Textile bleaching involves applying oxidative or reductive chemicals to fabrics to remove unwanted additives applied during manufacturing, make the fabrics softer and whiter. The type of bleach used depends on whether the fabric is natural or synthetic. After bleaching, optical brighteners are added to enhance whiteness and make dyeing easier. Bleaching aims to clean fibers, remove natural color, soften fabrics, increase whiteness and prepare fabrics for dyeing or printing.
Textile bleaching involves applying oxidative or reductive chemicals to fabrics to remove unwanted additives applied during manufacturing, make the fabrics softer and whiter. The type of bleach used depends on whether the fabric is natural or synthetic. After bleaching, optical brighteners are added to enhance whiteness and make dyeing easier. Bleaching aims to clean fibers, remove natural color, soften fabrics, increase whiteness and prepare fabrics for dyeing or printing.
Textile bleaching involves applying oxidative or reductive chemicals to fabrics to remove unwanted additives applied during manufacturing, make the fabrics softer and whiter. The type of bleach used depends on whether the fabric is natural or synthetic. After bleaching, optical brighteners are added to enhance whiteness and make dyeing easier. Bleaching aims to clean fibers, remove natural color, soften fabrics, increase whiteness and prepare fabrics for dyeing or printing.
Textile bleaching involves applying oxidative or reductive chemicals to fabrics to remove unwanted additives applied during manufacturing, make the fabrics softer and whiter. The type of bleach used depends on whether the fabric is natural or synthetic. After bleaching, optical brighteners are added to enhance whiteness and make dyeing easier. Bleaching aims to clean fibers, remove natural color, soften fabrics, increase whiteness and prepare fabrics for dyeing or printing.
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BLEACHING
Textile bleaching is the act of taking Greige or natural textiles and applying either oxidative or reductive bleach to the material before they are processed.
This is done for several reasons, such as:
Removing pesticides and fungicides
Making the textile softer and Whiter
Depending on whether the textile is synthetic or natural, one of two bleach types are added to the material.
After textile bleaching, optical whiteners are added to enhance the white colour and to make the material easier to dye.
Bleaching Process
The process is to make the goods whiter than before
This will help the goods to absorb more dyes and chemical Make the dye on the good brighter. For cotton fabrics, hydrogen peroxide in alkaline solution at boil is the most popular bleaching agent
When a textile is grown or made, it encounters many add-ons that helps to keep off insects or fungus from ruining the material and makes the textile easier to construct.
A few of these additives are fungicides, pesticides, worm killers and lubricants
While these add-ons are considered necessary during the growing or construction phase, they tend to be poisonous and can be harmful to consumers
Textile bleaching not only removes the poison but also makes the textile white and easier to dye.
Aim of bleaching
Cleaning the fiber by removing the seed coat
Destroying the natural colour Softening the Greige fabric Making it more comfortable to wear Increasing the degree of whiteness To make the goods suitable for dyeing and printing with pale or bright shade
Bleaching Agent
A bleaching agent is a substance that can whiten or decolorize other substance. Bleaching agents essentially destroy chromophore (there by removing g the colour),via the oxidation or reduction of these absorbing groups. Thus, bleaching can be classified as either oxidizing agents or reducing agents
Types of Bleaching Agents
a. Oxidative Bleaching Agents
b. Reductive Bleaching Agents c. Enzymatic Bleaching Agents
Natural fiber like cotton, ramie, jute, wool, bamboo are all generally bleached with oxidative methods Examples of oxidative bleaches are: sodium hypochlorite, sodium chlorite or hydrogen peroxide. It strips the textile of the additives and destroys chromophore, the molecular elements that adds colour to the textile. Oxidative bleach pushes oxygen into the textile to perform this task. Synthetic materials, such as polyamides, polyacetate and polyacrylic are treated with reducing bleach. Sodium hydrosulphite is powerful reducing bleach. In this method, the reductive bleach reduces the amount of oxygen in the textile and bleaches the fabric
After bleaching, optical whiteners are added to the material
Much like bleach, this makes the textile whiter This step is mainly concerned with eradicating any colour from the natural fiber. So it can be sold as a white fabric or go on to dyeing
Action of Optical Brightening Agent
The process is to add special dyestuff into textile to make them brighter when looking at them in black-light, light bulb or natural sunlight. These dyestuffs are colorless but they use the UV light to excite these dye particles These excited particles in turn will reflect the compliment of yellow light i.e. blue, violet, etc. at the wavelength that human can see. There by the goods look brighter and whiter.
