Experimental study of gluing as a joining method for garments

Seams of garments and other textile fabrics are usually sewn. Different adhesive techniques can be used to connect textile materials for special purposes, often to create waterproof seams. Gluing and other bonding methods, however, usually necessitate special machines which are not always available in textile production companies. On the other hand, only few reports about using household adhesives can be found in the literature. This is why this paper reports on tests of different commercially available adhesives which were used to bond diverse textile fabrics. The results show that most of these adhesives are not suitable for creating reliable bonds between most textile materials. Only one of the two-component adhesives under examination which is flexible, but not explicitly suggested for textile fabrics has shown to create sufficient adhesion forces between most textile materials.