Description:
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.
Review Quotes:
"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