Effect of Fluorocarbon Based Water Repellent Finish on Cotton Handloom Fabrics

Abstract

In the present era of fashion awareness and
modernization, consumers are also familiar with the quality
for which they are paying. They want variety in clothing, so
there is a need for balance among different properties like
aesthetic, protective, and cultural for all types of clothing. In
the recent market, customers have a wide range of
fabrics/textiles available at different prices. Amongst a wide
variety of textiles, performance-based textiles are the fastest
growing area of the textile sector in the world's modern
textile market. It includes a wide range of new
developments in fibers, textile coating & technology. But on
the other side, our traditional handloom sector is facing
various problems like no new product range, variety is very
limited, finished products are very limited, and no technical
inputs are developed. In this study, an attempt has been
made to add a water-repellent feature to handloom fabrics
through current technology