The Influence of Different Substitution Levels of Guar on the Quality of Viscose Prints with VS Monoreactive Dye

Abstract

The basic problem of reactive printing on viscose with polysaccharide guar thickeners is the capability of dye molecule to react with the hydroxyl groups of cellulose (binding of the dye) as well as with the hydroxyl groups of water (the dye hydrolyzes) or the thickener (binding of the dye) (1, 2]. This latter is most clearly expressed in combination of the polysaccharide unmodified guar thickener and the bifunctional reactive dye where the bifunctional dye forms, due to the presence of two reactive groups, a bridge between the cellulose fibre and the guar thickener (3). The unmodified guar has a large number of free hydroxyl groups which cause crosslinking with cellulose and hinder the thickener to wash off, thus increasing the stiffness of the printing fabric. The further investigation has shown that this undesireous reaction with the guar molecules can be partly diminished by the suitable selection of chemically modified guar thickener or by lowering the dry substance content [4, 5]. In this paper the influence of nonsubstituted and different substitutited guar thickeners with monoreactive (vinylsulphone) dyes on the changing of fabric stiffness will be shown.