Common Fabric Defects their Causes and

Value loss
Name: Mubeen Afzal
Reg.no: 18-NTU-1485
Department: BS-TMM 6th
Fabric Defects
 Fabrics Defects:
• A fabric defect corresponds to a flaw on the manufactured fabric surface. There are numerous fabric defects,
and most of them are caused by machine or process malfunctions.
• Apart from this, defects are caused by faulty yarns or machine spoils.
 Value loss Concept:
• Value loss means missing of any property of material which is related to comfort, value addition ,
dimensional property, weight loss more than optimum value, low moisture content in fabric, bursting strength
of material, shade variation during processing.
Common Fabric Defects
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Horizontal lines Shade variation Dirt/stains Uneven dyeing Drop stitches

Misprinting Barre Crease marks Naps/knots Abrasion marks

Splicing Holes Defective selvage Snags Thick place/thin Missing end

place

Needle lines Filling bar Coarse end Broken pick Broken end
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Common Fabric Defects

 Horizontal lines
• A faulty bobbin (barrel that is used to hold yarn intact).
• An irregular tension in the thread.
 Shade variation
• Using a mixture of different fabrics in the production of the fabric.
• Incorrect time or speed used in the production process.
• Unequal stretch in the fabric.
 Stains on the garment
• This is because garments are extremely likely to get stained by many sources such as dirt on the factory floor,
oil or grease from the machines, or in fact any dirty surface that the garments contact.
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Common Fabric Defects

 Drop stitches
• Drop stitches are random holes, usually in the form of missed stitches that appear in the
raw textile. Significantly lower the quality of the garment if not spotted on time.
• Incorrect set-up of yarn carriers.
• Yarn overfeeding or underfeeding.
 Misprinting
• Misprinting is when the actual print on the fabric does not match the design that was
ordered. This can be in the form of missing or partially missing colors/patterns or
having them incorrectly positioned on the fabric.

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Common Fabric Defects

 Barre
• A barre is simply a continuous pattern of bars or stripes that unintentionally present on
the fabric. It is usually of a light or dark brown color.
• It is not easy to detect barre until after the processing of the fabric is finished in the
production process.
 Neps
• Neps are basically very tightly tangled, small knots that form a sort of pinhead shape in
the fabric.
• These are most made up of any dead fibers that are left behind in the fabric during the
production process. 

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Common Fabric Defects

 Holes
• Holes in the fabric are treated as a major defect because it often
results in the rejection of the fabric by the customers. It is thereby
very important that there exist no holes in the fabric.
 Snags
• A snag is usually visible as a loop of yarn that rises above the
surface of the fabric- it may be accidently pulled or plucked from
the surface.

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