Colour Fastness of Textile Materials to Laundry
Anna Borisova

Description of the Technology

Colour fastness to laundry of textiles samples is evaluated after 1-5 washing cycles. During the testing, colour differences of dyed textile sample and cross-staining of a spliced white textile is detected by grey scale (staining) ( SDL Atlas Ltd, UK) and spectrophotometer X-Rite Ci7600 (X-Rite, Inc., USA).



Applications

For all types of dyed textile materials (woven, knit, nonwoven textiles) for which wet-treatment processing is intended.



Advantages

Testing method is elaborated on the basis of standards LVS EN ISO 105-C10:2007, LVS EN ISO 105-J03:2010, LVS EN ISO 105-A05:2001 and ISO 105-A02:1993, and adopted to recommendations of home laundering process for textile materials.



Keywords

textile materials,laundry,colour fastness,colour differences

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