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AssigneeLenzing Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsSusanne Carls, Martin Neunteufel, Dieter Eichinger, Christoph Schrempf, Mohammad Abu-Rous
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Silk woven fabric is known and renowned for its touch. The drawback of silk, however, is its price, its poor washability, and low resistance against certain chemical treatments. It is therefore the object of the invention to provide a silk-like woven fabric which overcomes these problems. According to the invention, this problem is solved by providing a silk-like woven fabric (2) made from weft yarns (4) and warp yarns (6), wherein at least one of the weft yarns (4) and the warp yarns (6) contains or consists of lyocell filaments (8). Especially twisted lyocell filament yarns are used, the resulting material has a touch comparable to silk and physical properties that are equal to or even surpass those of silk. Moreover, the lyocell filament yarns (4, 6) may have a higher twist than silk yarns, other cellulose yarns, or synthetic yarns.
A woven fabric made from weft yarn and warp yarn, wherein at least one of the weft yarn and the warp yarn comprises at least one lyocell filament yarn having more than 1,500 twists per meter (TPM) and less than 3,500 TPM and a linear mass density of no more than 150 dtex, wherein the sum of the absolute values in percent of shrinkage in warp direction and of the shrinkage in weft direction of the fabric determined according to DIN EN ISO 5077 after a first washing according to DIN EN ISO 6330 is no more than 11% in a conditioned state 65/20.
A method of making a garment, the method comprising producing at least one lyocell filament yarn in a woven fabric having more than 1,500 twists per meter (TPM) and less than 3,500 TPM and a linear mass density of no more than 150 dtex, wherein the sum of the absolute values in percent of shrinkage in warp direction and of the shrinkage in weft direction of the fabric determined according to DIN EN ISO 5077 after a first washing according to DIN EN ISO 6330 is no more than 11% in the conditioned state 65/20.
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