A Guide to Textile and Clothing
A Guide to Textile and Clothing
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[…]
Jute fibre, also known as “the golden fibre of Bangladesh,” is a long, soft, shiny vegetable fibre obtained from the jute plant’s bark (Corchorus spp.). It is one of the world’s most affordable and widely used natural fibres. Primarily it grows in tropical regions, including India, Bangladesh, China, and Thailand. It is composed mainly of[…]
Normally garment or apparel washing means cleaning of dirty garments with soap or detergent. But it is not that garments washing. An industrial apparel washing is a technology. The technology which is used to modify the outlook, appearance, comfort-ability and design of the ready made apparel made from solid color dyed or pigment printed fabric[…]
Definition of Garments Dyeing At first garments dyeing technology applied on woolen and silk garments but now it is applied on polyester, acrylic, nylon and also extensively on cotton garments. Its popularity is increasing all over the world. There are many advantages of garments dyeing which are the reasons of its popularity increase. Normally we[…]
Water resistant and Wind resistant clothing It is seen that the human body can lose temperature in various method. Especially in freezing weather and air-blowing situation, the temperature of the human body can be lost very quickly. In cold weather, a person riding a bicycle can lose temperature very quickly. Under these circumstances, the person[…]
Heat Setting Heat-setting can be defined as a treatment by which shape retention, crease resistance, elasticity etc. is given to the fibres. It also changes the strength, softness and dye-ability of the material. All these changes are directly connected with the structural and chemical modifications occurring in the fibre. The heat-setting process is mainly used[…]
