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DYES & DYEING (page 2 of 5) 1 2 3 4 5
• Coloring Your Fabric—Without Dyes! by J. Michael Quante (AATCC News, February 2009). Dyeing is only one way of bringing color to textiles. Advances in nanotechnology offer new alternatives to the traditional dyeing process with an emphasis on physical properties that bring out the color of the fabric without using dyes.
• Color Yes, Toxicity No: Systematic Approaches to Meeting this Challenge by Harold S. Freeman (AATCC Review, December 2004). Studies pertaining to the design of nontoxic synthetic dyes are summarized.
• Commercial and Environmental Challenges in Continuous Dyeing with Fiber Reactive Dyes by R. F. Hyde, G. Thompson, and K. A. Stanley (Textile Chemist & Colorist, October 1996). Developments in machinery, dye chemistry, and a review of processing techniques and practices offer solutions to problems facing the continuous dyeing industry.
• Dye Producers Band Together Worldwide to Monitor Their Environmental Fate by Eric A. Clarke (Textile Chemist & Colorist, March 1983). Dye producers around the world are sharing their scientific and technical resources to solve ecological and toxicological problems.
• Dyeing Blended Fabrics--The Ultimate Compromise? by James Park, John Shore (Textile Chemist and Colorist & American Dyestuff Reporter, January 2000). The difficulties encountered in dyeing blended fabrics together with the necessary compromises are discussed.
• Dyeing Without Cancer by L. Aubrey Goodson Jr. (Textile Chemist & Colorist, August 1977). What can the textile industry do about "those regulatory tributaries now combining into a mainstream of governmental action"?
• Dyes and Today’s Regulatory Climate by R. H. Horning (Textile Chemist & Colorist, January 1986). New rules which invade all of the technical areas of manufacture that may impact health or the environment continue to appear. Each year requires greater expenditure for compliance.