Unit 1 Introduction to textile fibre Polymer 8 14

• Program Name: Bachelor of Engineering Level: UG Branch: Textile Technology Subject Code : BE03029011 Subject Name : Textile Fibre - I ● Definitions: Polymer
• Degree of polymerization
• Molecular weight ● Arrangement of molecules
• molecular orientation of fibres ● Types of Polymerization: Addition and Condensation polymerization. ● Types of Polymers ● Requirement of fibre-forming polymers ● Chemical composition and structure of textile fibres

Unit 2 Introduction to textile fibre

7 lecture hours

• ● Definitions: textile fibres
• fabric. ● Specification of fibers: Count
• Tex etc. ● Essential and Desirable properties of fibres. ● Broad classification of textile fibres

Unit 3 Production of cotton

6 lecture hours

• ● Methods of harvesting and effects of cotton. ● Organic cotton
• BT cotton
• Color cotton ● Types of cotton. ● Morphological structure of cotton. ● Detailed chemical and physical structure of cotton. ● Properties of cotton. ● Application of cotton

Unit 4 Protein fibres (wool,silk)

6 lecture hours

• ● Introduction to wool fibres ● Morphological structure of wool ● Detailed chemical
• physical structure of wool. ● Definition of worsted wool. ● Properties and uses of wool
• Program Name: Bachelor of Engineering Level: UG Branch: Textile Technology Subject Code : BE03029011 Subject Name : Textile Fibre - I ● Introduction to silk
• sericulture of silk ● Silk reeling process
• throwing process and degumming of silk. ● Different types of silk. ● Detailed chemical
• physical structure of silk

Unit 5 Brief idea about cultivation, physical and chemical properties and

• application of bast fibres: Jute

Unit 6 Sources and applications of other minor natural fibres. Coir,

4 lecture hours

• Leaf fibres: abaca
• Soyabean fibre
• Milk protein fibre
• Mineral fibres: Asbestos and other natural fibres
• Bicomponent fibres

Unit 8 ● Cross sectional shape, longitudinal shape and density of

4 lecture hours

• different fibres. ● Burning and chemical properties of fibres ● Breaking test
• feeling test of fibres ● Moisture properties of textile fibres

Unit 9 Instruments used to measure properties of fibres like X ray diffraction,

4 lecture hours

• birefringence, NMR, FTIR
• Electron microscopy
• Density Gradient Technique