Treating cloth to achieve an artificially aged appearance involves bleaching or dyeing, coating or printing, partly heat-fixing, and passing through a creasing machine before washing to produce uniformly-distributed creases

摘要

In a process for treating cloth to achieve an aged appearance by bleaching or dyeing, coating or printing, partly heat-fixing and then washing etc., the coated, partly-fixed cloth is treated in a creasing or folding machine before washing, so that the coating is modified at the folds to give a creased and aged appearance with uniformly distributed creases. A process for treating cloth to achieve an aged appearance by bleaching or dyeing the cloth, coating or printing either side of the material, partly heat-fixing the coating or print and then washing, drying and finishing. The process involves an additional step in which the coated, partly heat-fixed cloth (possibly made up into clothing) is introduced into a creasing or folding machine before washing, so as to enable the coating or imprint to change at the position of the creases produced in this operation and thus to obtain a creased and aged appearance with the creases uniformly distributed on the cloth. Independent claims are also included for (1) cloth treated by this process to produce a creased and aged appearance (2) clothing made from cloth treated by this process . TEXTILES AND PAPER - Preferred Process: The process involves yet another stage in which the creased cloth is treated in a hot calender after washing, drying and/or finishing, so as to produce a flat creased appearance rather than raised creases. POLYMERS - Preferred Coating Material: Optionally pigmented acrylic paste, vinylic paste or polyurethane paste.