Shrink-Resist Treatments of Wool Fabrics with Water-Soluble Acrylic Copolymers

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A series of water-soluble reactive acrylic copolymers containing 2-sulphoethylmethacrylate as a water-soluble and glycidyl methacrylate as a reactive monomer was synthesized and padded onto wool fabrics. By systematic planning of experiments, relationships between polymer composition, polymer film properties, and textile properties of treated fabrics could be shown. A good correlation was found between tensile strength of polymer films and shrink-resist effectiveness. No correlation was found between flexural rigidity of a treated serge fabric and the shrink-resistance of treated single- jersey fabric. No significant correlation was obtained between swelling of polymer films and shrink-resist effectiveness.

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