Dyeing of wool in various forms

摘要

Wool is being dyed in India since long. It is an animal fibre, obtained as merino wool. The advantage Of use of wool is warmth, due to lower thermal conduction. It is used in suitings, safari, jackets, blankets, shawls, etc. The Australian merino wool Is supposed to be the best. In India, some parts of north India are producing wool fibre. The raw wool goes to the scouring range where all impurities are removed. It is available in various microns like 22,24,28,45,60,80 etc. the lesser the micron, the coarser is the fibre and vice versa. The clean wool goes to combing department and then worsted spinning department where wool sliver is made into tops. Then the tops is converted into worsted 100% woollen yarn or blended yarn, in various counts and blends like polyester/wool 70/30,54/45 etc known as terewool yarn, the count is 2/56, 2/40. In worsted blends, low pill polyester (2.4 denier) is used and wool tops used are 22.5 or 21.5 micron are used. Polyester/wool/viscose blends, fancy items like polyester/wool/ ramie or polyester/wool/flax. Wool tops used to come from Wool Combers of India situated in Mumbai. The pioneer company who started wool dyeing in India were Wellman, Mumbai, OCM, Amritsar, Digjam, Jamnagar, Jayashree, Rishra (W.B) Raymond (Thane and Chindwara ), Dinesh, Woollen Mills, Vadodara (Guj) and Raymond (Kenya). Later on Reliance, Ahmedabad, BPL, Bhilwara, Uniworth, Raipur, then Reid and Taylor, Mysore, all started dyeing wool fibre.