Care and Maintenance of Textile Products Including Apparel and Protective Clothing [Paperback]

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.

Contents. Introduction. Cleaning of textile materials. Equipment for care of textiles. Care labelling. Care instructions for specialty textile items. Stains. Storage of clothing. Environmental impact and health hazards of cleaning. Future trends. Conclusions. References

This books describes methods of care and maintenance for textile products, focusing on types of laundering and dry-cleaning processes, chemicals, and equipment. It details care labelling of garments and discusses various factors such as pilling, abrasion, snagging, color fading, and dimensional change.

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 coveredls