Alginate is an important polysaccharide used widely in the food, textile, printing and pharmaceutical industries for its viscosifying, and gelling properties. All commercially produced alginates are isolated from farmed brown seaweeds. These algal alginates suffer from heterogeneity in composition and material properties. Here, we will discuss alginates produced by bacteria; the molecular mecha...

Cathy Treadaway is the Research Assistant (Textiles) at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff, U.K. and is currently investigating the impact of digital imaging on textile practice for a PhD research project. Trained as a surface pattern and textile designer she has worked digitally since 1982 and was an early exponent of computer-aided surface pattern and textile design within UK art educa...

The process of product development in the textile and apparel industry usually needs several partners. These partners have to share and to communicate their ideas in a more and more efficient and time saving way. The internet technologies offer new fields for the application of a prototype (search engine) in a TRIAL project, called CREATIV[1]. The test bed is the so-called design network includ...

A text-book on this subject has been long overdue and the authors are to be congratulated on the production of such an interesting and readable volume which contains much important work hitherto accessible to the student only in scattered writings. The book includes admirable descriptions of modern industrial processes, viz., mining, iron and steel working, textile industries, potteries and gla...

In this paper, a textile inspection system for quality control of the printing process is presented. The method is based on acquiring an initial, super− vised template image and registering each test image against the template through a novel elastic registration procedure. Then, the test and template images can be compared using a classical feature−based matching method. No restriction is plac...

Sanganer town, district Jaipur (Rajasthan, India) is famous worldwide for its hand block dyeing and textile printing industries. These industries use a variety of chemicals and dyes during processing and finishing of raw materials. Most of the textile dyes used by these industries have not been evaluated for their impact on health and the environment. The workers in these industries are exposed...

Automated visual inspection of industrial textile printing has the potential to increase the overall print quality. In this article, we investigate whether all printed colors can be detected by CCD cameras and determine the color measurement precision.Occurring deviations in color values of homogenouesly colored textile patches are explained by the dichromatic reflection model. An extra clue is...

The focus of this paper is to make a comparison between five different types of conductive, heatable samples. These textile samples have been produced according to the five most important implementation techniques such as knitting, weaving, embroidery, printing and nonwoven padding. The idea is to identify a conductive option best suitable for a heating application. This study was divided into ...

BACKGROUND The longer term respiratory effects of massive inhalational exposure of textile printing sprayers to Acramin (the "Ardystil syndrome") are not well established. METHODS A 12 month follow up of 27 heavily exposed textile sprayers was performed. RESULTS Twenty one patients experienced cough, 18 dyspnoea, and 17 nose bleeding at initial exposure, with histological evidence of organi...

We fabricate a wearable blood leakage sensor on a cotton textile by combining two newly developed techniques. First, we employ a screen-offset printing technique that avoids blurring, short circuiting between adjacent conductive patterns, and electrode fracturing to form an interdigitated electrode structure for the sensor on a textile. Furthermore, we develop a scheme to distinguish blood from...