DEVELOPMENT OF KARATE GI FABRIC WITH ENHANCED PERFORMANCE

Textile Technology

Karate Gi is a uniform used for karate practice and competition. To promote commonality among the students and for the fosters a sense of pride so they wear karate uniform. The problem in Karate Gi is about the improper permeability in the garment with proper plain weave structure and the user face difficulty in wearing the uniform for the longer duration of time this affects the wearer by getting tired in a few hours due to high GSM of garment. This study is to solve the wearer difficulties by designing the garment with proper permeable construction and by choosing the right fabric with comfortable blending proportion. For choosing the fibre blend we have collected information with other branded karate uniform fabric usage, and we have compared the fibre and GSM of the fabric. Further we have identified that the fabric is been manufactured only by the cotton polyester, 100% cotton, cotton canvas. So that we have planned to choose new blending ratios to develop and design with new product. Then we select the cotton viscose (40: 60) natural fibre, cotton spandex (40 :60) synthetic fibre and purchased the blended yarn with 10s count to increase the thickness of fabric and weave the fabric with less GSM. And then fabric has been tested with comfort properties and compare with polyester cotton (40:60). By the result of comfort properties, we can identify the right fabric to use. For further development we have the developed pattern and construct the garment with proper design formulation and test them with wearer and find out the comfort properties

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