The disclosure discloses a method for anti-felting finishing of wool fabric with protease K, and belongs to the technical field of dyeing and finishing of wool fabric in the wool spinning industry. The purpose is to solve the problems that common protease anti-felting treatment has greater damage to the strength of wool and has a weak degradation effect on keratin in a scale layer, thereby achieving the purpose of optimizing the anti-felting finishing of wool fabrics with protease. A preferred process is: pure wool fabric is first pretreated with urea peroxide, CMC is blocked with chitosan oligosaccharides, and then the wool fabric is treated with protease K. The wool fabric treated by the method has obviously improved anti-felting property, and the damage to the strength of the fabric is reduced. The disclosure introduces protease K into the anti-felting finishing of wool for the first time. Through effective degradation of keratin in wool scales by the protease K, a good anti-felting effect of wool is achieved, and the protease K anti-felting treatment can replace the traditional chlorination anti-felting treatment.

A method for manufacturing a corn smut-based denim-type fabric comprising: performing a corn smut-based denim-type thread production process by; retting a plurality of dried corn smut husks ,rinsing the plurality of retted fibers, drying the plurality of rinsed retted fibers, separating the plurality of rinsed retted fibers from the husk, and spinning the plurality of separated rinsed and retted fibers into a plurality of corn smut-based denim-type threads.

This disclosure relates generally to the preparation of eco-friendly engineered fabric, and more particularly to terry fabric and variations thereof. In one embodiment, a terry fabric is comprised of a soluble fiber blend, blended with cotton fibers, where the soluble fibers are dissolved in a caustic or enzyme solution to create highly porous yarns.

The invention provides a method for producing a non-woven textile, comprising: i) applying a layer of a dispersion comprising dispersion medium and biobased first fibers (110) on a support, wherein the biobased first fibers (110) are fibers derived from a micro-organism cultured in a liquid culture medium, and wherein, prior to said applying, a plasticizer has been added to the dispersion; ii) depositing reinforcing second fibers (120) on the layer of the dispersion, wherein the reinforcing second fibers (120) are separate fibers which are not part of a fabric, and wherein the second fibers have an average length that is at least 10×the average length of the first fibers; and iii) eliminating the dispersion medium to form the non-woven textile (100) comprising a web of biobased first fibers (110). A non-woven textile, and seamless as well.

The present disclosure relates to a method for modifying polyester by a swelling agent combined with cutinase, belonging to the technical field of textile processing. According to the method, a phenol solution or an o-vanillin solution is used as the swelling agent to perform swelling treatment on the polyester, and combined with a Humicola insolens cutinase solution to perform hydrophilic modification on the polyester, which not only significantly improves the release amount of hydrolysates, but also reduces the fabric mass loss compared with the traditional chemical modification method.

An improved wet processing method for producing improved terry fabrics is provided. Woven fabric is treated based on enzymatic treatment process including de-sizing using optimized dosage of predetermined de-sizing ingredients, washed and bio-washed using optimized dosage of bio-washing ingredients. Enzyme treated fabric is pre-treated and subjected to hot air beat-up process comprising mechanically treating pre-treated fabric with optimized hot air beat-up parameters. Air is blown onto pre-treated fabric from both directions for predetermined duration and at predetermined frequency causing to and fro movement of fabric in tumbling chambers of tumbling machine resulting in an instantaneous impact produced on every pile loop of pre-treated fabric such that fibers rearrange in a path of least resistance to produce relaxed, open and aligned fiber structure in the fabric. Mechanically treated hot air-beaten up fabric is dyed and includes finishing the dyed fabric with softener and subjected to tumbling using optimized finishing parameters.

Bioactive coatings that include a base and a protein associated with the base for actively promoting the removal of organic stains are provided. In aspects, bioactive coatings that are stabilized against inactivation by weathering are provided including a base associated with a chemically modified enzyme, and, optionally a first polyoxyethylene present in the base and independent of the enzyme. The coatings are optionally overlayered onto a substrate to form an active coating facilitating the removal of organic stains or organic material from food, insects, or the environment.

A permeable reactive barrier having two or more layers of a geotextile fabric inoculated with a bioremediation microbe is provided. The permeable reactive barrier further includes two or more layers of coarse-grained geological material separating the two or more layers of geotextile fabric such that any pair of adjacent layers of geotextile fabric is separated by a layer of coarse-grained geological material. The permeable reactive barrier includes a perforated metal casing surrounding and containing the layers of coarse-grained geological materials and geotextile fabric.

A process for treatment of cellulosic material, for example, knitted or woven cotton fabric or yarn, comprises treating cellulosic material with a pectinase and a surfactant.

Disclosed is an environmentally friendly method that enables the pre-treatment and dyeing processes applied to cellulosic products used in the production of textile products such as towels, bathrobes to be carried out in a single bath with natural, biological preparations.