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Effect of anti pilling finish concentration and fabric type on pilling resistance of P/C fabrics
(University of Management and Technology, 2011) Muhammad Azeem Ashraf
The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of anti pilling finish concentration and fabric weave type on the pilling performance of P/C fabrics. Three types of bleached fabrics i.e. plain weave, satin weave and twill weave fabric samples were treated with anti pilling agent DICRYLAN BSRN. For finishing treatment three recipes were prepared using three concentrations of anti pilling finish i.e. 20 g/l, 40 g/l, 60 g/l. The process was accomplished by padding fabric through anti pilling finish solution to a wet pickup of about 60%. After padding all samples were dried at 120 °C temperature. After finishing treatment all samples were evaluated for pilling, whiteness and tensile strength using ISO and AATCC standard test methods. The results showed that by increasing concentration of anti pilling finish pilling rating of all fabric samples was improved. Further it was observed that anti pilling finish has no effect on whiteness of fabric samples while tensile strength of fabric samples was decreased very slightly after treatment with anti pilling finish agent. From the overall results it was concluded that anti pilling finish can be safely used for minimizing the problem of pilling because pilling resistance of P/C fabrics was improved significantly after the application of anti pilling finish.