Process for the rapid, continuous and waterless dyeing and texturizing and heat-setting of textile and plastic materials

A process for texturizing and heat-setting textile material containing a low boiling texturizing agent in liquid phase in an amount sufficient to cause flashing of the low boiling texturizing agent upon contact of the thus-treated textile material with a high boiling organic liquid at a relatively high temperature, comprising contacting textile material impregnated with the low boiling liquid texturizing agent with the high boiling organic liquid at a high temperature thus texturizing and heat-setting the textile material, cooling the texturized textile material and washing same with a low boiling organic liquid which is free or substantially free of water, followed by drying the texturized textile material, the washing and drying steps being carried out in an essentially closed system, with the separation and recovery of the low boiling organic wash liquid, low boiling organic wash liquid thus recovered being recycled to the washing step and with the low boiling organic wash liquid vaporized from the textile material during the drying step being recovered, and with the low boiling texturizing agent that is evaporated during the texturizing and heat-setting being removed from the high temperature textile material contacting zone as a mixture thereof with vapor of the high boiling organic liquid.