Garment Defects - Textile Document

Garment DefectsGarment defects can be separated into 3 categories: 1.. Fabric defects: These are defects that are found in the fabric, mostly these are not caused by the sewing lines..

Southeast University

Department Of Textile Engineering

I/A 251,252 Tejgaon Dhaka Banglade sh

prepared by : Mazadul Hasan sheshir

Garment Defects

Garment defects can be separated into 3 categories:

1 Fabric defects:

These are defects that are found in the fabric, mostly

these are not caused by the sewing lines e.g running shade, selvedge to selvedge shade, holes, staining mark, missing

yarn, foreign yarn, slub, hairiness etc

2 Workmanship and handling defects:

These are defects that are directly caused by production section, this would include both the cutting and sewing

section Buyer’s approved samples must be referred to

maintain perfect workmanship

Note: Workmanship means all the details such as

measurement, outlook, ways of attaching trims, packing etc

Garments Defects(Contd.)

3 Trims, accessories and embellishment defects:

These defects include color, size and placement of trims such

as labels, sewing thread, screen print , embroidery

designs, zipper, hangtag, lining , button and any kind of trims

Defects are also classified (as per extent of defect) into

Critical, Major and Minor defects

1.Critical defects are defects that are not allowed to be

shipped and are the most serious of defects (0%)

2 Major defects are serious defects that are not allowed over

a certain percentage (3%) depending on buyers

requirements

3 Minor defects are serious defects that are not allowed over

a certain percentage (5%) depending on buyers

requirements

Garments Defects (Contd.)

Typical Defects:

1 Fabric defects:

Fabric inspection method.

2.Workmanship defect:

a) Seam Puckering: refers to the gathering of a seam either just after

sewing or after laundering causing an unacceptable seam

appearance.

This problem arises due to uneven stretching on to plies of fabric

during sewing , improper thread tension , wrong sewing thread selection , dimensional instability of the plies of fabric etc

cutting , bundling and numbering

Garments Defects (Contd.)

c) Open seam or broken seam: Portion of the garment that has not been covered by sewing thread.

This happens due to improper handling of the parts of garments , improper setting and timing between needle and looper or hook etc.

d) Broken Stitch: Non-continuous sewing thread.

It appears due to improper trimming or machine usage.

e) Drop stitch/Skipped stitch: Irregular stitching along the seam

It appears due to improper handling of cut pieces or machine

usage.

Garment Defects (Contd.)

Stitches are not straight It appears due to improper

handling of cut pieces , faulty feed mechanism , needle

deflection or wrong needle

g) Uncut/ loose thread :

Extra thread or loose thread on seam line It appears due

to improper trimming or finishing

h) Sizing defects (Difference in measurement of various parts

of garments), wrong placement of pocket, buttonhole,

embroidery and prints , measurement discrepancy- all

these problems come from pattern section

Garments Defect(Contd.)

I) Poor ironing- if not sufficient, there might be creases and

crinkles on garment surface and if ironing is too heavy, there might be shining mark on garment.

j) misaligned buttons and holes ,unfinished buttonhole, missing buttons, wrong placement of labels, hang tag, wrong folding

or poor folding , improper packing into cartons – all these

defects come from finishing section.

3 Trims, accessories and embellishment defects:

Unmatched color of thread, button and zipper tape, short

zippers, faulty zippers, wrong labels, improper size of the

labels, printing mistake of labels and cartons, broken poly

bag , wrong hanger, improper embroideries and prints etc