Authors:- Dr. Nemailal Tarafder
Abstract:-Sports textiles belong to a category called sports tech, which is one of the main stream of technical textiles. In various sportswear, the items like jersey or T-shirts, shorts, caps, footwear. Etc and some sports accessories are known as sports textiles. Performance enhancing smart clothing for outdoor sports such as in running and cycling should be suited to all seasons along with hygiene characteristics and functionality, in addition to that an exceptional aesthetic appearance also. Textile plays a major role in sports and without textiles sports existence is very difficult. Smart fabrics allow for greater and more precise control over how our body perform and they similarly alter our understanding of the materiality and bodily presence with regards to fashion. The high-tech textiles comprehend compression garment, smart textiles and wearable technologies. Smart textiles will result in great benefits for athletes, such as performance, data analysis, health, training technique and comfort. Major companies have been in research for smart textiles for new possibilities to incorporate fabrics or textiles with emerging technologies to improve the consumer’s life style. Polyester has a tendency to cause dye migration between the fabric dye and the decoration. Active wear fabrics are important to the comfort of athletes.
Keywords: sport tech, smart textiles, high-tech performance, artificial turf, wearable technology, intelligent textiles, micro electronics, temperature sensitive
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