Silk Yarn Processing: An Industrial Review

Silk is the queen of all the fibres and is well known for its fashionable lusture, softer handle and aesthetic value. The fibre is mostly used for producing elegant sarees with intricate designs by the fashion and textile designer expert. Here an attempt has been made to provide comprehensive review covering most of the industrial technical aspects of chemical processing of silk hanks. Variety of silk yarns used in the industry is written. Besides degumming and bleaching process of different quality silk hanks are mentioned in detail. With the addition of it different practical problems arised in the silk degumming also have been discussed. Along with all the mentioned problems probable solutions are also discussed and reported. Dyeing process and dyestuffs used for dyeing of silk hanks are elaborately reported with criticality and special properties of particular dyes. At the end of the paper practical problems of industrial silk dyeing are discussed with probable technical and managerial remedies.