Abstract

The beautiful appearance and good properties make pure silk fabric one of the most popular fabrics. PLA (poly lactic acid) is a degradable Eco-friendlymaterial which is made from corn or other crops, it also can be used in the textile engineering, and the PLA filament has good mechanical properties, such as high break elongation rate and breaking strength. It is a new task to combine these two types of textile materialsfor better use. This issue selected silk and PLA filament as warp andweft, 8kinds of PLA/silkmixed fabrics were designed and weaved. In order to compare andanalyze those fabrics, tests focusing on fabric properties, such as gas permeability,moisture-penetrability, wrinkle recovery ability and anti-pilling resistance, were carried out, through the comparison, it was found thatPLA/silk mixed fabrics had excellent wear-ability, theirmoisture-penetrability were good, they did well in anti-pilling resistance although theairpermeability and wrinkle recovery ability wereno better than pure silk fabric.

Keywords

Silk, Poly lactic acid, Wear-ability, anti-piling resistance, chemical fibers, plain satin silk, thermo stability, permeability, wet-hot resistance, PLA filaments, mechanical properties, Air permeability, Moisture-penetrability, Wrinkle recovery ability, transmission rate, external force, thermal shrinkage rate.