Many countries of the world are undergoing grave environmental troubles and the reason is their fast growing industry. This is a very common situation where industrial units of textile, dyeing, leather tanning, paper and pulp procession, sugar production are flourishing in huge masses and discharging pollution....

Ultraviolet UVA and UVB rays, the two major wavelengths of sun enter in to skin through most of the lightweight apparel we wear and generate free radicals (corrosive molecules) that affect DNA cell function. UVA, called the “aging ray” generates 95 percent of UV light and UVB, the “burning ray” has a shorter wavelength but is stronger than UVA radiation...

The manufacturing of flame retardant textiles is even now a difficult issue, though many decades of research and studies practiced in its development. During 1960s and 1970s a period of slow progress shown and there was a primitive promise and improvement explained in flame retardant studies....

If you ever go to buy household things without a shopping list, you are bound to forget certain items or you are sure to buy more than the targeted products; same thing happens when you kick off sewing garment. It has been discovered that a tailor, who mulls over and designs a garment, complete with colour sketches and smart thinking as well as a list of ideas that he will want, he would require less money and time for manufacturing the garment than if he simply banks on fate....

Microfiber is a variety of polyester that has exclusive and advantageous properties compared to other traditional fibers.Microfibers are heavily formed, polyester and polyamide fibers and are one hundred times finer than human hair. The diameter of microfibers is one-quarter of fine wool, one-third of the cotton, half of a fine silk fiber and the density of the material consent it to grip six to eight times of its weight in water....

Any unwanted modification in the properties of a material brought about by the essential actions of organisms is called Bio-deterioration. Present article is concerned with the degeneration of textile materials produced by microorganisms like fungi and bacteria, and the solutions to avert or reduce their effects....