Reaction of Fabrics under burn test
April 29, 2010
Cotton, a plant fiber smells similar to burning leaves right when being burned with steady flames. The residue that is the ash remains can be easily crumbled. Few small burning cotton samples too can be burnt out just the way a candle does.
Linen: Another variety of plant fiber is slightly different in approach from cotton since cotton fibers are shorter than linen yarns that are made up longer. Much more time is taken by linen to ignite. Material/fabric which is close to ash is brittle. Linen can be quickly extinguished while being blown over just like a candle.
Silk burns quickly and is a protein fiber, not specifically with a steady kind of flame but with a smell of burning hair. Residue is quickly crumbled. Samples of silk cannot be quickly extinguished like linen and cotton.
Wool takes time to be ignited in comparison to silk and is hard protein fiber since individual fibers of hair are short than silk and fabric weave is usually loose than that’s there in silk. Steady flame is there but cannot be kept burning for long.
