13.30Level 4
Finishing of textiles
Explanatory note
This class includes finishing of textiles and wearing apparel, in other words, bleaching, dyeing, dressing and similar activities.
This class includes:
- bleaching and dyeing of textile fibres, yarns, fabrics and textile articles, including wearing apparel
- dressing, drying, steaming, shrinking, mending, sanforising, mercerising of textiles and textile articles, including wearing apparel
This class also includes:
- bleaching of jeans
- pleating and similar work on textiles
- waterproofing, coating, rubberising, or impregnating purchased garments
- printing of textile fabrics as an intermediate process within the manufacture of textiles
This class excludes:
- printing, including silkscreen printing, on textiles and wearing apparel, not as an intermediate process within the manufacture of textiles, see 18.12
- laser engraving on textiles, see 18.12
- manufacture of textile fabric impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with rubber where rubber is the primary constituent, see 22.12