Sewing Machines and Processes presents modern engineering fundamentals of sewing processes and machines for the complete spectrum of sewing stitches. It explores various needle types, properties of sewing threads, material transport, and advances in sewing techniques and technologies.
Sewing Machines and Processes presents modern engineering fundamentals of sewing processes and machines for the complete spectrum of sewing stitches. It explores various needle types, properties of sewing threads, material transport, and advances in sewing techniques and technologies.
Beginning with an overview of the history of sewing, the book introduces commonly used stitch types such as lock stitch, chain stitch, overlock-, cover stitches and their formation processes. It provides a comprehensive understanding of the various factors involved in optimizing machine performance and improving stitch quality, from proper needle and thread selection to the mechanical interactions and forces involved in sewing machine operation. Additional focus is given to embroidery machines, spacer stitching technology, automated sewing stations, and modern equipment for quality control during the sewing process. Readers will also learn how to calculate thread consumption for different stitch classes.
The book will interest both researchers and industry professionals working in the apparel industry, textile production/manufacturing, and design assembly processes. It will also benefit graduate students taking courses in Apparel Technology, Sewing Technology, Sewing Processes, and Joining Technology of Textiles.
Preface.................................................................
.....................................................vii
Editor.......................................................................
..................................................ix
Contributors.................................................................
...............................................x
Chapter 1 History of
Sewing.......................................................................
...........1
Hassan Saeed
Chapter 2 Sewing Stitch
Types........................................................................
.... 10
Yordan Kyosev and Hassan Saeed
Chapter 3 Stitch Formation
Process.....................................................................2
6
Yordan Kyosev
Chapter 4 Needle Thread
Motion.......................................................................
. 57
Yordan Kyosev
Chapter 5 Sewing
Needles......................................................................
.............69
Daniela Sofronova
Chapter 6 Sewing Needle: Mechanism and
Forces.............................................92
Daniela Sofronova
Chapter 7 Sewing
Threads......................................................................
........... 111
Ruth Kneisel
Chapter 8 Thread Consumption for Different Stitch
Types............................... 162
Yordan Kyosev
Chapter 9 Material
Transport....................................................................
......... 174
Hassan Saeed
Chapter 10 Quality Control during the Sewing
Process...................................... 192
Denise Lenk and Johannes Taesler
Chapter 11 The Evolution of Embroidery
Machines...........................................205
Cindy Elschner and Judith Hahn
Chapter 12 Embroidery of Conductive Threads in
Textiles................................228
Daniela Sofronova and Radostina A. Angelova
Chapter 13 Spacer
Stitching....................................................................
.............260
Hassan Saeed
Chapter 14 Sewing Machines for Leather and Other Heavy
Products................ 275
Tatjana Spahiu, Liliia Chertenko and Ermira Shehi
Chapter 15 Automated Sewing
Places.................................................................295
Sophie Herz, Karl Hesse and Laura Spindler
Index........................................................................
............................................... 313
Yordan Kyosev has been head of the chair of assembly technology for textile at ITM, TU Dresden since 2019, where he teaches courses related to joining flexible materials (sewing and welding machines and processes, machines for the preparation of apparel production, product development for apparel production). From 1997 to 2005, he was an assistant professor at TU Sofia, where he taught the construction and development of sewing and textile machines, technical mechanics, and knitting technology. From 2006 to 2019, he was professor at Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences. Dr Kyosev is the founder and main developer of the company TexMind, which provides software for the engineering development and simulation of textile structures, sewing stitches for their joining, and the processes of the formations of both structures and stitches. He uses his software packages (Braider, Braiding Machine Configurator, Warp Knitting Editor, Stitch Creator, TexMind Viewer) to generate large numbers of illustrations and pictures in his books. He is also editor-in-chief of the Journal of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics, published by SAGE (IF 0.814) and the journal Communications in Development and Assembling of Textile Products.
