Garment Washing Techniques—— Acid Wash

The technology which is used to modify or change the appearance, outlook, comfort ability and fashion of the garments is called garment washing. It is done on the garments from heavy fabrics like denim and jeans. Today fashion is incomplete without denim. To change the look of denim or jeans different types of washing process are done. Among various washing process of denim, acid wash is the most popular. In this article I will discuss all procedure of acid wash on jeans.

Acid wash on Denim Jeans has become popular owing to its significant contrasts and attractive appearance in color. Acid wash can be carried out on indigo- and sulphur- based fabric garments. Acid wash is a chemical wash process on denim which strips the top layer of color and makes a white surface while the color remain seen the lower layers of the material, giving it a faded look.

This is also a kind of stone wash, which is accomplished with pumice stones. Due to severe abrasive action, surface fiber damage occurs. In some instances the pumice is impregnated with potassium permanganate (an oxidative bleaching agent), this chemical being less damaging to the cotton fiber than sodium or calcium hypochlorite.