cotton fabric printing
Cotton fabric printing with reactive dye using guar gum
A 3-per cent concentration of Guar Gum will be the better alternative for large-scale printing of cotton in home furnishing industries, find Priyanka Kesarwani and Archana Singh.
Cotton is the world 's most used fibre. It is cool, soft, comfortable and the principal clothing fibre of the world. Its production is one of the major factors in the world 's prosperity and economic stability. In the textiles industry more than 78% of the printed goods are of cotton fabric and it has been used for the apparel purpose since centuries. It forms the background of the world textile trades. Printing on these fabric will produce a variety of designs attractively and economically.
The most commonly used thickeners for printing one cotton fabric is sodium alginate, but in view of its high price, partly substituting guar gum represents an acceptable alternative. Therefore, an attempt was made to print cotton fabric with sodium alginate and guar gum and compare its property and cost to the samples printed with sodium alginate.
Methodology
White cotton fabric having counts of 100 ends and 100 picks with the weight of 100 gm/m2 was selected for the study. The scouring of the fabric was done by 25 per cent soap solution at 100ºC for 1 hour. The dye used for the study was dichlorotriazinyl reactive dye. (Brill red-M). The paste of sodium alginate and guar gum were prepared separately by sprinkling the dry powder over the cold water under constant stirring and is allowed to stand for few hours to attain full swelling of the gum particles. The details of paste prepared in various concentrations are given in Table1.
After the preparation of the thickening paste, the scoured fabric was printed with the help of screen using following recipe (Kale, 1976).
30 Parts Procion colour
30 Parts Urea
230 Parts Warm Water (120ºF-140ºF)
650 Parts Thickening Agent
60 Parts Sodium Bicarbonate
1000 Parts
Note:
A 3-per cent concentration of Guar Gum will be the better alternative for large-scale printing of cotton in home furnishing industries, find Priyanka Kesarwani and Archana Singh.
Cotton is the world 's most used fibre. It is cool, soft, comfortable and the principal clothing fibre of the world. Its production is one of the major factors in the world 's prosperity and economic stability. In the textiles industry more than 78% of the printed goods are of cotton fabric and it has been used for the apparel purpose since centuries. It forms the background of the world textile trades. Printing on these fabric will produce a variety of designs attractively and economically.
The most commonly used thickeners for printing one cotton fabric is sodium alginate, but in view of its high price, partly substituting guar gum represents an acceptable alternative. Therefore, an attempt was made to print cotton fabric with sodium alginate and guar gum and compare its property and cost to the samples printed with sodium alginate.
Methodology
White cotton fabric having counts of 100 ends and 100 picks with the weight of 100 gm/m2 was selected for the study. The scouring of the fabric was done by 25 per cent soap solution at 100ºC for 1 hour. The dye used for the study was dichlorotriazinyl reactive dye. (Brill red-M). The paste of sodium alginate and guar gum were prepared separately by sprinkling the dry powder over the cold water under constant stirring and is allowed to stand for few hours to attain full swelling of the gum particles. The details of paste prepared in various concentrations are given in Table1.
After the preparation of the thickening paste, the scoured fabric was printed with the help of screen using following recipe (Kale, 1976).
30 Parts Procion colour
30 Parts Urea
230 Parts Warm Water (120ºF-140ºF)
650 Parts Thickening Agent
60 Parts Sodium Bicarbonate
1000 Parts
Note:
References: 1. Kale D G (1976): Principles of Cotton Printing, 2nd Ed, Mahajan Brother Publication. Ahmedabad. 128-139. 2. Narkar R K (1991): Perspective in Printing with Reactive Dyes, Colourage, Supplement of September Issue.38, 2 : 39-42. 3. Shenai V A (1999): Technology of Printing, 4th Ed, Mumbai Sevek Publication, 64-75 pp. 4. Sonja S I, Ostar T and Schneider R (2000): Printing Properties of a High Substituted Guar Gum and its Mixture with Alginate Ecology and Colour Science. Note: For detailed version of this article please refer the print version of The Indian Textile Journal August 2009 issue. Email: arch_knp@yahoo.co.in.