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[…]
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[…]
