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  2. Textile printing - Wikipedia

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    In properly printed fabrics the colour is bonded with the fibre, so as to resist washing and friction. Textile printing is related to dyeing but in dyeing properly the whole fabric is uniformly covered with one colour, whereas in printing one or more colours are applied to it in certain parts only, and in sharply defined patterns. [1]

  3. Wrinkle-resistant fabric - Wikipedia

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    A durable press finish makes them dimensionally stable and crease-free. The finishing includes chemical finishing as well as mechanical finishing. [ 1 ] Wrinkle-resistant finishes were developed in the early 20th century as a way to deal with fabrics derived from cotton , rayon , and linen , which were found to wrinkle easily and retain the ...

  4. Acrylic fiber - Wikipedia

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    The polymer is formed by free-radical polymerization in aqueous suspension. The fiber is produced by dissolving the polymer in a solvent such as N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) or aqueous sodium thiocyanate, metering it through a multi-hole spinneret and coagulating the resultant filaments in an aqueous solution of the same solvent (wet spinning) or evaporating the solvent in a stream of heated ...

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