Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The book describes care and maintenance procedures for textile materials. It focuses on types of laundering and dry-cleaning processes, chemicals and equipment. It details care labelling of garments, including electronic care labelling, related issues and instructions for different specialty textiles. Various factors such as pilling, abrasion, snagging, colour fading and dimensional change are discussed. It emphasizes care and maintenance of protective textiles used for protection from fire, bullets, cold weather, chemical and other types of protective clothing. Environmental impacts of care and maintenance procedures are described in including newer approaches of green cleaning.