finishing

Nanometer (Nm) resins have been shown to modify fiber behavior in existing textile yarn. Incorporation of nanometer (Nm) resins in conventional warp size formulations improve weaving performance, improve fabric quality and reduce cost.

People involved with colour and colour reproduction needed a unique and unambiguous specification of colour, leading to colours being expressed in numeric codes, which is explained in detail in this article like the perception of colours,…

Majority of the textiles printed in the global market are printed with the screen printing technique due to its simplicity. The demand for screen printing in the packaging industry is significantly high with around 9% of the labels printed…

Batik is a textile art used to print or decorate the fabric and also called as "wax writing". It is a technique of covering parts of fabric which will not receive color. The creation of batik involves three major processes – waxing, dying…

It is possible to press samples of light clothing, such as dresses, blouses, and nightdresses, on versatile unit equipped with a hand iron. However, if the samples are of constructed garments, while most of the simple under pressing…

When ‘colour’ is applied to a fabric it is termed as dyeing. Dyeing and printing of fabrics are usually done after routine or basic finishes but prior to the application of other finishes. It is mainly done to give color to the fabric and…

Special finishes are done on textile materials to enable it to use for special purposes such as the finishing of fabrics with flame retardants can reduce the tendency to burn or reduce the tendency to propagate the flame. Laminating is the…

There are finishes done on garments such as Permanent Press Finish particularly on pants for center crease of the pants to stay crisp and make them look fresh and neat.

There are finishes applied to fabrics to enhance the look and feel of the fabric, in other ways the finishes neither strengthen the quality of the fabric nor they are done to transform the fabric for special purposes such as the fire…

The final chemical treatments of the fabric which are carried out to impart special characteristics e.g. softening, stiffening, crease resisting, flame retarding, soil release effect etc. is known as textile finishing. The aim of the…