Fancy Yarns: Alternatives to Comfort-Enhanced Fabrics

Fancy yarns, which contain various effects in terms of color and/or structure, attract the attention of textile and fashion designers with their aesthetic appearance. Designers use these surface effects, created by some planned irregularities in the yarn, as a design element. Moreover, the use of fancy yarn also enables the economical production of original designs. With the developments in recent years, fancy yarn types have become very diverse, and it is possible to talk about the limitless effects that can be obtained by using both the type and parameter of fancy yarns as variables. In addition to the design differences fancy yarns create in the appearance of the fabric, they also change the surface characteristics of the fabric, sensory and thermophysiological comfort properties. Research has been carried out to examine the effects of raw materials used in yarn production, fancy yarn production parameters, and fabric production parameters on the dimensional, physical, appearance, and comfort properties of the fabric. In this section, fancy yarn structures are defined and classified, and studies on the comfort properties of fabrics produced using fancy yarn are mentioned. © 2024 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.