Wet Processing

Pad-Batch Dyeing Pick-up Calculator

In padding, shade depth is pick-up multiplied by bath concentration. Nothing exhausts.

Padder Check Weighed sample
g
g
Batch Bath and load
g/L
kg

Wet Pick-up

— %

Liquor carried per unit dry fabric weight

Batch Requirement

Liquor Required
— L
Dye Required
— kg
Resulting Depth of Shade
— % owf
Liquor per kg of Fabric
— L/kg

Check pick-up across the full width. An uneven nip gives side-to-centre shade variation that no amount of batching time will correct.

Pad-Batch Dyeing Pick-up Calculator — free, with the formula and a worked example, at Textile School.