What is ISO 17751-1 – Quantitative analysis of cashmere, wool, other speciality animal fibres and their blends about?
ISO 17034 is an international standard that focuses on quantitative analysis of cashmere, wool, other speciality animal fibres and their blends. ISO 17034 specifies a method for the identification, qualitative, and quantitative analysis of cashmere, wool, other speciality animal fibres, and their blends using light microscopy (LM).
Who is ISO 17751-1 - Quantitative analysis of cashmere, wool, other speciality animal fibres and their blends for?
ISO 17751-1 on quantitative analysis of cashmere, wool, other speciality animal fibres and their blends is useful for:
- Manufacturing unit of fabrics
- Textile manufacturers and suppliers
- Textile testing laboratories
Why should you use ISO 17751-1 - Quantitative analysis of cashmere, wool, other speciality animal fibres and their blends?
Cashmere is a high-value speciality animal fibre, but cashmere and other animal wool fibres such as sheep’s wool, yak, camel, etc. exhibit great similarities in their physical and chemical properties so that their blends are difficult to distinguish from each other by both mechanical and chemical methods. In addition, these fibres show similar scale structures.
ISO 17751-1 proven in practice that the accuracy of a fibre analysis is highly related to the ample experience, full understanding, and extreme familiarity of the fibre analyst to the surface morphology of various types of animal fibres so, besides the textual descriptions, several micrographs of different types of animal fibres are given in Annex C.
The advantage of ISO 17751-1 is that fibres' internal medullation and pigmentation can be observed; the disadvantage is that some subtle surface structures cannot be displayed. A decolouring process needs to be carried out on dark samples for testing. An improper decolouring process can affect the judgment of the fibre analyst.