133000 Finishing of textiles

This type includes finishing of textiles and wearing apparel, in other words, bleaching, dyeing, dressing and similar activities.

This type 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 type 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 type excludes:

• printing, including silkscreen printing, on textiles and wearing apparel, not as an intermediate process in manufacture of textiles, see 181209
• laser engraving on textiles, see 181209
• manufacture of textile fabric impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with rubber where rubber is the primary constituent, see 221200