Bleaching of cotton weft knitted fabrics

Since knitting yams are unsized and usually combed to reduce seed and trash content , there is normally any need for treatment prior to bleaching. The knitting lubricants which replace the size on woven fabrics are usually self scouring, but sometimes from their very volume may create problems with foam and stains in wet processing or in the knitting machine which need to be treated with solvent containing auxiliaries. 

Steeve, The Chemical Process Industries, Second Edn., McGraw Hill Book Co., New York, 1956. p 325. 

Levene, Handbook of Fibre Science and Technology, Vol 1, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1983, p 305. 

Bereck, 2nd. Int. Symp. on Specialty Animal Fibres, Aachen, 1989. 

Manner, J. M. Cardamone, Bao Guo ping and F. Casado, Textile Chem. Color., 27 (Sept 1993) 75. 

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