Garments Dyeing | Different Advantages of Garment Dyeing
Though garment dyeing is a new technology for us it is actually using in European countries for the last 70 years. In the first, this type of technology was applied to silk and woolen garments but now it is applied on nylon, acrylic, and polyester and also extensively used in cotton garments. The popularity of garment dyeing is increasing in France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Canada, North America, Turkey, Israel, South Africa, Japan, the USA, and the UK, etc. As its importance, this article has presented a discussion about garments dyeing with its various advantages.
What is Garment Dyeing?
Generally, we dye fiber, yarn, or fabric. After that, the dyed and finished fabric is used for making the garments. In the case of garments dyeing, garments are made from grey fabric and then the garments are dyed in the required color and shade. There are different types of garments which are dyed in garments dyeing technology such as jeans item, skirt, socks, shirt, sweater, panty-hose, etc.
Advantages of Garment Dyeing:
The popularity of garments dyeing is increasing day by day all over the world. There are so many advantages of garments dyeing over fabric dyeing which are mentioned below:
- It needs comparatively lower production costs for any items of any color and shade.
- It requires comparatively less time to produce and supply apparel.
- In garment dyeing, there is no possibility of shade variation within the garments.
- Here, within less time small lots of different items could be produced at a lower cost.
- In the case of garments dyeing, old garments could be redyed. Hence, it looks likes new garments.
- Here, de-sizing, scouring, bleaching, dyeing, and finishing have been done in the same machine.
- It needs comparatively lower capital investment costs to set-up the dyeing of a garment project.
- Here, a lower requirement ratio in garments dyeing requires lower water, steam, and chemical consumption as a result of lower garments dyeing cost.
- In fabric cutting, approximately 10-15% of the fabric is cut out as fabric wastage. If this 10-15% fabric is cut out as grey fabric rather than colored fabric then wastage cost will be saved.
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