A Guide to Textile and Clothing
A Guide to Textile and Clothing
There are many steps involved in making the clothes we wear. First the garment manufacturer receives the fabric and stores them for conditioning. Then they spread them on the cutting table and lay them for marking according to the design. Then the fabrics are cut and send to the next stage for sewing. Wastage percentage[…]
Blended fabric is a collection of many artists work mixture of styles and a celebration of talent. Blends are any textile materials from fibres through yarn to fabric which are deliberate combinations of chemically or physically fibrous polymer. Under this definition, blends can range from bi-component fibres, mixture of different filament core spun yarn, uniformly[…]
Colorfastness to Perspiration The garments which come into contact with the body reference where perspiration is heavy (like neck, underarm, etc.) may suffer from local severe discoloration. The resistance to color of textile against the discoloration effect of acidic or alkaline perspiration is the colorfastness to perspiration. Instruments and Materials Needed for Perspiration Test Acrylic[…]
Stenter machine is not only a dryer but also used for many other purposes. Here knitted and woven fabric in open width form is treated. This multipurpose machine is used for the following purposes: Drying Heat setting Width control Curing Finishing chemical application Selvedge printing Uniform moisture control for pad batch dyeing Loop control Weft[…]
Knit fabric dyeing in a winch machine is a standard method used in textile industries to dye knitted fabrics. The winch dyeing machine is a type of dyeing machine that operates by rotating fabric in a dye liquor using a winch mechanism. This method ensures the even distribution of dye and facilitates the dyeing process[…]
Introduction Colorfastness is a term used in the dyeing of textile materials color to fading or running. The term is usually used in the contact of clothes. In general, clothing should be tested for colorfastness before using bleach or other cleaning product. Lightfastness, wash fastness and perspiration fastness are the main ones that are standardized[…]
