Introduction
India consume about 33 million kg of wool intotal out of this 70 million kg are imported from Australia, New Zealand,Russia, Turkey and South America. They are use in apparel, blanket, knitwear,shawl and carpet industry. Indian apparel wool (33 million kg) is consumed inworsted fabric, knitwear and shawl industries. The rising power of Indianconsumers and their growing aspiration of good quality clothing would lead todouble the consumption of wool containing materials. However due to changingtrend in fashion, compromising quality in raw material and finishing and lackin technical knowledge witnessed a negative growth in wollen sector. Sincequality, design, innovative and value added products would therefore be theprime mover, it is the time to look at product development and marketdiversification seriously. Chemical processing helps to a great extent toimprove both functional and aesthetics values of textiles and hence the valueaddition through this process is far higher than other textile processes
Author is Lecturer, Dept of Apparel Technology, S.S.M. InstituteTextile Technology & Polytechnic College, Komarapalayam, Namakkal, T.N.
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