British Textile Institute

Hibbert was honored by election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and he was a member (or Fellow) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science American Chemical Society (Chairman, New Haven Section, 1920, and Chairman, Division of Cellulose Chemistry, 1920-1922) American Pulp and Paper Association Canadian Chemical Association Canadian Pulp and Paper Association Deutsche chemische Gesell-schaft Royal Institute of Chemistry (London) The Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D. C.) Society of Chemical Industry (Chairman, Montreal Section, 1930) Society of the Sigma Xi Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry and the Textile Institute (England). In addition, he served on the editorial board of Cellulosechemie for several years. He was author or co-author of 253 scientific papers and 50 patents (British, Canadian, and U. S.). 

Organizations such as the Association of American Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC) and the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) in the USA, the British Standards Institute in the United Kingdom, the Deutsches Institut fur Normung (DIN) in Germany and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) headquartered in Switzerland publish test methods that can be used to evaluate the performance of chemical finishes. 

International Wool Textile Organisation (2) American Society for Testing and Materials (3) British Standards Institution ... 

In 1923, in the early days of the British Cotton Industry Research Association, seven reviews of literature pertaining to cotton were published in the Transactions section of the Joiirnal of the Textile Institute (94)-... 

Textile Institute and British Cotton, Linen, Silk, and Wool Research Associations. 

British Standards Institution, London, Methods of Test for Textiles, B. S. Hand-... 

Indexes and Abstracts. The literature searcher must learn to use the periodical indexes. Chemical Abstracts (33), British Abstracts (32), and the journals that regularly publish abstracts of articles appearing in other journals. Often material needed can be found only in the most recent journal. The Engineering Index (2 2) and the Industrial Arts Index (22) are excellent sources for current literature. The American Dyestuff Reporter 29) the Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists 35, The Journal of the Textile Institute (33), the Textile Research Journal 39, and the Textile Technology Digest 4-0, publish abstracts and contain patent literature. 

An interesting study was undertaken in 1994 by the British Textile Technology Group (BTTG) into the influence of environmental conditions on the testing of textile materials, and it was published in 1995 by the British Standards Institution as PD 6577. It will, we hope, be discussed widely. Its broad conclusions arc reproduced here ... 

BS EN ISO 105-B01 1999. (1999). Textiles Tests for colour fastness. Colour fastness to light Daylight. British Standards Institution. 

Anon. Preservative treatments for textiles. Part I. Specification for treatments. British Standard 2087. British Standards Institution, London (1981). 

BASF AkticngeseUschaft, 188 Carnegie-Mellon University, 54 Clemson University, 13 Getty Conservation Institute, 108 Library of Congress, 63 Metropolitan Museum of Art, 134 North Carolina State University, 94 Textile Museum, 168 The British Library, 34... 

Then, she joined the staff of the British Cotton Industry Research Association at the Shirley Institute, Manchester, researching the minor constituents of cotton — particularly the complex mixture of substances present in cotton wax and their reaction products during the bleaching and finishing of cotton fibre. Her results were published in a series of papers in the Textile Industry Journal and in the Memoirs of the Shirley Institute. 

Richard Horrocks is Research Professor in Textiles at the Institute for Materials Research and Innovation (IMRI), University of Bolton, UK. During over 40 years servicing the needs of the technical sector, he has published over 200 papers, a number of patents and edited or co-edited seven advanced texts. Subhash C. Anand MBE is Professor of Technical Textiles at the University of Bolton, UK. He has published over 220 textile research papers and holds seven patents in technical textiles. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to higher education and the textile industry in 2008. 

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