysis of comfort and moisture management properties of polyester/milkweed blended plated knitted fabrics for active wear applications . Journal of Industrial Textiles . 47 . 5 . 897–920 . 10.1177/1528083716676814 . 137859227 . 1528-0837 .
10. Manshahia . M. . Das . A. . 2014-05-04 . Thermophysiological comfort characteristics of plated knitted fabrics . The Journal of the Textile Institute . 105 . 5 . 509–519 . 10.1080/00405000.2013.826419 . 137663470 . 0040-5000 .
11. Book: Modern Textiles Magazine . 1956 . Rayon Publishing Corporation . 102 .