The Fabric of Your Drive

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Musante, Glenna B.

• The article discusses automotive textile fabrics, which can be found throughout any vehicle one drives, such as the top of the car and on the doors, on the seats, on the floors and in the trunk. Topics discussed include number of issues to be considered with automotive textiles such as lightfastness, durability and sustainability. Also mentioned are key issues of dyes and colorfastness as well as tests for automotive textiles.

• Date created

  2015-06-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Textiles
  • Durability
  • Sustainability
  • Textile dyeing
  • Colorfastness (Textiles)

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-f7g1-9y04

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