About parachute fabrics:

• A parachute is an apparatus used to protect the users who are using to slow down their progress as the person or object falls down or moves through the air.
• It is mainly used by person dropped from airplane. It is also used to slow down the speed of racing car, aircraft during landing etc.
• There are two main types of parachutes:
• One is a dome canopy.
• The other is a rectangular parafoil.
• Either type of parachute weighs less than 7 kg and approximately price varies from $1,200-$ 1,500.

Product characteristics:

• A parachute consists of four main components:
• Parachute canopy,
• Rip-cords,
• Suspension lines and
• The harness.

1. Parachute canopy-Parachute canopies are primarily made of high tensile nylon multi-filament fibres, generally ripstop woven, from 32 to 200 deniers. For manufacturing ripstop fabrics a special technique is introduced which made them very much resistant to tearing & ripping. Air-permeability is one of the most important characteristics because it determines the behavior of the parachute itself, the rate of descent depends dramatically on this characteristic. The fabric should be of minimal thickness to enable folding of the parachute into a bag
2. Harness – It is normally a rope arrangement usually fixed firmly at the back of the person who are using parachute. The harness is specifically assembled so that the parachutist may not get injured as the forces of deceleration and wind are passing on to the wearer's body as the parachute opens.
3. Rip-cord - A rip-cord is used to open the duck pack and allow the chute to deploy (pop out). The rip-cord can be used in three different ways (pulling the rip manually, a static line connected to the aircraft deploys the chute as the person jumps or automatically as the pilot is ejected from the aircraft).
4. Suspension lines – It is the line which connects the canopy (parachute cloth) to a ring on the harness.

Raw materials:

• Parachute canopies are primarily made of high tensile nylon multi-filament fibres, usually ripstop woven, from 32 to 200 deniers with GSM of around 35.
• Harness, webbing, tapes etc are made-up of high tensile nylon yarn (denier range 210 to 840 denier) as nylon has the highest strength to weight ratio.

Technology:
Weaving