A Guide to Textile and Clothing
A Guide to Textile and Clothing
Definition of Textile Finishing In textile manufacturing, finishing refers to the processes that convert the woven or knitted fabrics into a usable material and more specifically to any process performed after dyeing the yarn or fabric to improve the look, performance or “hand feel” of the finished textile product or clothing. In another way we[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
Definition of Resin Synthetic resins are complex organic products of high molecular weight. Resin results when a number of simple molecular of low molecular weight become jointed together and to end to form much longer molecules which may be linear or linear molecules cross-linked. The main outlet of resins has been the plastic industry and[…]
