The Short Life of Neon-Cotton
This blog is written by a member of our expert blogging community and expresses that expert’s views alone. Neon colors have been in trend for a while and they are found on the palettes of many of our...
View ArticleRetailer/Brand Interest in Fade Resist Performance of Cotton Garments
There is currently interest from retailers/brands in color retention/fade resist performance to multiple wash/wear cycles on cotton garments. The problem of color fade of cotton garments started when...
View ArticleColor Communication – Step 3: Realizing the Color Inspiration in the Supply...
In the last blog post, we established that setting “a color standard” for a color inspiration, was a key step to initiating a sustainable communication process in the supply chain. Furthermore, we...
View ArticleSustainable Color Communication – Step 4: Securing the Color Inspiration...
In order to secure that the color inspiration that you selected in the early stages of color development reaches the consumer, you want to avoid the three common failures in your supply chain. 1. Wrong...
View ArticleDo You Know What’s on Your Garments?
Following the publication by Greenpeace of their Dirty Laundry Reports many brands and retailers are asking themselves the question: Do we really know what is on our garments? Of the six companies who...
View ArticleBest Practice to manage Color (In)Constancy
Color (In)Constancy Color (In)Constancy is the term related to a single color which changes shade when viewed in different light sources. It should not be confused with Metamerism which is the term...
View ArticleBest Practice: Color Measurement
1. Conditioning Samples should be fully conditioned, preferably to the same temperature and humidity as the standard they are being compared to. ASTM standard conditions are 70 F +/-2 and...
View ArticleDyStar at the Frankfurt International Motor Show
Célio H. Missaka- The Frankfurt International Motor Show or Frankfurt Auto Show, in German known as the Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung (IAA – International Automobile Exhibition), is the world’s...
View ArticleBest Available Technologies for Reducing Resources’ Demand: Pre-treatment &...
Pre-treatment & Dyeing with Reactive Dyes-Ulrich Hanxleden As a mosaic starts with a first stone, textile finishing starts with Pre-treatment A mosaic is the assembly of separate tiny stones or...
View ArticleBest Available Technologies for Reducing Resources’ Demand: Pre-treatment &...
Earlier, we had introduced the pre-treatment process on cotton and the water and energy consumption when using traditional scouring methods versus a much more efficient enzymatic bio-scouring. In this...
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