AATCC unveils UV fabric colour reference solution

27/02/2013
The American Association of Textile Chemists and Colourists (AATCC) has launched an ultraviolet calibration reference fabric which it says will aid colour communication throughout the textile supply chain, saving “expensive miscommunications”.

The optically brightened reference fabric has been calibrated to a national standardising lab and is designed to give more accurate measurements than the non-textile UV calibration plaques usually supplied with a spectrophotometer, said the company.

It provides a target CIE-whiteness value that can be used to adjust spectrophotometers for measuring optically-brightened textiles, no matter which method an instrument uses to calibrate UV content. “The spectral data from optically-brightened textiles can be exchanged more accurately within the supply chain and digitally-based quality assessments will be more precise and easier to accomplish,” it said.