1978 Volume 19 Issue 6 Pages 225-230
A study of the mechanism of pilling has been made by a quantitative determination of pills formed on knitted fabrics during garment wear.
Four women students of about 20 years of age wore the same kind of cardigans for 160 hours. The estimation of pilling was made on six different parts of the cardigans by counting the number of pills and of fibers contained in each pill, and by determining the length of the fibers and the breaking condition of fibers.
The results obtained are as follows
1) The structures of pills are remarkably different depending on the parts of the cardigans upon which different forces act to produce pills.
2) The structure of pills formed on the fabrics during wear is different from that produced by the Random Tumble Pilling Tester.
