One of the main tasks of research is to impact the additional value on natural textiles by adding to them ultraviolet (UV) absorption and antimicrobial protection properties with ZnO nano-level coatings. ZnO shows high absorption in the UV region of the light spectrum, in comparison with organic absorbers conventionally used in the textile industry shows no significant degradation, is stable and classified as non-toxic material. Nanosols were prepared by using the sol-gel process. In this work comparison of samples coated by nanosols with zinc acetate (Zn (CH3COO)2-2H2O) and zinc sulphate (ZnSO4) was made. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used to examine the nature of the surface modification with ZnO coating by the sol-gel technique as also after exploitation of samples; energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy was used for the analysis of elemental composition of coated fabric samples.