TREATMENT OF WOOL/ANIMAL FIBRE WITH A PLASMA TREATMENT FOLLOWED BY PROTEOLYTIC ENZYME TREATMENT

摘要

method of producing wool or animal hair material with improved properties such as shrink-proofed (anti-felting tendency), increased whiteness, improved dyeability, increased softness and/or reduced pilling tendency. The method comprising the steps of treating wool, wool fibres or animal hair material in a process selected from the group consisting of plasma treatment processes or the Delhey process, and subjecting the wool or animal hair material to a treatment with a proteolytic enzyme (a protease), preferably a serine protease, more preferably a subtilisin, in an amount effective for improving the properties of the wool or hair products.