Impact of Washing Silk on its Physical Properties

摘要

Silk is known as 'Queen of textiles' and is considered as precious in India. Mulberry silk is more used as compare to other silk. Mulberry silk fabric becomes soft, flexible and less stiff after washing. The washing practices resulted in the removal of sericin and other impurities present on the surface of the fabric resulting to smoothness on the fabric surface. Paper describes the effect of different wet and cleaning agents on fabric properties such as crease recovery, drape, moisture regain, shrinkage, abrasion resistance, tearing strength and tensile strength. It was found that fabric properties decreased after repeated cleaning with different wet and dry cleaning agents.