Calendering & application in Home Furnishing Presented By: Ahmad Hassan 2014-BT-TXT-03 Calendering in Home Furnishings 06/14/2022 1
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Calendering & application in Home Furnishing
Presented By: Ahmad Hassan 2014-BT-TXT-03
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Outline •What is Calendering?•Objects •Types of calendering•Application of calendering in Home
Furnishing ▫Domestics ▫Home furnishing ▫Floor Coverings
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Over view of calendering •Calendering
A calender is employed, usually to smooth, coat, or thin a material. With textiles, fabric is passed under rollers at high temperatures and pressures.
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Calendering in Home Furnishings Universal Calendering Machine
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Objects •To upgrade the fabric handle and to
impart a smooth silky touch to the fabric.•To compress the fabric and reduce its
thickness.•To reduce the Air Permeability of the
fabric by changing its porosity.•To impart different degree of Luster to the
fabric.•To reduce the Yarn Slippage.
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Types of calendering •Simple calendering •Felt calendering •Chasing calendaring•Swizzing •Embossed calendering •Moire calendering •Cire calendering •Friction calendering •Glazed calendering
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Simple calendering
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Felt calendering •Light weight cotton goods. This is also
employed for the finishing of knitted goods. Blanket drying is a special method of cylinder drying.
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Swizzing calendering• Before calendaring, softening and filling agents
should be added to produce luster.• All the bowls in this machine are rotated in the
same speed. The normal speed of the machine is 90 yards/ min.
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Chasing calendaring•A chasing calendar finish is obtained with
all the bowls of the calendaring machine running with the same surface speed, and the cotton fabric is passed through the nips of the calendar from several times, each layer of the cloth overlapping one another.
•Chasing gives a soften Linen appearance and a special soft handle to the fabric.
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Application in Home Furnishing •Home furnishings is the fashion product
category that includes textiles used to furnish and decorate the home, such as towels, linens, and bedding.
•Designers in the home furnishing industry create fashion through the use of colors, designs, and fabrics
•Consumers want the fabrics to be strong, durable, colorfast and stain resistant
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Three categories of home furnishing
Domestics:(bed linens, bathroom items, table & kitchen linens)Home Furnishings:(window treatments, upholstery furniture, throw
pillows)Floor Coverings:(carpeting, area rugs, throw rugs, non-fabric floor
tiles)
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1.Domestic…Bed linens (Swizzing C.)
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Bathroom items (Chasing C.)
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Table & Kitchen linens (Cire C.)• Ciré fabrics are coated with a wax or resin before
being calendered with heated rollers. • When thermoplastic fibres are used, the fiber surface
that comes in contact with the metal roll melts and flattens slightly and produce highly polished fabric.
• Cire is a taffeta, satin or tricot, silk or silk blends fabric.
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Window treatments (Simple C.)
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Calendering in Home Furnishings
Upholstery furniture (Embossed C.)• The embossed pattern is created by passing the fabric
between a heated embossing roller and a shaped paper roll.
• Damask effect can be produced but the effect is temporary. It lasts longer on mercerised fabric.
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Calendering in Home Furnishings
Throw pillows (Moire C.)• Moiré is developed using either a moiré embossing roller
or a high compression calendering of two layers of ribbed-base fabric in a single pass.
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Carpeting, area rugs(Floor Coverings)
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Non-fabric floor tiles (Moire C.)
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Curtain (Felt Calendering)
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Curtain (Glazed Calendering)• Glazed fabrics such as polished cottons or chintz fabrics
are created by saturating the fabric in a starch, wax or resin solution and allowing it to dry before calendering it.
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References•Wikipedia•Alibaba.com•Google scholar (papers 2004 finshing) •Damask effect - Google Search
www.google.com.pk
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