Vol. 10, Special Issue 7 (2021)

Author(s):
Neha Chauhan, Nisha Arya, Parul Gill and Lalita Rani

Abstract:
In the recent years the new developments in specialty finishes sector are driven by consumers changing lifestyles, towards a more casual clothing look, with a greater preference for higher standard of aesthetics, comfort, health and safety, protection and easy-care performance. Most of the low and medium handloom fabrics are having some poor properties inherent to them, e.g., poor dyeing quality, poor light and washing fastness, unevenness of clothes due to severe yarn count variation and so on. The fabric made from khadi spinning system exhibits rough surface and low comfort properties. Present investigation was aimed to study the effect of commercial softening agents on cotton khadi fabric. Softening treatment was given in different combinations and the treated fabric was assessed in terms of hand feel and appearance.