Fabric Faults Produced During Weaving, Knitting and Nonwoven Production

Last Updated on 30/06/2021

List of Defects in Weaving, Knitting and Nonwoven Fabric Production

Shareful Islam Palash
Lecturer, Institute of Textile Engineering & Information Technology
Email: palash313@gmail.com

What is Defects?
The defects are the undesired effects of a product from the point of view of the customer. If a customer likes a feature in a product, it is termed as a salient feature or effect and if a customer dislikes it, it becomes a defect. Hence, while identifying a defect we need to see it from the perspective of a customer. In this article I will give list of defects produce during fabric production in weaving, knitting and nonwoven process.

Fabric Faults / Defects in Weaving:

1. Warp way defect.
2. Weft way defect.
3. Fabric faults common to both warp and weft.

1. Warp way defect of fabric:

• Warp stitching.
• Broken warp end.
• Broken pick.
• Long float.
• Wrong warp.
• Missing warp.
• Double warp
• Reed mark.
• Knot in the warp.
• Tight warp.
• Slack warp.
• Warp steak.
• Selvedge effect;
• Curly/wavy effect.
• Corded selvedge.
• Weft breaks or cuts at the selvedge.
• Loops in the selvedge.
• Temple marks.

2. Weft way defect of fabric:

• Miss pick or broken pick.
• Thick and thin place.
• Broken pattern.
• Shuttle mark.
• Weft carls.
• Tight picks.
• Back lashing or lashing in.
• Starting mark.
• Cracks.
• Tear drops.
• Goat.
• Black picks.
• Finger mark.
• Bow effect.
• Knot in the weft.
• Catch knot.

3. Fabric defects common to both warp and weft:

• Cloudy or uneven cloth.
• Oil or grease sport.
• Holes in the cloth.
• Wavy cloth.
• Dirty cloth.
• Rusty fabric.
• Hairy or fussy fabric.
• Rough surface cloth.
• Dobby mistake.
• Loose end.
• Loose pick.
• Let-off bar.

Fabric Faults / Defects in Knitting:

• Broken ends or holes.
• Drop stitches.
• Ch fall out.
• Snagging.
• Tuck or double stitches.
• Bunching up.
• Vertical stripes.
• Horizontal stripes.
• Color fly.
• Distorted stitches.

Fabric Faults / Defects in Nonwoven Fabric Production:

• Weight variation.
• Needle break.
• Poor opening.
• Needle punch not up to the level.
• Weak adhesive.
• Defective spraying.
• Defective stitching.
• Defective felting.
• Defective bonding.

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Mazharul Islam Kiron

Founder & Editor of Textile Learner. He is a Textile Consultant, Blogger & Entrepreneur. Mr. Kiron is working as a textile consultant in several local and international companies. He is also a contributor of Wikipedia.

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