Pretreatment of cotton to enhance its dyeability;Part 2
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Burkinshaw *, A
GotsopoulosSpecialtyChemical Group, Department of Colour Chemistry, The University, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UKReceived 9 December 1998; accepted 4 January 1999AbstractThree commercial cationic ®xing agents, namely Matexil FC-PN (ICI), Matexil FC-ER (ICI) and Sol®x E (Ciba),originally marketed as aftertreating agents for direct dyes, were used as pretreatments for cotton modi®cation
Pre-treated cotton was dyed with four direct dyes and the eect of pretreatment on the colour strength as well as the washand the light fastness of the dyeings were investigated
The dyeings were also aftertreated with the same agents used forthe pretreatment, and their wash fastness properties were compared with those of the afte