Department of Textile Science and Technology, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
Lawal, A.S., Department of Textile Science and Technology, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
This paper describes the possibility of spinning different blends of flax/cotton fibres using rotor spinning machine. Four different blends of flax/cotton (10/90, 30/70, 50/50 and 70/30) were considered and all these blends were spun under the same rotor speed (50,000 rpm) and twist level (765 turns/m). Only 10/90, 30/70 and 50/50 flax/cotton blends were spinnable under this conditions. These blends gave a count of 39 tex yarn with differences in values of their tensile properties such as tenacity of 12.62g/tex, 10.18g/tex and 4.34g/tex, while elongation at break of 8.50%, 6.78% and 3.20% for each of the blends respectively. The 70/30 flax/cotton blend was found unspinnable. The higher flax content in the blend created difficulty in spinning the blend. This is due to the stiffness and low pliability of the flax component.
