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Fabrics & Materials · Jun 2024 · 8 min read
The Weaving Process of Knitted Underwear Fabrics
Underwear fabric is knitted rather than woven, and three routes cover it: circular knitting for tubular fabric, flat knitting for shaped or whole-garment panels, and warp knitting for stable linings. Gauge sets the relationship between yarn count and weight, written GG for circular and flat machines but E for warp machines. Fabric weight, measured to ISO 3801, means little without the gauge and the yarn count beside it.
Company & Industry Insights · May 2024 · 6 min readWhat is the Core Competitiveness of Underwear Products?
Underwear competitiveness sits in five places: fabric and seam quality, design that fits a real body and a real market, innovation that shows up in cost or comfort, brand pull that earns the reorder, and service measured in delivery reliability. In a private-label programme the first and the last carry most of the weight, because the brand on the label is yours. Unitex Underwear sources and follows up on both.
Color Fastness Affecting Underwear Quality
Color fastness is how much a dyed fabric fades or bleeds during washing, rubbing, perspiration and light exposure, and it belongs in the fabric specification rather than in after-sales complaints. For next-to-skin underwear the usual set is washing, rubbing, perspiration and light fastness, with washing normally specified at level 4. Unitex Underwear supplies programmes built to those levels.
Fabrics & Materials · Nov 2023 · 8 min read
Textile Underwear Fabric Printing and Dyeing Process
Cotton knitwear runs a long route before it becomes underwear: singeing burns off surface fluff, desizing removes the sizing, scouring and bleaching strip natural impurities and pigment, and mercerising adds lustre and dimensional stability. Printing follows, either rotary screen for volume or flat screen for finer detail, then steaming, soaping, pre-shrinking and calendering. Unitex Underwear treats each of those steps as a place where shade and shrinkage are decided, not corrected later.
What are the Quality Inspection Standards for Underwear?
Underwear quality control has eight checkpoints: fabric, elastic, measurements, symmetry, workmanship, ironing, accessories and packing. Random sampling pulls five pieces per colour and size, or a few from each carton. Seams must be flat and firm, leg openings symmetrical, threads trimmed, and measurements inside the agreed tolerance. Unitex Underwear keeps the same eight checks from cutting through to final carton.
8 Factors Affecting the Insufficient Weight of Textile Knitted Underwear Fabrics
Gram weight is the number that survives a claim dispute, so it has to be measured, not assumed. Knitted fabric loses weight through drying, singeing, mercerising and repeated dyeing, and a yarn that arrives finer than ordered does the same. Unitex Underwear locks the GSM into the specification, weighs the greige and the finished roll, and ships only after the tolerance is met.
Fabrics & Materials · Sep 2023 · 7 min readHow to Align Plaid and Stripes When Making Plaids and Stripes Underwear ？
Matching stripes starts at the fabric: any weft skew in the greige roll has to be corrected before cutting. From there the marker carries alignment marks, layers are pinned along the grid, and a margin is left on each piece so sewing can still line front, back and side panels up. It costs fabric and labour. Unitex Underwear prices the pattern-matching requirement into the quote rather than treating it as free.
What Kind of Fabric Is Bamboo Fiber?
Bamboo charcoal fibre is chosen for the way it behaves against skin: it takes moisture up and lets it go, stays warm in winter and cool in summer, and needs no chemical finish to do it. Each filament carries a honeycomb microporous structure running from surface to core, and that is where the breathability comes from. Unitex Underwear tests bamboo against cotton and modal when a brief asks for a natural-feel knit.
Four Key Points to Determine the Quality of Underwear
Underwear quality is settled by four variables, and price only reflects them. Fabric comes first: fibre content and yarn decide moisture handling and how the piece wears. Then inner lining, where breathable cotton separates a durable garment from one that cracks after a few washes. Then workmanship, measured in stitch density and seam neatness. Then function, from support to shape retention. Unitex Underwear sources against those four, not against a price point.
Manufacturing & Quality Control · Oct 2022 · 5 min read
Common Problems in Lean Production Implementation
Lean implementation fails in underwear programmes for a small set of recurring reasons: the line is measured on output rather than on first-pass yield, batch sizes are set by the machine rather than by demand, and the corrective action loop is not tracked. Each of those is a management decision rather than an equipment one.
Manufacturing & Quality Control · Sep 2022 · 5 min read
How to Make Underwear Programmes More Efficient in a Recession
Recession planning usually comes down to four levers: how materials are bought, how much time product spends on machines, how efficient the team is, and how high the pass rate is. Unitex Underwear works on all four — consolidating colours to reach mill minimums, cutting changeover time, and lifting first-pass yield so fewer pieces are reworked. Inspection is the cheapest saving of them all.
Unitex Underwear Manufactures – Lean Production and Quality Management
Lean production changes three things in an underwear programme: inventory level, rework rate and lead time. The change shows up as fewer pieces sitting in work-in-progress and a lower repeat of the same defect, rather than as a higher output figure — which is why the two are easy to confuse when a supplier reports performance.