Process Flow Chart of Woven Dyeing

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Woven fabric is produced with interlacement of warp and weft yarn. The importance of woven fabrics increases constantly. Starting from traditional uses mainly in clothing applications, woven fabrics today are key materials for structural, electronic, telecommunications, medical, aerospace, and other technical application fields. The woven fabric dyeing process is different from the knit fabric dyeing process. Jigger dyeing machine is used in woven dyeing. Here flow chart of woven dyeing process is given below.

Flow Chart of Woven Dyeing

Flow Chart of Woven Dyeing
Steaming
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Washing
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Drying
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Heat setting
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Finishing (Pre-shrinkage)
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Finished fabric
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Package

Flow Chart & Checking Points Woven Solid Dyed Fabrics

Checking Points (Yarn): RKM/CSP, IPI, Neps

Checking Points (Fabric):

  1. Physical: Length, Width, Weight, Density, Composition, Tear Strength. As a result, grade A, B, C will be set for
  2. Appearance: Fabric defects including knots, holes, etc. Dyeing or printing or return purpose

Remarks: Better to use the same lot of greige fabric from the same supplier for one order.

Checking Points (Pre-treatment):

  1. Physical: pH, Whiteness, Resin%, Capillarity effect / TEGEWA –Drop Test (Absorbency), TEGEWA-Violet-blue scale (Degree of desire)
  2. Appearance: Fabric Defects
  3. Width (especially stretch fabric

* Stretch fabric needs test shrinkage after each step of Scouring, bleaching & Mercerization.

Mercerizing checking point: Barium number, Alkalinity, width, pH

Checking Points (Dyeing):

  1. Color shade checking
  2. Fabric defect
  3. pH value
  4. Colorfastness ( cut some bulk fabric to do production finish and then do physical testing . Once it is OK, the bulk fabric can continuously finish )
  5. And other offline tests as per risk assessment

Checking Points (Print) 

  1. Print effect compared to the approved sample
  2. Print defect
  3. Dry rubbing, formaldehyde
  4. Conductivity ( in case of pigment printing )

Steaming Risk: Floating color

Checking point (Washing) 

  1. Physical test: colorfastness
  2. Chemical test: pH value, formaldehyde

Checking point (Heat setting): Fabric width, shrinkage

Checking point (Finishing): Compare width approved sample for hand feel, brush, or other special treatment as per requirement. Tear strength ( peach finish ) in case of finishing like Wrinkle-free, tear strength, pH, smell

Checking point (Finished fabric): Final fabric inspection according to our fabric inspection guideline.

Checking point (Package): Label including order no, width, composition, color, bale no.

Author of this Article:
Rana Sohel 
 Executive Engineer 
 Sunman Textile Mills Ltd. Chittagong 
 Cell: +8801912-420118 
 Email: rsohel07tex@gmail.com

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