What is Lamination fabrics?
Have you ever noticed this kind of clothes in store?
The hand feel of this clothes is very special, but you can not tell.
This kind of clothes, call lamination, which can make you dry during a raining day.
Laminated textiles consist of one or more layers of textile and component. The Textile Institute defines a laminated or combined fabric as; ‘a material composed of two or more layers, at least one of which is a textile fabric, bonded closely together by means of an added adhesive, or by the adhesive properties of one or more of the component layers’
This adhesive is required to bond the fabric and component layers together. Creating a strong bond, which will not deteriorate through conditions experienced in use such as movement and laundering, is not the biggest challenged faced. Adhesives are often associated with making the fabric too rigid and thus affecting the handle, which is often a negative characteristic, particularly for applications in performance clothing where comfort is a requirement. Environmental consideration has led towards more interest in hot melt adhesives, rather than solvent based adhesive, or the use of flame adhesion.
Laminated fabrics are widely used in high performance apparel where fabrics are required to be waterproof yet breathable. In this case a laminate membrane Laminates often consist of a non-textile membrane sandwiched between 2 textiles, for example in the case of the micropourous membrane Gore Tex.
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