Abstract

A bedding product having a colored hem and methods of making the same are disclosed. The bedding product can have a plain body attached to a colored hem which is made color fast so as to inhibit fading of the colored hem and/or prevent bleeding, crocking, and/or running of color from the colored hem onto the plain body during the useful life of the bedding product. The colored hem can be made color fast by a method including selecting a fabric, selecting dyes based on the fabric, preparing the fabric such as by mercerizing, applying the dyes, and treating the dyed fabric to remove unfixed dyes contained in the fabric to improve subsequent colorfastness.

IPC Classes  ?

• D06P 3/52 - Polyesters
• D06P 5/02 - After-treatment
• D06P 3/60 - Natural or regenerated cellulose
• D06P 1/02 - General processes of dyeing or printing textiles or general processes of dyeing leather, furs or solid macromolecular substances in any form, classified according to the dyes, pigments or auxiliary substances employed using azo dyes
• A47G 9/02 - Bed linenBlanketsCounterpanes
• D06P 3/82 - Textiles which contain different kinds of fibres
• D06P 5/20 - Physical treatments affecting dyeing, e.g. ultrasonic or electric
• D06L 3/02 - Bleaching fibres, threads, yarns, fabrics, feathers or made-up fibrous goods, leather or furs using compounds which develop oxygen
• D06M 11/40 - Oxides or hydroxides of elements of Groups 1 or 11 of the Periodic Table combined with, or in absence of, mechanical tension, e.g. slack mercerising
• G09F 3/02 - Forms or constructions