Care and Maintenance of Textile Products Including Apparel and Protective Clothing
Rajkishore Nayak author Saminathan Ratnapandian author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:15th Mar '18
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- Paperback£110.00(9781138565814)
Proper care and maintenance of textile materials is essential in prolonging their durability and appearance. This books describes methods of care and maintenance for textile products, focusing on types of laundering and dry-cleaning processes, chemicals, and equipment, while considering the environmental impacts of these procedures and green cleaning approaches. It details care labelling of garments, including electronic care labelling and instructions for different specialty textiles. Factors such as pilling, abrasion, snagging, color fading, and dimensional change are discussed. This book also emphasizes care and maintenance of textiles used for protection from fire, bullets, cold weather, and chemicals.
"This comprehensive book covers a wide variety of themes from cleaning of textile and apparel materials and environmental and health hazards, to specific applications. This is the first book of its kind to give a complete coverage of care and maintenance of textiles and apparels. It is a good book and worth reading as far as care and maintenance of textile and apparel products."
—K.N. Chatterjee, The Technological Institute of Textile and Sciences, Bhiwani, India
"This book will be the first in the subject area covering a wide range of chapters. Starting from general washing, dry-cleaning; this book has covered the cleaning of various protective clothing, effect of cleaning on the clothing properties; details of care labeling and the recent developments; care of specialty textile items and the environmental and health impacts of care and maintenance. This book can be a good source of knowledge for many academic institutions and researchers working in the textile and clothing areas."—Asis Patnaik,Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa
ISBN: 9781138566750
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 408g
192 pages