Textile Dyeing Processes And Techniques

What Is Textile Dyeing?

Textile dyeing is the procedure where by the color is applied to a textile (fabric, yarn, fiber, or even cloth). Depending on the needs, textile makers could carry out dyeing in any manufacturing phase using dye tubes and various methods.

Phases Of Dyeing

Fiber Phase Method

In this process, textile makers dye textiles at the fiber phase. Either the dyestuff is blended in the chemical solution to produce synthetic fibers, or the dyeing of the fibers is done in the dyebath.

Yarn Phase Method

In this process, the yarns spun utilizing fibers are engrossed inside the dyebath, entirely and partially. This is done before using polyester spun core yarns to construct clothes. This is mainly utilized to develop different designs in the cloth like stripes, tweed, plaid, and checks.

Fabric Phase Method

In this method, textile makers apply the color to the cloth after making it. The fabric is flooded in the dyebath to attain the desired color.

Garment Stage Process 

In this process, textile makers dye the completed garment in the dyebath to attain the desired color.

What Are The Dyeing Techniques?

There are several ways that textile makers can employ to dye textiles. This blog discusses them below:

Solution Dyeing

As its name suggests, textile makers add the dyestuff to the artificial fiber’s chemical solution. Whenever the fiber strand appears from the spinnerette, the strand seems colored. A benefit of using this technique is that the colorfastness quality of the textile would be excellent.

Stock Dyeing

The loose fibers are engrossed in the dyebath before spinning, carding, combing and blending procedures take place. The benefits of using this technique are as follows

•Excellent color fastness quality of the textile

•This enables the development of yarn of many colors to provide a mélange appearance to the cloth

•Consistent distribution of the dyestuff

Techniques For The Yarn Phase

Skein/Hank Dyeing

The yarns are loosely arranged in a skein or hank form over a ring inside a huge container. Then, this is engrossed in the dyebath to dye the yarn in the wanted colors. This suits yarns that could not be compressed or stretched like wool.

Package Dyeing

In this technique, textile makers weave yarn on yarn carriers in yarn packages inside the spinning phase. The yarn packages can be in the form of tubes, cheeses, and cones. Then, they are arranged on perforated frames. Textile manufacturers then penetrate the dye solution through the yarn packages in constant movement to attain the wanted color.

Beam Dyeing (Yarns)

In beam dyeing, textile makers weave warp yarns on cylindrical beams, which are put in equipment. They make the dyebath run from the epicenter to the outside and in an outside-to-epicenter motion to attain the color’s desired depth.

Techniques For The Fabric Phase

Winch/Beck dyeing

Textile makers stitch fabric ends together to manufacture a continuous part. Then, they immerse the fabric into a dye liquor in a loose condition and rotate it by using a roller inside the dye liquor. In this situation, the dye is stationary while the cloth moves.

Jet Dyeing

Textile manufacturers use this technique to dye at the fabric phase. This cloth is put in the form of a rope in a tube-like container. Pressure jets inside the container penetrate the dye liquor through the cloth.

Jig Dyeing

In this technique, a couple of rollers in equipment known as jigger or jig dyeing machine hold the cloth in an open-width form. The fabric is unwound from a single side, engrossed into the dyebath, and then weaved onto another side. Textile makers keep repeating this action unless they obtain the wanted color on the fabric.

Pad Dyeing

In this technique, the pad dyeing equipment weaves fabric on rollers in an open-width form. This cloth in its extensive length, is then passed through a trough which comprises dye liquor and moves along the roller. It is a constant procedure, and the excessive dye is squeezed from the fabric.

Beam Dyeing (Fabric)

Just like in the staple polyester yarn phase dyeing process, the cloth is wound on huge cylindrical beams. Then, the dye liquor is pushed through those beams to color the cloth.

Technique For The Garment Phase

Paddle Dyeing 

Textile makers use this technique after constructing the garment. They use this technique by immersing garments in a dye solution put in a big container found inside the paddle dyeing equipment. The clothes are slackly packaged and a motor-driven paddle does the circulation of the dye solution inside the container to make the garments colored. Textile makers can also utilize this technique to dye individual parts of the cloth. In that situation, the dyeing will take place before making the fabric.