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Textiles in Sportswear, Sports Goods and Sports Equipment-A Discussion Journal of Mechanical Robotics e-ISSN: 2582-2187 Volume 4 Issue 3 Textiles in Sportswear, Sports Goods and Sports Equipment-A Discussion Nemailal Tarafder EX-Emeritus Professor, Department of Textile Engineering, Hooghly Engineering and Technology College, Hooghly, West Bengal, India Email: *[email protected] DOI: http://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.3524756 Abstract To perform high function and comfort are the essential requirements in modern sportswear. The performance requirement of the sports textiles to-day demand fabrics which have widely varying properties. Sports textiles are basically preferred with light weight and safety characteristics, which have substituted the other available materials. Smart textiles with high level functionalities have proven quality of performance in sports activities. To-day sports wears can sense high impact stresses on players’ joints and also heart rate, temperature and other physiological data during performance activities. Sport tech comprises of technical textiles used in sports and leisure, which are broadly of three categories. The sports textiles include specialist apparel for specific sports each with its own particularity in junctions. Knitted, woven and non-woven type fabrics are used in sports textiles. Researchers are involved to develop functional active fabrics to produce sports textiles. Keywords: Bio-mechanics, easy care, fibrous materials, market potential, sports footwear, technical textiles INTRODUCTION drying, vapour permeability, water The sports textiles sector includes apparel proofing to provide relaxation without for specific sports each with its own fatigue are essential for sportswear [1]. particular functions. Regular physical activities have positive impact on major Sportswear can be characterized by the health risk factors, such as high blood following important properties: optimum pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, and heat and moisture regulation, good air stress. Sportswear is not just used by permeability, wick ability, dimensional athletes while performing but is becoming stability even after wet, durability, easy a major part of everyday clothing during care, and light weight, soft and pleasant morning walk, jogging, yoga, stretching, touch, and produce cooling effect. Today, exercises and daily fitness activities sports demand high performance because of quality comfort of sports equipment and apparel. Special types of clothing. Fibres of fabrics selection with apparel having specific functions in choice is the most important factor particular sports are included in the sports because it influences performance, textiles category. Sometimes wide efficiency, ensuring protection and variations in properties are required for physical comfort. Active sportswear sports wears with reference to their requires super light weight, low fluid performance requirements. These are resistant, super high tenacity and stretch related to their constituent fibres and ability. Important characteristics features fabrics, for examples, barrier from rain, like thermal retention, UV resistance, snow, cold, heat and strength. These cooling capacity, sweat absorption and fast articles must fulfil the consumers’ 1 Page 1-10 © MAT Journals 2019. All Rights Reserved Journal of Mechanical Robotics e-ISSN: 2582-2187 Volume 4 Issue 3 requirements of drape, comfort, fitness and body joints and fabrics that can have the easy movement. ability to sense heart rate, temperature and many other physiological information. Technical textiles can provide products Apart from these, sports textiles have which are stronger than wood, breathe like versatile uses in shoes, equipment, flying, skin, water proofing performance like sailing, climbing, angling, winter and rubber and are eco-friendly as well as summer sports and in indoor sports wear. highly economical. The sports and leisure The areas of the applications are such as Industries have taken up the products of golf, tennis, mountaineering, skiing, technical textiles as challenge. Modern day cricket and parachute driving, etc. [4]. sports demand high performance equipment and apparel. Replacement of Textile materials are used not only as sports textiles by technical textiles has sportswear, but also as sports equipment been possible due to light weight and and sports foot wear. Examples of sports safety features of the products. These high equipment are like, sails, camping gears, performance and smart textiles are leisure bags, bikes and rackets. Sports foot increasingly adding values to the sports wear are mainly athletic shoes, football and leisure industry by combining boots, gym shoes, tennis shoes, and utilitarian functions with wearing comfort walking shoes. Lot of developments have that leads to achieving high level of taken place in sportswear due to performance [2]. participation of female players in games and sports. Sport tech and sports The use of high performance and smart equipment that enhance protection, textiles has proved their high level comfort and performance are classified functionality and success in their useful into three categories namely sportswear, performance. These high performance sports good and games equipment. materials are used for both in making Synthetic fibres offer the major sportswear as well as making sports requirements in to-days high technology equipment and components. Textiles play sports uniform: warmth, wind resistance, a major role in sports and without textiles moisture wicking, and lightness; comfort sports existence is very difficult. and feel like natural fibres and style and Development in technology has observed variety of colors [5]. the manufacturing of sportswear to ensure special features for better performance in Sportswear or active attire is clothing, their activities and also to provide comfort including footwear, worn for sports or to the players [3]. exercise. Typical garments include Shorts, Track suits, T-shirts, Polo shirts and Sports textiles are one of the branches of Trainers’ shirts. Specialized garments technical textiles. Today, new and include wet suits, and solopetts. It also sophisticated technologies are used in includes some under wear, such as the technical textiles to produce sportswear. In jockstraps, sportswear is often worn as recent years, designs of fabrics have casual fashion clothing. The athletic wear changed to suit the players as per their for some forms of exercise, like cycling, requirements. Examples of such should not create drag or be too bulky. It requirements are like, moisture of the body should be loose so that it does not resist can be taken away, patches from black movements. Some of the desirable jerseys so as to help players to dry their attributes of functional sport and leisure hands for better gripping, high stresses can are: optimum heat and moisture regulation, be sensed by the fabrics during impacts on good air and water vapour permeability, 2 Page 1-10 © MAT Journals 2019. All Rights Reserved Journal of Mechanical Robotics e-ISSN: 2582-2187 Volume 4 Issue 3 absence of dampness, rapid drying to sportswear and sports goods. It has up prevent catching cold, dimensionally graded the textile science and technology stable even wet, easy care, durable, etc. to a high level in comparison to other [6]. high-tech industrial sectors. The tremendous growth in the textile market The Indian sports goods industry due to development in technological manufactures a wide range of sports goods advancement for better products and encompassing as much as 318 different increasing demand by the customers have items. Textiles are used as raw materials in driven the market towards the growth in certain sports items though in very small the industrial sectors. Global market quantity. Inflatable balls like football, volume of sportswear varies depending on basket ball, volley ball, beach ball, rugby the type of end-use applications. The ball etc., are made of polyester/viscose or sportswear market occupies an important polyester/cotton fabric as an inner layer place in the total textile scene and this and nylon thread which is usually of 9 ply segment of textile market is growing at a while cotton thread of 5-6 ply are used for high rate, the producers of the sportswear stitching. Protective equipments for cricket and sports goods have been concentrating comprise leg-guards, batting gloves, their efforts on improving their strategic wicket keeping gloves, thigh pads, position, productivity, added value product helmets, caps, and hats, cricket kits bags, assortment, and niche positions in order to etc. Boxing equipment like boxing gloves, expand their market [9]. punch bags, etc is made of PU laminated/PVC coated fabrics, woven The people are paying more attention to polyester fabric, nylon coated with PVC or sports activity and that the market for both sides and canvas [7]. sportswear continuous to expand and those engaged in developing sportswear Textiles in sports 1st edition by Roshan solutions in this field must response to Shishoo, describes in details about current these increasingly demanding sportswear market, market review, key expectations. In twenty century, clothing is trends in sportswear design, material an important issue of active athletes and requirements for the design of for those who practice sports just for performance sportswear, functional fitness in their leisure time. The textile sportswear in Part 1. Innovative fibres and fabrics used in the manufacturing of fabrics in sports, high-performance and sportswear have special properties
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