COTTON AND WOOL BLENDS- A REVIEW

Cotton/wool blended fabrics are growing in popularity, due to increased consumer demand for styling, comfort and for natural fibers. There is a resurgence of interest in blending these two natural fibers throughout the developed world, because they are perfect complements of each other. When blending of cotton and wool takes place, the strengths of one fiber tempers the weaknesses of the other. The popularity of these blends is due to their light weight, good strength, drapability, easy washability together with low cost. Blended worsted yarns containing approximately equal proportions of wool and cotton have been long established in knit wear, dress wear, under wear, children’s clothing, light weight shirting’s, pajamas clothes and blankets. As morphology, physical and chemical structure of both these fibers differs, lots of work has been done by researchers on spinning, finishing and dyeing of this blend. Present paper reviews aforementioned aspects related to cots wool blend.