High-quality home textiles for curtains, armchairs and sofas should not only look decorative, they also have to be hard-wearing and flameproof. Textiles usually get flame-retardant by a coating with special chemicals or saline solutions....

Natural fibres present important advantages such as low density, appropriate stiffness and mechanical properties and high disposability and renewability. Moreover, they are recyclable and biodegradable. There has been lot of research on use of natural fibres in reinforcements...

India is one of the developing industrialist countries in the world. Due to the increase in the number of industries there is considerable increase in the amount of industrial waste. The waste from textile industry is also increasing at alarming rates which are hazardous to the environment. As a part of global warming, recycling of products is much focused...

After encouraging performances through the year 2007, the analysis of economic trends of the T&C industry in 2008 shows a notorious setback which deepened since the autumn following the financial and economic crises. Globally, the textile sector was more affected by the decline in the domestic & external demand...

Greasy wool contains substantial amounts of contaminants. Before it can be used as a textile fibre these contaminants must be removed by a scouring (washing) process. There are four principal issues associated with wool scouring...

In the global textile and clothing market, China has been a major player for almost two decades. Since becoming a member of the World Trade Organization, China's textile and clothing manufacturing and sales have increased dramatically, largely due to increased business from the West...