People have been paying attention to wearers comfort with functional textile products, the clothing type of which are further required to be eco-friendly and versatile as well as to help health care and to make wearers comfortable. This study uses bamboo charcoal (BC)/stainless steel (SS) wrap yarns for warp-knitted fabrics with three structural arrangements, and the influence of which on the far infrared (FIR) emissivity, softness, air permeability, and water absorption of the resulting warp-knitted fabrics are then examined. The FIR emissivity of all three fabric types is beyond 0.8. Single-faced, front-weft BC/SS warp-knitted fabrics possess optimal air permeability of 290 cm3/s/cm2 and optimal softness of 3.9 cm. The results of this study can serve as reference for the research design and direction of health care fabrics and increase their added value.
