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articles/ 56 pages

Tie Dye Fabric |Tie and Dye | Tie Dye |Tie & Dye | How to do Techniques on tie dye

Combined Desizing and Color Fading of Garments | Denim Clothing desizing and fading | Denim dyed material finishing

Articles on Antimicrobial finish, Tie Dye, Micro fibres, Man made fibers, Poly-Nylon Blend dyeing, Stain Removal, Flame Retardant finishes etc

http://www.thesmarttime.com/articles/tips-on-tie-dye.htm

Articles on Application of Natural Dyes, Reactive robust trichromatic combinations, Eco friendly surfactants, Digital Print Glossary

Denim garment desizing and color fading process

Antimicrobial Finish, application technique, hints, finish Properties

Micro Fibers - Extra soft and extra thin fibers for special purpose utilities

Properties of Man Made fibers

Natural Man Made fibers - properties - a complete directory

Polyester Nylon Micro fiber blends dyeing techniques and tips

Stain Removal Tips for Iron Stains in the Laundary

Grease Stain Removal Tips for garment exporters and fabric processors

Common domestic stain removal techniques from textile garments

Factors that affect the textile finishing process

Glassary of Color Space Terminology used in Color Matching Computers in Textile Color measurements

Colors and Dyes - What is color? How to measure?

Flame Retardant finishes - specifications generally required

Stain Protection - Stain Guard finish Specifications

Fabric Care Symbols

What is Oeko-Tex Standard? How to get it? what are the benefits you get?

http://www.thesmarttime.com/articles/GOTS_version-1-1.pdf

Photochromism - change of colour due to light - Photochromatism or Photochromism in textile dyestuffs and dyed fabrics

Use of catalysts in textile finishing operations

How Higher TDS affects the textile fabric finishing?

Limitations of Finishng Agents in textile finishing

Thermo migration and sublimation during textile finishng operations

Compatibility of different finishing agents used in textile finishing

Natural Dyestuffs on Textiles - Application of Natural dyes on textiles - techniques and other useful tips

Digital Print Glossary of useful terms

Dystar RR dyes - Dyeing methods, special tips and Econmy of using Dystar RR dyestuffs"

Environment friendly surfactants

Testing method for natural dyed materials| Testing of Natural Dyes

Wetting and Wicking properties of fibers & fabrics

Wetting and Wicking properties of fibers

What is Digital Printing? Textile Printing technlogy trends

Garment Processing | Stone washing | Enzyme Washing | Denim Bleaching | Enzyme Bleaching of Denim

Carpet varietis - type of carpets anf manufacturing process

Garment finishing with stone wash, color faded fancy effects

Textile Printing Technology - present trends and future needs

Digital Printing Technology - Types of digital printings - Continuous & Drop on demand

Continuous Jet Digital Printing Technology

Air Jet Deflection Digital Printing

Drop on Demand Digital Printing Technology

Piezo Drop On Demand Digital Printing

Essential elements of inkjet printing

Air Jet Deflection Digital Printing

Fabric Feeding System of an inkjet printer

Inkjet inks - its ideal property requirements

Reactive and Acid Dyes for Inkjet printning

Pigment and Disperse dyes in inkjet inks

Spot colors and process colors - what they are?

Fabric post processing - after treatments required for inkjet printed fabric

Slow Adoption of digital printing - reasons

dev/ 13 pages

Properties of Man Made fibers

UV Protected Nano Silver Coated Fabrics

Nano Textile - The Next Generation Developments

Organic Clothing - Wear with Awareness

http://www.thesmarttime.com/dev/colored-cotton.pdf

What is Hemp Fiber? What are its properties?

Bamboo fiber, fabric - eco friendly bamboo clothing - About bamboo fiber

Uses for Hemp Fibre

Dyeing and Finishing of Hemp Fibers | Bio-polishing of Hemp Fibers | Hemp Processing Methods

Manufacturing techniques of Hemp Fabric

Dyeing and Finishing of Hemp Fibers | Bio-polishing of Hemp Fibers | Hemp Processing Methods

Ecology of Hemp

Industrial Hemp for Renewable energy

faq/ 17 pages

Frequently faced bleaching, dyeing, finishing and printng problems

Batch to Batch shade variation (color variation) in reactive dyeing of cotton textiles

Cotton Viscose blend dyeing with a reactive dyestuff - can you get a solid shade?

No Soaping with a detergent after dyeing a reactive dyestuff combination

Increase in depth of Cotton dyed goods without increasing the dyestuff concentration - Is it possible?

What are some important points for achieving level dyeing in jet dyeing with reactive dyes?

What is the best method for stripping a reactive dyed material in cheese form?

What is APEO? What are APEO free surfactants?

Is there any possibility of improving the light fastness of a reactive dyed material?

In Viscose-Lycra blended knit fabrics, after compaction and relaxation of one or two days, elongation occurs across the length of the fabric. Why does this happen and how can it be prevented?

crease marks in heavy knit mercerised collar fabrics - how do this occur and how to prevent it?

Patchy Dyeing in Mercerised Knit Fabrics - Reason and remedy

Penolic Yellowing - what is it?

Change in the tone of shade after drying? What is the reason behind it?

Sodium Alginate - What are the textile uses of sodium alginate?

Water Marks in 100% Cotton Fabric - How to Remove it?

Mildew Removal from fabric? Useful tips

machineries/ 17 pages

Function wise Classification of Textile Processing Machinery- function and manufacturers list

Gas Singeing Machines - Functional details, Techniques, manufacturere's link of singeing machine

Crabbing Range

Chain mercerising machines - salient features- Cotton Fabric and yarn Mercerisation Process

Chainless Mercerising Machines - salient features - advantages over chain mercerising machines

Open Width Scouring Machine

Sueding machines - Emerising - peaching machine

Pressurised Cabinet Dyeing Machine

Package yarn dyeing machines | Cheese yarn dyeing machines | High Temperature High Pressure dyeing machines

Continuous Decatising Machine

Continuous pressing and setting machines

Crabbing Range

Pile Shearing Machines

Sueding machines - Emerising - peaching machine

Shrinking machines - Compacting machine - salient feature

Making Up Machines

Sample Dyeing Machines - Lab dyeing machines and its internal features

pollution/ 4 pages

Water Pollution and Environmental Issues arising out of Textile Processing

Textile Effluent Treatment Process - Oxidation, Reduction, Electrolytic and Flocculation Methods discussed

http://www.thesmarttime.com/pollution/water-and-chemicals-in-processing.pdf

Ozonation - Ozonization - Oxidative Effluent Water Treatment Processes

processing/ 105 pages

Eco Bleaching - Textile bleaching process on ECO FRIENDLY way

Textile Design - What is the requirements and scope of textile design industry

Carpet coloring - carpet cleaning, carpet dyeing - viability studies

What is Eco Processing? - Eco friendly textile processing techniques

Eco Standards and Limits for Textile Processing Industry

Eco friendly textile standards and limits for hazardous chemicals on export quality textiles

List of banned amines in textile processing and export | EU Banned Amines

Eco Dyeing - Textile dyeing process by ECO FRIENDLY way

Eco finishing - Textile Fabric finishng technique by ECO FRIENDLY way

Enzymatic Scouring (bio-scouring) Process technique of textiles, its environmental benefits | Bio catalysts

Textile Pretreatment processes|Textile Links of Home Textiles, Apparels, ready made garments, fashion fabrics, hosiery, eco fabrics|

Biocatalysis, Bio-singeing, Bio-scouring, Bio-bleaching, Bio-peroxide killers - New Enzymatic trends Textile Processing

TheSmartTime.com: Gas Singeing, Peroxide Desizing, Acid Desizing and Enzyme desizing - techniques explained

TheSmartTime.com: Application of Vat Dyes on cotton fabrics - Preconditioning Method of Reactive Dyeing, Properties of Reactive dyestuffs

TheSmartTime.com: Cotton Fabric Dyeing with Reactive dyestuffs - Dyestuff Selection, Continuous Pad Batch Dyeing techniques

Textile Fabric Finishing -Textile Finishing methods - Anti-pilling, soil release, flame retardant, water repellant and water proofing techniques

Salient features of enzyme application in textile process

Pad Application of dyes and chemicals on textile fabrics - principles, techniques and tips

Dyestuff Selection, testing the compatibility of the selection and more tips

Scouring and Bleaching of Wool fibres - Textile wool fabric and fiber pretreatments

Mercerisation - Cotton Fabric and yarn Mercerisation Process | Mercerising defined | Effect of Mercerisation

Application of Vinylsulphone or Vinyl-Sulfone Dyes on Cotton Textiles

Bifunctional dyes - General characteristics | functional characteristics of bifunctional reactive dyes

Best Trichromatic combinations in Bifunctional Dyes

Cold Pad Batch Dyeng Method - An economical and environment friendly method of Reactive Dyeing of Woven and Knit Fabrics

TheSmartTime.com: Reactive Blue R Dyeing Method | Level dyeing with Br. Blue R | Stripping of Optical Brightening Agent

Dyeing Silk with Fiber Reactive Dyes

Dyeing Procedure of disperse dyes - Polyester fabric Dyeing methods - carrier dyeing, thermosol dyeing, printing

Textile Dyeing Problems during summer | Tips on reactive Dyestuff dissolving| Turquoise Blue G and H2GP Tips

Water Hardness and Textile Processing Problems | Fabric Dyeing and Water Hardness | Water Hardness in Bleaching textiles

Isothermal reactive dyeing method - Application of Vinylsulphone or Vinyl-Sulfone Dyes on Cotton Textiles

Properties of Reactice dyestuffs used in Cotton |Textile Processing|

Preconditioning Method of Reactive Dyeing - 20% more depth, 20% Steam Saving and improved wash fastness properties!

vat dyeing - application of vat dyes - Classification of vat dyestuffs, synthesis of vat dyestuffs, fastness properties of vat dyes - a detailed discussion

|Polyamide (Nylon) Pretreatment | Warpknit Polyamide Pretreatment| Nylon scouring and bleaching|

Canvas Fabric Processing | Canvas Dyeing | Canvas water proofing | Canvas Water Repellant fabric | Canvas Rot Proofing

Package dyeing Tips and Techniques - Machinery details and functional problems addressed

No Salt, No Soda ash Reactive dyeing

TheSmartTime.com: Polyester, Polyamide (Nylon) dyeing methods and Eco friendly Reactive Dyeing Techniques

BIOLPOLISHING OF NATURAL FABRICS AND ANTI-PILLING FINISH OF SYNTHETIC FABRICS | Anti-pilling treatments for cotton and synthetic fabrics

Canvas Bleached Collar Lining Fabric - Processing method

Canvas Bleached Water proof fabric processing method, machineries required and Tips

Flame Retardant Finish - various types of flame retardant finishes

Soil release finish - antistatic finish on polyester blends

Water repellent finish on textile fabrics - durable and non-durable

Controlled Compressive Shrinkage Process - Sanforizing, tebilizing, fabric shrink control

Antimicrobial Finish, Properties and specifications

Salient features of enzyme application in textile process

TheSmarttime.Com: Solubility of Reactive Dyestuffs - How to find out the solubility of reactuve dyes?

Decolorization of the dye house effluent using enzymes

What is mangle expression or pick up in textile fabric padding technique?

Wet on Wet pickup calculations in textile wet processing

Chemical Feed Systems - Padding operations in textile wet processing

Wet on Wet pickup calculations in textile wet processing

Basic Physico-chemical calculations of textile industry - conversion of grams per liter to percentage owf

Determination of water Hardness | Method to Test Hard water | How measure water Hardness?

Water treatment |Water Softening Plant |Ion Exchange Water Softening System |Water Quality for dyeing

Hydrogen Peroxide Bleaching Recipe Fabric and Yarn in Batch Processing machines

Whiteness and absorbency test of textiles | Bleach assessment techniques of textile fabrics

Water treatment links - Water pollution, conservation, quality, test parameters

TheSmarttime.Com: Solubility of Reactive Dyestuffs - How to find out the solubility of reactuve dyes?

Wool Processing - Solvent Scouring, carbonizing and desizing of wool - Pretreatment of Wool fibre

Ammonia Mercerising - benefits of ammonia mercerising over caustic mercerising and the process technique

Cold Dyeing Method of Reactive dyeing - Application of Vinylsulphone or Vinyl-Sulfone Dyes on Cotton Textiles

Hot Dyeing method of reactive dyes - Application of Vinylsulphone or Vinyl-Sulfone Dyes on Cotton Textiles

All in one method of reactive dyeing - A versatile Application technique of Vinylsulphone or Vinyl-Sulfone Dyes on Cotton Textiles

Isothermal reactive dyeing method - Application of Vinylsulphone or Vinyl-Sulfone Dyes on Cotton Textiles

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Cooling method of reactive dyeing - Application of Vinylsulphone or Vinyl-Sulfone Dyes on Cotton Textiles

Reactive Bifunctional dyestuff range - shade display with color index number

Softflow Dyeing Machine Cleaning and Loading Procedure - useful tips for all types of machines

Uneven Dyeing in Softflow Machine - Reasons and Tips to avoid it

Textile Dyeing Problems during summer | Tips on reactive Dyestuff dissolving| Turquoise Blue G and H2GP Tips

Right First Time concept of Reactive Dyeing - useful tips

Reactive bifunctional dyes - Cotton fabric dyeing with bifunctional dyes | Textile dyeing with bifunctional dyes

Drimarene dyestuffs and special properties

Reactive bifunctional dyes on cotton fabrics - dyestuff selection, dissolution and useful after treatments

Batch Dyeing of Vat dyes - Batch dyeing characteristics, Substativities of vat dyes, water and preparation process for vat dyeing

Canvas Dyed Water Proof fabric - Processing Sequence, Technique and Tips

Function of flame retardant and mechanism of flame retardancy

Flame Retardant Finish - various types of flame retardant finishes

Flame Retardant Finish - Application Technique on Textiles

Cold Brand Reactive Dyestuffs - self shade display with color index number and properties

Dyeing Silk with Fiber Reactive Dyes

Properties of vat dyes - Leuco Vat dyeing of vat dyes, anion solubility, process conditions for leuco vat dyeing

Vat dyeing methods - prepigmentation method, Semi pigmentation method, After treatments of vat dyed goods, Continuous dyeing of vat dyes, Pad-steam process of vat dyeing

Banned Phenolic compounds in Textile Processing

Formaldehyde - Norms allowed as residue in finished textile goods

Eco standards for color fastness - A glimpse on textile processing to eco standards

Piece dyeing of vat dyes - Stock vat method -I , Caustic and Hydros dosage recipes, list of vat dyestuffs under this group

Stock Vat Method - II of Vat dyeing - List of dyes under this group, Caustic and Hydros dosage recipes

Piece dyeing of vat dyes - Stock Vat Method - III, List of dyes under this group, Caustic and Hydros dosage recipes - Vat Black Dyeing Method

Oxidation methods for Black Vat dyestuffs, after treatment procedures and fastness properties

Caustic Recovery System in Mercerising Plants

Salient features of enzyme application in textile process

Pretreatment of Silk | Silk Scouring, Unscoured silk, Degumming, weighting

Spandex(Lycra) Blended Knit Fabric Pretreatment Technique

Continuous Warp Dyeing of Indigo | Indigo dyeing method | denim warp dyeing

Sulphur Dyes in Garment Dyeing - Method, benefits and Tips | Sulphur dyes application techniques

thesmarttime.com - A Textile Processing Guide for Fabric dyeing,Textile Bleaching,Textile Finishing, Textile Machinery, Textile developments and Textile News

Application of Antimicrobial Finish - The technique of treating fabric with antimicrobial finishing agent

Sulphur Dyeing problems and solution in Garment Dyeing | patchy dyeing, spotty and speckky dyeing

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Your Message Board - Share your message on business offers, job offers, machinery offers and export offers to the World Wide Web

Suppliers/Exporters Seeking Market

Buyers / Importers seeking New Sources of Supply

International Tender Opportunities

Agents/Representatives Needed

Job Offers for job seekers

Jobs Required - Positions required

Buyers / Importers seeking New Sources of Supply

Seeking Purchase of Company, Machinery and Equipment

Showrooms for Lease

Showrooms Needed

Consulting Jobs - Requests for Proposal

Miscellaneous messages

Textile Processing units - Dyeings and Bleaching units in Tamilnadu

Dyes and Chemicals Manufacturers in India

testing/ 39 pages

Textile Testing Methods - Physical and chemical testing methods to assess the quality of textiles and textile chemicals

Textile Wet Processing leveling agents and dispersing agents - How to test the quality of a leveling agents?

What is a Sequestering Agent or Chelating Agent in textile processing? How to test it? What are the quality parameters to be tested?

Textile Wet Processing leveling agents and dispersing agents - How to test the quality of a leveling agents?

What are peroxide stabilizers? How to test the quality of a peroxide stabilizer?

How to test the quality of peroxide killers? Basically what are peroxide killers in textile processing? Testing methods and tips

Cationic Fixing agents - Testing method to find out the quality of Cationic fixing agents

Determination of Acid Value of a product

Determination of Polymer content in a binder

Caustic Soda - Strength testing method and a ready reconer table to find out the strength from Titre value

Testing the concentration of Soda Ash and Hydrogen Peroxide - titrimatric methods

Testing the Strength of Acetic acid, Hydrochloric acid , Sulphuric acid and Oxalic acid

Testing the strength of Sodium Hypochlorite - an analytical method

Copper and Iron traces - Analytical method to test the copper and iron content in the cotton fiber

Greige cotton quality requirements - Quality Assurance tests for Grqige cotton

Tensile Strength Testing of a fabric

Tear Strength Testing

Woven and Knit Fabric Shrinkage Testing methods

Grey Scale for Assessing Shade Change and Staining Scale for Assessing Staining

Rubbing and Crocking Fastness testing procedure of textile processed materials

Colour Fastness test to Chlorinated pool water and Colour Fastness to Water

Test for alkaline and acid perspiration fastness of textile processed materials - Sweat fastness tests

Fastness against Hydrogen Peroxide Bleaching - testing of processed textile materials for hydrogen peroxide bleach fastness

Post Mercerisation fastness testing method of a textile processed material

Testing method to find out perborate fastness or fastness against hydrolysis

Dry Cleaning Fastness of a textile processed material - testing method

Light Fasness Test of Textile Processed materials - gradation procedure of light fastness tested samples

Fabric Pilling Test - Pilling Resistance test procedure on fabrics

Whiteness Index , Yellowness Index - What do they mean in Textile color measurement?

Method of detecting Starch and PVA in a Sized fabric

Desizing Efficiency Testing Method

Absorbency Test of a fabric or yarn to test the efficiency of a wetting agent

Testing the Efficiency of Antimicrobial finish

Flammability Test - Specofication and methods required by various countries

Cotton Fiber Maturity Test - What is fiber maturity, why it is tested ?

Methods of determination of cotton fiber maturity

Determination of percentage maturity of cotton fibers

Estimation of Sequestering Agent using volumetric analysis

Count Strength Product Test - Yarn CSP test Method