Testing & Quality Control

Lab Report (5)

Crocking Fastness & Absorbency Test

Submitted by

M. Abu Bakar Zafar 06-NTU-001

M. Afzaal Sadiq 06-NTU-077
Adnan Latif 06-NTU-103
Asad Jamil 06-NTU-107
Ali Asghar 06-NTU- 147

Submitted to

Sir. Qammar Zia

NATIONAL TEXTILE UNIVERSITY FAISALABAD

Lab Report (5a)
Title: To find wet and dry crocking fastness of provided fabric

Tasks

 To find dry rubbing fastness.

 To find wet rubbing fastness.

Equipment and material:

 Colored Fabric swatch.

 White fabric swatch.
 Distilled water.
 Crockometer.

Procedure

1. Colored sample was fixed on crockometer along warp direction with help of pins.
2. Dry cotton fabric was clamped on upper part of crockometer.
3. White cotton fabric was rubbed against colored sample.
4. Number of repetitions were 10.
5. Colored transfer to white fabric was rated.
6. Same method was repeated for wet rubbing fastness in which wet cotton fabric was
rubbed against colored sample.

Rating:

1 2 3 4 5

Poor Excellent
Results

 Dry rubbing fastness = 3 - 4

 Wet rubbing fastness = 2 - 3

Conlusion

 Given sample has good dry rubbing fastness and medium wet rubbing fastness.

Migration inhitor 10g/L 20g/L 30g/L

Wet Dry Wet Dry Wet dry

PRIMASOL FFAM 880 160 240 170 480 160

THERMACOL MIN 520 240 640 280 280 160

THERMACOL MP 480 180 280 160 480 160

SODIUM ALGINATE 360 160 560 260 580 240

GUAR GUM 340 160 480 240 400 200

CMC 580 160 440 180 320 240

Lab Report (5b)
Title: To check absorbency of a given sample.

Tasks

 To check absorbency of a fabric.

Equipment and material:

 100% cotton bleached fabric swatch.

 Distilled water.
 Stopwatch.

Procedure

1. Drop of a distilled water was dropped at a distance of 1cm.

2. Time taken by droplet to absorb was noted.
Result

Absorbency time of given sample = 2 sec