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Textile Materials Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Textile Materials (subject code 3132906) as prescribed for Textile Tech. · Semester 3 divides the course into 6 units, covering 31 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3132906)Unit 1 Introduction to textile fibre
- Definitions: textile fibres
- fabric.Specification of fibers: Count
- Tex etc. Fibre forming properties (crystalline and amorphous region)
- Molecular weight
- degree of polymerization
- Addition and Condensation polymerization.Essential and Desirable properties of fibres
- Broad classification of textile fibres Cross sectional shape and density of different fibres
Unit 2 Production of cotton
- Methods of harvesting and effects
- Types of cotton
- Morphological structure of cotton
- Detailed chemical and physical structure of cotton
- Properties of cotton
- brief idea about organic cotton
Unit 3 Protein fibres
- Introduction to wool fibres
- Morphological structure of wool
- Detailed chemical
- physical structure of wool
- Definition of worsted wool
- Properties and uses of wool
- Introduction to silk
- sericulture of silk
- Silk reeling process
- throwing process and degumming of silk
- Different types of silk
- physical structure of silk
Unit 6 Introduction to manmade fibres, Difference between natural and manmade fibres, Advantages
- and disadvantages of natural and manmade fibres
- General principles of manufacturing manmade fibres by melt spinning
- dry spinning and wet spinning.Regenerated fibers.Viscose: raw material
- manufacturing and spinning of viscose
- properties and application
- Introduction to other types of 9 Subject Code: 3132906 w.e.f