Patent ID: 6946004

Claim:
A method, comprising: contacting a textile ware with a composition comprising a graft polymer that is comprised of A) polymerized units of a mixture of monomers comprising: a) 1 to 99% by weight of at least one vinyl ester, b) 1 to 99% by weight of at least one N-vinyllactam having from 5 to 13 carbon atoms in the lactam ring, c) 0 to 90% by weight of at least one other monoethylenically unsaturated monomer copolymerizable with the monomers a) and b), and d) 0 to 5% by weight of at least one monomer having at least two ethylenically unsaturated, nonconjugated double bonds in the molecule, wherein the % by weight is based on the total weight of A), grafted onto B) at least one polymer B) selected from the group consisting of a polyalkylene oxide which contains at least 3 units of a C 2 -C 4 -alkylene oxide, a polytetrahydrofuran which contains at least 3 tetramethylene oxide units, and mixtures thereof, wherein said graft polymer comprises from 10 to 90% by weight of A) and from 5 to 90% by weight of B) based on the total weight of graft polymer.