A Guide to Textile and Clothing
A Guide to Textile and Clothing
Definition of Hosiery Before the sixteenth century, the Angelo Saxon word “hosa” designated a woven cloth garment that covered the lower portion of the body as well as the legs. As knitting was popularized and practiced to a great extent throughout England and Scotland, it soon became customary to knit the leg coverings separately by[…]
The machine was originally developed for solvent dyeing. The goods are placed in a rotating drum (D), which is rotated by a motor (M). The dye liquor is made up in the mixing tank (T). The drum is set in motion. The dye liquor is pumped via valve (V) and pump (P) and is sprayed[…]
A wet processing technology which uses air in form of dispersion foam for the media of application is called foam finishing. The process consists of mechanically forming a suitable formulated finish or dye formulation and then applying the foam to textile fabrics. Collapse of the foam distributes the finish on the substrate. The fabric is[…]
Printing is the process where the print paste is applied on the subjected fabric or garment swatch or whole garment to create printed patterns or designs. In this process, colourful patterns and designs are created that give a new look to the fabric and clothing. It can be done manually or by machine methods. There[…]
Dyeing and printing are the most common terms for textile manufacturers. These terms look accessible here but are challenging to finalize because proper shade matching is complex in the dyeing and printing industries. Therefore, very skilled staffing and skilled dyeing master are needed here. These terms are different from each other. But some of us[…]
Optical Brightening Agents (OBA) are colorless or very pale yellow colored organic compounds which when added to a substrate increase the apparent reflectance in the visible by converting ultra-violet radiation into visible light and thus increase the whiteness or brightness. An OBA can be called a colorless dye which has some substractivity for the fibre[…]
