Section outline

  • Any chemical constitution that has the ability to modulate incident light, meaning selective reflections and absorptions of parts of incident light, and that can give a certain surface color, is called a dye or pigment. Therefore, the question arises as to what the difference is? 

    In this lesson, the basic difference between dyes and pigments and the way they bind to textiles will be defined. There is also a review of pigments with special properties that achieve effects such as fluorescence, phosphorescence, thermochromism and photochromism.