The Beauty of Wild Muga Silk: Properties and Dyeing Process Optimization

Silk fibre is a wonderful gift of nature. Man has always been inquisitive for silk because of its amazing properties. The Golden yellow Muga silk is a wild variety of silk and is eco-friendly. It is called pride of Assam state of India. This book explains various unique properties of different types of silk fibres, especially Muga silk. This book emphasizes history, properties, research findings and dyeing process optimization for this beautiful Muga silk fibre. The silk can be effectively dyed with almost all common dyes. Here include detailed study of dyeing Muga silk fabric with different classes of reactive dyes and also study the effect of dyeing on the physical properties of Muga silk fabric. The book may prove very useful for the students,researchers and all other people,interested in silk fibre.