Provided is a method for dyeing a polymer material with an aqueous pigment composition containing at least one pigment dispersed therein, wherein the polymer material is a blend including a first polymer composition and a second polymer composition which is compatible with the first polymer composition, which second polymer composition includes a binding agent for the at least one pigment. The method includes the steps of heating the polymer material to an activation temperature below the softening temperature of the polymer material, contacting the polymer material with the aqueous pigment composition at a contact temperature for a period of time sufficient to form a pigmented polymer material, subjecting the pigmented polymer material to a fixation step to fixate the at least one pigment therein by cooling the pigmented polymer material to a fixation temperature which is lower than the temperature at which contacting of the polymer material with the aqueous pigment composition is carried out.

An inkjet ink composition for textile printing comprising a white pigment, a pigment dispersant, a polyurethane-based binder, a nano-sized layered silicate and an aqueous liquid vehicle. Also described herein is a fluid set comprising said ink and a fixer composition including a cationic polymer and a fixer vehicle; as well as the textile printing method using it.

A method for manufacturing a fabric with an intelligently-designed digitally-printed pattern with energy saving effect is disclosed. The method includes S1 knitting: combining cotton yarn, bamboo fiber yarn, and mulberry silk yarn to form a double strand yarn, and knitting the double strand yarn into a silk-cotton plain knitted single-sided fabric; S2 singeing: subjecting the fabric obtained in step S1 to a double-sided singeing; S3 mercerizing: mercerizing the fabric obtained in step S2 by utilizing a knitting mercerizing machine; S4 boiling: subjecting the mercerized fabric obtained in step S3 to a neutralizing processing, a bleaching processing, a deoxidating processing, and a whitening processing in sequence; S5 setting a base color: setting the base color of the fabric obtained in step S4; S6 printing: subjecting the fabric obtained in step S5 to a sizing and setting treatment, a pattern design treatment, a digital printing, a steaming treatment, and a water washing treatment; S7 soft setting: subjecting the fabric obtained in step S6 to a soft setting by utilizing a setting machine; S8 decating treatment: subjecting the fabric obtained in step S7 to a decating treatment; and S9 pre-shrinking treatment: pre-shrinking the fabric obtained in S8 by utilizing a pre-shrinking machine.

The present invention relates to the use of indigo derivatives for dyeing synthetic textiles to a process for dyeing synthetic textiles and to dyed textiles and articles containing them. The invention also relates to novel indigo derivatives per se and to a process for the preparation thereof.

The present invention relates to an aqueous paste composition for textile coating, comprising: 1-60 parts by weight of at least one material having tensile modulus of at least 2000 MPa, 1-24 parts by weight of at least one antistatic agent, 16-60 parts by weight of at least one binder, and 50-200 parts by weight of water. The invention also relates to a process for producing a coated fabric, to a coated fabric as obtainable trough said process, and to a garment comprising it.

Examples relate to methods to print a garment and sublimation devices. A sublimation device comprises a heating system to heat an air flow and a holder to receive a garment. The holder comprises an outer surface to contact an inner side of the garment opposite to an outer side of the garment in which a print agent is to be deposited and an opening on the outer surface in fluid communication with the heated air flow.

An inkjet ink includes an aqueous medium, composite particles, and a cross-linking agent. The composite particles are emulsified particles of a composite of a polyester resin and a disperse dye. The polyester resin includes at least one repeating unit derived from a polyhydric alcohol and at least one repeating unit derived from a polybasic carboxylic acid. The polyester resin is non-crystalline. The polyester resin has a glass transition point of at least 45° C. and no higher than 75° C. The polyester resin has an acid value of at least 10 mgKOH/g and no greater than 70 mgKOH/g. The polyester resin has a hydroxyl value of at least 20 mgKOH/g and no greater than 60 mgKOH/g. The cross-linking agent includes a blocked isocyanate.

A fluid set can include an ink composition having an acidic pH and a crosslinker composition having a basic pH from pH 8 to pH 10. The ink composition can include from 60 wt % to 90 wt % water, from 5 wt % to 30 wt % organic co-solvent, from 1 wt % to 6 wt % pigment, a sulfonated dispersant, and an acrylic polymer binder. The crosslinker composition can include from 70 wt % to 95 wt % water, from 1 wt % to 25 wt % organic co-solvent, and from 0.5 wt % to 5 wt % polycarbodiimide.

A method for coloring a carbon nanotube (CNT) product is provided, including placing a CNT product in an electric circuit to ground the product, charging a plurality of pigment molecules with an opposite charge from the CNT product, applying a coating of the charged pigment molecules to a surface of the CNT product, and exposing the coating to a temperature sufficient to cure the coating, while allowing the coating to form a substantially conformal film on the surface of the CNT product.

A dye printing method and an ink capable of performing printing on more types of media than in the related art are shown. A dye printing method using ink 10 containing a solvent 11, and particles of a thermoplastic resin dispersed in the solvent 11 and containing a dye 13 is characterized by including a printing process of performing a printing on a medium 20 with the ink 10, a particle fixing process of fixing the particles 12 to the medium 20 by drying the solvent 11 of the ink 10 ejected to the medium 20 by the printing process, and a resin fixing process of fixing the thermoplastic resin to the medium 20 by heating the particles 12 fixed to the medium 20 by the particle fixing process, at least at a glass-transition temperature or higher.