A Literature Review of Manufacturing Eco-Friendly Comfort Textiles and Future Agenda

Comfort is now a hot topic in textile and clothing field. While textile materials are improving against our comfort feeling in various aspects, a lot of technologies were introduced for manufacturing comfort textile. The technologies may produce negative effect to the environment. Also, “eco-friendly” always draws much attention by the public and many research fields. Therefore, in this study, we conducted a literature review from 2005 to 2015 for analysing the current trends in developing eco-friendly comfort textile and proposed future agenda. The results of this paper identified 4 research questions and directions: (i) How to increase and ensure wash durability (ii) Recycling of used comfort materials (iii) Subjective test and Commercialize of materials and (iv) Marketing, how to promote eco-friendly and comfort products