‘Finishing’ Posts

 

Color Fastness To Wash of Textile Materials | Fastness Measurement

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Color fastness to wash is very important for Lab-dip. There are varieties of testing procedure, because – Washing conditions may vary from one country to another. The methods on the use of dyed goods. To evaluate repeated washing accelerated test methods are used. The degree of fading and staining of dyed goods for washing depends [...]

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Flame Retardant Finish on Polyester/cotton Blend Fabric

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Today I will describe about the flame retardant finishes on Polyester of cotton blend fabric. Polyester fiber is self extinguished by melt drip, but in case of Polyester/Cotton blend, cotton burns to skeleton of black carbonaceous char on which molten drips of polyester sticks and gives scaffolding effect, heat is transferred to cotton char and [...]

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Flame Retardant (Resistant) Finishing Agents for Different Textile Materials.

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Today I am going to discuss about Flame Retardant Finishing process on Textile Materials like Textile Cotton, Polyester fiber and fabrics. The burning cycle of polymeric material consist of 3 steps which is shown below- If a polymeric material is caught by fire, the polymer absorb heat and melts which is the 1st step (Condensed [...]

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What Are the Process Sequence or Flow Chart of Knit Finishing

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Knitted fabric can be finished by two ways. One is Tubular Form and another is Open Width Form. Here I will give you a process sequence of both of these- A)    Tubular Form Hydro-extractor ↓ De-watering ↓ Dryer ↓ Tubular Compactor ↓ Delivery B)     Open Width Form Hydro-Extractor ↓ De-watering ↓ Dryer ↓ Slitter ↓ [...]

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