Fabric crease recovery: an important requirement for the 100% cotton fabrics by chemical treatments -Technical review

摘要

The property of a fabric which enables it to recover from folding deformations known as a crease recovery. It is considered as one of the most important properties expected out of any textile material to make it easy-care when used for making apparels. As compared to all fibers cotton feels comfortable good against skin; it has a soft hand hence cotton is most commonly used for shirting fabric. Creasing is major problem on cotton fabrics because of its free hydroxyl groups in its structure so that it effects on appearance of the fabric. Therefore cotton fabric is treated with various chemicals to improve its crease recovery property.