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The article presents a study which examines the use of sodium borohydride (SBH) for stripping of reactive dyed cotton/elastane fabrics. In this experiment, cotton/elastane blends fabrics were dyed by vinyl sulfone reactive dye in accordance to the pad-batch process. Also, the batched roll of wet fabric was wrapped in polythene film and stored at room temperature for 24 hours. Based on the colorimetric results, SBH has good stripping effect and stripping effect was level. Further, the elastic recovery results demonstrate that minimum loss of elasticity was obtained with SBH stripping method.