Colorfastness Properties of Naturally Colored Cotton Grown in China to Laundry
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE The year 2009 was proclaimed as the International Year of Natural Fibers by the United Nationsl. The main issues for textile professionals who would like to engage in this campaign are: emphasizing the value of natural fibers to consumers, promoting the efficiency and sustainability of the natural fibers industries, encouraging appropriate policy responses from governments, fostering an effective and enduring international partnership among the various natural fibers industries. With the challenge of maintaining the market for natural fibers competing with manufactured fibers, with the concern of environmental issues involved in the production and consumption of manufactured fibers, conducting research in assisting the new applications of natural fibers will therefore be beneficial to farmers, processors, manufacturers, traders, retailers and especially, consumers. Naturally colored and organic cotton, to be grown in different colors without the use of any synthetic fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides in production and toxic chemicals in textile processing, has gained popular acceptance due to its positive role in environmental protection and the avoidance of chemical harm to human bodies. The objective of this research is to investigate the effect of laundering on the fastness properties of naturally organic colored cotton grown in China by using different laundry methods. The main effects of laundry methods, cycles, fabrics and the two-way interaction between fabrics and methods were found to be significant on color change for three colored fabrics.
Wei Cao Mary Ann Moore
California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA 91330 Florida State University,Tallahassee, FL 32306
国际会议
上海
英文
1558-1559
2009-05-27（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）