Everything the Light Touches Can Fade

Everything the Light Touches Can Fade By Carrie Gray   The future is as bright as the sun!  This summer, people will be putting up awnings at their campsite, pitching the game day tent with their favorite team’s colors, and relaxing on patio furniture.   Textiles encounter a variety of light that can cause color change.   AATCC is here to help with a variety of test methods focused on colorfastness to light, including TM16.1 Colorfastness to Light: Outdoor, TM16.2 Colorfastness to Light: Carbon-Arc, TM16.3 Colorfastness to Light: Xenon-Arc, and TM125 Colorfastness to Perspiration and Light.   AATCC TM125 Colorfastness to Perspiration and Light is the best of both worlds. Specimens are immersed in a perspiration test solution for a specified time, then immediately exposed to light. The light apparatus in this test method is also described in TM16.3 Colorfastness to Light: Xenon-Arc.   Testing materials such as the Blue Wool used in 16.3 can be purchased on the AATCC online store. http://aatcc.org/products/