Different Types of Garment Wash: Techniques and Effects on Fabric

Different Types of Garment Wash: Techniques and Effects on Fabric

Noor Ahmed Raaz
Specialized in Apparel Manufacturing
Owner and Editor in Chief Textile Merchandising
Asst. Prof., Department of Textile Engineering
Atish Dipankar University of Science & Technology
Email: textilemerchandising1@gmail.com

 

Garment Wash:

The garment was is a new technology in the garment trade. Normally, wash means cleaning something. But in the garment trade, only cleaning of garments is not the garment wash. Garment wash is a technology that is applied to change or modify the outlook, appearance, comfortability, and design of garments. Garment washing is applied on solid dyed garments or solid printed fabric. Now, I would like to discuss the different types and objects of wash in the garment industry.

Types of Garment Wash:

In garment industry, there are mainly two types of washing processes for garment products. Those processes are wet washing process and the dry washing process. Here, also wet washing process is also divided into eight ways and the dry washing process is divided by five ways, according to the fabric quality and buyer requirements. But the most common and applied wash in garment is normal wash, which is also known as detergent wash. In the wet washing process, enzyme wash, stone wash and bleach wash are the most popular to the buyer and the manufacturer. On the other hand, Potassium per magnet spray and hand scraping is common for dry washing process in the garments industry.

A. Wet Washing Process

1. Normal wash or Detergent wash

2. Pigment wash

3. Enzyme wash

4. Stone wash

5. Bleach wash

6. Enzyme-stone wash

7. Bleach-stone wash

8. Acid wash

B. Dry Wash Process

1. Sand blasting

2. Whisking or wrinkling

3. Hand scrapping

4. Potassium per magnet spray (PP spraying)

5. Destroying

Objects of Garments Wash:

1. To remove dirt, dust and waste materials from garments.
2. To remove size materials from garments.
3. Garment wash shrinkage occurs, so accurate measurements can be found by customers.
4. The fading effect is varied here by the variation of the amount of detergent used, processing time and processing temperature.
5. To increase the brightness of garments.
6. To increase the smoothness of garments.
7. To change the appearance of garments.
8. To make directly wearable after purchase.
9. To make garments become soft and handy.
10. To remove harmful materials from garments.