Summary
You should now be able to:
- Describe the pretreatment processes of different fibres for example:
- 100% cotton fabric: Singeing, desising, scouring, bleaching and mercerising.
- 100% silk fabric: Degumming and bleaching.
- 100% wool fabric: Carbonisation, scouring and bleaching.
- Describe the dying and printing of different fibres with different types of dye classes and under different conditions.
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Project
Contact
This resource was developed as part of an Erasmus+ project, funded with support from the European Commission under grant agreement 2016-1-SE01-KA203-22064.
The project was a collaboration between:
- The University of Borås, Sweden
- The University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland
- The University of Alcalá, Spain
- Digital Connections, Scotland
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- Technical resource development – The University of the Highlands and Islands Educational Development Unit - EDU (edu@uhi.ac.uk)
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