Screen-Printing of Cotton with Natural Pigments: Evaluation of Color and Fastness Properties of the Prints |
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| Authors: | Georgios Savvidis Vaggelis Karanikas Maria Zarkogianni Ioannis Eleftheriadis Nikolaos Nikolaidis |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Clothing Design and Technology, Technological Educational Institute of Central Macedonia, Kilkis, Greece;2. Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece |
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| Abstract: | Eleven natural pigments were selected for the production of environment-friendly cotton prints. Physicochemical properties pH, conductivity, viscosity of the printing pastes were measured in order to evaluate their stability and suitability for printing. Quality control standard tests and color measurements were carried out for all the prints with their fastness properties ranging from poor to very good in some cases. |
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| Keywords: | Color measurement fastness tests natural pigments printing |
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