Crease Resistance and Recovery

Testing
 Crease
A break or line in a fabric generally caused by a
sharp fold.

Crease Recovery
The property of a fabric that enables it to recover
from folding deformations

Crease Retention
The ability of a fabric to maintain an inserted
crease.
 Crease Resistance  Crease Resistant
The property of a A term used to
fabric that enables it describe a fabric
to resist the formation treated chemically to
of wrinkles when improve its resistance
subjected to a folding to and recovery from
deformation. wrinkling.
 Factors affecting wrinkling
Fiber factors
Bending Forces in a Thin Rod

Bending forces in a Thick Rod

 Yarn factors
Fabrics made from high twist yarns wrinkle
worse than those made from low twist yarns.
 Fabric factors
Tightly woven fabrics wrinkle worse than loosely
constructed fabrics.
 Method of Measuring Crease Recovery
a. The Tootal crease recovery tester.
b. The Shirley crease recovery tester.
c. The LINRA sunray crease
evaluator.
 Shirley Crease Recovery Tester
 Construction
The instrument consists of a circular dial which
carries the clap for holding the specimen.
Directly under the center of the dial is a knife
edge and an index line for measuring the
recovery angle.
The scale of the instrument is engraved on the
dial.
 Shirley Crease Recovery Tester
Twenty rectangular specimens are tested, each
measuring 40mm X 15 mm.
Half of the specimens cut parallel to the warp and
half parallel to the weft.
In the test the specimens are folded in two, the
ends being held by tweezers. Half the specimens
are folded face to face and half of them back to
back.
The specimens are then placed under a 10N load
for 5min.
The crease recovery angle is measured, by
reading the scale when the free limb is vertical, 5
min after the removal of the load.