BS 1006:1990

Foreword
Committees responsible
General principles:
A01 General principles of testing
A02 Grey scale for assessing change in colour
A03 Grey scale for assessing staining
A04 Method for the instrumental assessment of the
      degree of staining of adjacent fabrics
Colour fastness to light and weathering:
B01 Colour fastness to light: Daylight
B02 Colour fastness to artificial light: Xenon arc
      fading lamp test
B03 Colour fastness to weathering: Outdoor exposure
B04 Colour fastness to weathering: Xenon arc
B05 Detection and assessment of photochromism
Colour fastness to washing and laundering:
C01 Colour fastness to washing: Test 1
C02 Colour fastness to washing: Test 2
CO3 Colour fastness to washing: Test 3
C04 Colour fastness to washing: Test 4
C05 Colour fastness to washing: Test 5
C06 Colour fastness to domestic and commercial
      laundering
Colour fastness to dry cleaning:
D01 Colour fastness to dry cleaning
D02 Colour fastness to rubbing: Organic solvents
Colour fastness to aqueous agencies:
E01 Colour fastness to water
E02 Colour fastness to sea water
E03 Colour fastness to chlorinated water (swimming-
      bath water)
E04 Colour fastness to perspiration
E05 Colour fastness to spotting: Acid
E06 Colour fastness to spotting: Alkali
E07 Colour fastness to spotting: Water
E08 Colour fastness to water: Hot water
E09 Colour fastness to potting
E10 Colour fastness to decatizing
E11 Colour fastness to steaming
E12 Colour fastness to milling: Alkaline milling
E13 Colour fastness to acid-felting: Severe
E14 Colour fastness to acid-felting: Mild
Adjacent fabrics
F01 Specification for standard adjacent fabric: Wool
F02 Specification for standard adjacent fabric: Cotton
      and viscose
F03 Specification for standard adjacent fabric:
      Polyamide
F04 Specification for standard adjacent fabric:
      Polyester
F05 Specification for standard adjacent fabric:
      Acrylic
F06 Specification for standard adjacent fabric: Silk
F07 Specification for standard adjacent fabric:
      Secondary acetate
F08 Specification for standard adjacent fabric:
      Triacetate
F09 Specification for standard rubbing cloth: Cotton
F10 Specification for adjacent fabric: Multifibre
Colour fastness to atmospheric contaminants:
G01 Colour fastness to nitrogen oxides
G02 Colour fastness to burnt gas fumes
G03 Colour fastness to ozone in the atmosphere
G04 Colour fastness to oxides of nitrogen in the
      atmosphere at high humidities
Measurement of colour and colour differences:
J01 Measurement of colour and colour differences
J02 Method for the instrumental assessment of
      whiteness
Colour fastness to bleaching agencies:
N01 Colour fastness to bleaching: Hypochlorite
N02 Colour fastness to bleaching: Peroxide
N03 Colour fastness to bleaching: Sodium chlorite:
      Mild
N04 Colour fastness to bleaching: Sodium chlorite:
      Severe
N05 Colour fastness to stoving
Colour fastness to heat treatments
P01 Colour fastness to dry heat (excluding pressing)
P02 Colour fastness to pleating: Steam pleating
Colour fastness to vulcanizing:
S01 Colour fastness to vulcanizing: Hot air
S02 Colour fastness to vulcanizing: Sulphur mono-
      chloride
S03 Colour fastness to vulcanizing: Open steam
Colour fastness to miscellaneous agencies:
X01 Colour fastness to carbonizing: Aluminium chloride
X02 Colour fastness to carbonizing: Sulphuric acid
X04 Colour fastness to mercerizing
X05 Colour fastness to organic solvents
X06 Colour fastness to soda boiling
X07 Colour fastness to cross-dyeing: Wool
X08 Colour fastness to degumming
X09 Colour fastness to formaldehyde
X10 Assessment of migration of textile colours into
      polyvinyl chloride coatings
X11 Colour fastness to hot pressing
X12 Colour fastness to rubbing
X13 Colour fastness of wool dyes to processes using
      chemical means for creasing, pleating and setting
X14 Colour fastness to acid chlorination of wool:
      Sodium dichloroisocyanurate
Colourant characteristics:
Z01 Colour fastness to metals in the dye-bath:
      Chromium salts
Z02 Colour fastness to metals in the dye-bath:
      Iron and copper
Colour fastness of leather
UK-LA Colour to heat stability
UK-LB Colour fastness to marking-off of coloured
       leathers
UK-LC Colour fastness to rubbing
UK-LD Colour fastness to water of leather
UK-LE Colour fastness to washing of leather
UK-LF Colour fastness to perspiration of leather
UK-LG Colour fastness to to-and-fro rubbing
Colour fastness tests for textiles
(not yet adopted internationally)
UK-TB Colour fastness to shampooing of textile floor
       coverings
UK-TE Sensitivity to peroxy compounds
UK-TG Colour fastness to perspiration: plate method
UK-TI Colour fastness to salt of textile floor
       coverings
UK-TJ Colour fastness to water of textile floor
       coverings
Figures
(section B01)
1. Correlation of blue wool references for exposure
     to daylight
2. Mounting for method 1
3. Mounting for method 2
(section B02)
1. Mounting for method 1
2. Mounting for method 2
3. Mean values obtained from exposures described
     in 9.3.2
(section E10)
1. Decatizing apparatus
(section E11)
1. Apparatus for determining colour fastness to
     steaming under atmospheric pressure
(section G01)
1. Exposure chamber
2. Alternative exposure chamber
3. Nitric oxide generator
(section G02)
1. Gas-fading apparatus for large-scale testing
(section G03)
1. Test arrangement
(section P02)
1. Specimen holder
2. Specimen holder in the container
(section S02)
1. Exposure chamber for vulcanizing with sulphur
     monochloride
(section X12)
1. 3,2 cm diameter rubbing finger
(section X13)
1. Composite specimen
Alphabetical list of agencies

General principles. Definition of the grey scales for change in colour and for staining. Methods for determining colour fastness to approximately 70 different agents.