Textile processing
Textile Processing is one of the important industry related with Textile manufacturing operations. This industry has a long history that begins with "Indigo dyeing" a natural color, derived from a plant.
Once the process of coloring textiles was considered as an art. According to ones creativity and imagination on those days numerous techniques were evloved in coloring different materials such as cotton, bamboo, jute, earthern-ware and even mortar walls. Slowly this technique was evolved in to a science and so many artificial coloring matters called 'dyestuffs' had started coming in to existence.
This evolution of coloring matters in to synthetic dyestuff and the application techniques on various textile materials are all put together is called 'Textile Processing'.
A simple guide to such processing operations that covers right from preparation of fabric to the final finishing is [http;//www.thesmarttime.com/]. This site covers textile bleaching methods, textile fabric dyeing techniques, textile finishing methods and deals with textile related developments and textile news etc.
There are so many useful articles, methods, hints and suggestions are available in this website.
You can see so many external links related to this topic such as Apparel manufacturing, Knitwear manufacturing, Home textiles, Garment industry, technical textiles, eco textiles and so on.
It even has links and useful articles on pollution and environmental hazards that has arised due to the growth of this industry.