| 摘要 |
Towels which produce little to no lint (herein referred to as "lint-free") and methods for making such towels are described herein. The lint-free towels contain a small amount of short cotton fibers in the pile yarn and the pile yarn contains a low twist factor. In the preferred embodiment, 24% or more of the noil is removed when the pile yarn is produced. This combination of low twist factor with few short cotton yarn, results in soft, absorbent, lint-free towels. Preferably, the lint-free towels contain yarn with a hairiness index of 5 to 7.5. The lint-free towels are produced by twisting the pile yarn with a poly vinyl alcohol (PVA) spun yarn. After weaving the yarns to form a towel, the PVA yarn is then dissolved during the production process, leaving twistless pile yarn.
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