Development of seamless woven garments with desired shapes and sizes

Abstract

This paper demonstrates how to design seamless woven garments with desired shapes and sizes using data obtained from 83 pre-produced tubular woven fabrics with different construction parameters that influence finished width shrinkage. The finished fabric shrinkage data generated from these fabrics were used to create garments with required shape using different fabrics with different shrinkage along a garment length. Further the data could be used to determine the on-loom and finished width of other tubular woven fabrics to produce other range of garments with desired shapes and sizes. The 83 tubular woven fabrics were ranked in terms of finished fabric width (or shrinkage) and a fabric rank-finished width relationship was established. Six garments with desired shapes and sizes (Small, Medium, Large, and X Large) were designed to demonstrate the usefulness of the relationship to garment designers.