The Comparison of the Thermal Behaviour of Leisure and Sports Clothing Using Conventional and New Textile Materials

Abstract

This work reports on research being carried out in the area of functional knitted fabrics with a special structure incorporating hydrophobic fibres near to the skin and suction channels of hydrophilic fibres to suck moisture from the skin on the hydrophilic layer away from the skin; in this way, comfort is maximised in active wear as the fabric does not feel wet near to the skin.

Thermal Comfort of Bedsheets Under Real Conditions of Use

“…In recent decades, comfort of leasure, sport, and protective clothing became an important topic of many scientific studies (Geraldes 2007;Zimniewska et al 2002;Zimniewska and Krucińska 2010). However, just few of the published papers targeted the comfort of bed clothing and bedsheets, despite the fact, that healthy humans have to stay in the bed for at least 4 to 6 h during the 24 h daily cycle.…”