An Investigation on Water Transmission Through Two - layer Knitted Fabrics

The aim of this paper is to investigate water transmissionproperties of two-layer weft knitted fabrics and somerelated factors.The author prepared some experimentalfabrics with specific yarns and stitch densities,and mea-sured water vapor permeating rate through the fabricsand liquid water transferability from inner to outerlayer.Results show that the permeating rate is closelyrelated to porosity within fabric while the transferabilitydepends mainly upon the water absorbabilities of fiberson two layers and the degree or their difference.