THERE IS NO SILVER BULLET to Real World Personal Cooling Solutions

It takes a combination of #coolingtechnologies to get it right.

After looking at various cooling technologies available including Phase Change Cooling and active cooling fabrics like KewlFabric 7101, we thought it time to create a series of articles that dive into some details about our Support Fabrics.  These Support Fabrics are a key component of our overall personal #coolingsolution offering that helps to address heat in all environments and for any activity.

Our Support Fabrics can work alone or with our active cooling solutions (Phase Change Cooling and KewlFabric 7101) to help you #BeattheHeat.

First, a quick overview of what makes our Support Fabrics so special.

At its fundamental level, the double yarn cooling fabric technology used by our Support Fabrics allows you to select two different filament types to create two unique yarns that are then knitted or woven together.  With different cross sections that alter the rate of hydrophilic power within the yarns, you create a fabric that allows you to control water absorption and evaporation. 

When combined with KewlFabric 7101, providing a continuous source of water, you can create a fabric that generates a more intense and longer lasting cooling effect as the wicking yarns pull water from KewlFabric 7101, and the evaporative yarns pull water from the wicking yarns and quickly evaporate it.

This double yarn cooling fabric technology maximizes your final cooling fabric options with

    • Weight

    • Pattern & Color

    • Yarn selection (polyester etc.)

    • Filament shape of yarn (circular, cross, y-shaped etc.)

    • Tightness of knitting or weave (to help with UPF rating without treatments)

While full fabric customization is possible, we do offer a selection of fabrics ready for use by you focused on the 4 key elements of selecting the best cooling fabrics. 

Alot of company’s talk about how wonderful their cooling solution is.  How cold it gets, or how versatile it is.  Sometimes they even throw out a quick stat, like a temperature, never mentioning cooling capacity, duration, absorbency, and activation process as a set of criteria.  We had a series of articles to help you determine what makes a great active cooling fabric to help you separate the quality from the noise.

We recently completed a round of testing on some of our best selling Support Fabrics.  These support fabrics are used in shirts, sleeves, neck coolers/gaiters with, and without KewlFabric 7101 garments, to super charge your body’s natural cooling process.

Quality stands out … when the right standards are set and met.  And OEKO-Tex certification is just an added bonus of using our Support Fabrics!

Our KFS 053 used to make gaiters and arm sleeves had a cooling capacity or QMax score of 0.247 W/cm2 and a UPF rating of 50+

Our KFS 095 used to make T-Shirts had a cooling capacity or Qmax score of 0.272 W/cm2 and a UPF rating of 50+

Our KFS 006A used to make cooling towels had a cooling capacity or Qmax score of 0.201 W/cm2 and a UPF rating of 50+

For comparison purposes some of the below fabrics Qmax tests received the below results.  Keep in mind that Bamboo, silk, Jade (not listed below) and Lyocell can be very expensive options.

The right stuff at the right price.

The Technology of Kewl!  Beat the Heat!  Get It Done!