What clothes are printed fabrics suitable for?

Printed fabric, in short, is made by printing and dyeing dyes on the fabric.

The difference from jacquard is that printing is to complete the weaving of grey cloth first, and then dye and print the printed pattern on the cloth.

Printed cloth became popular as early as the Tang and Song Dynasties and reached its peak in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

It is an essential product for dowry bedding and clothes.

Classification of printed fabrics

There are many kinds of printed fabrics according to their different materials and production processes.

According to different printing process equipment, it can be divided into: manual printing, including batik, tie dyeing, hand-painted printing, and machine printing, including transfer printing, roller printing, screen printing, etc.

In modern fashion design, printing pattern design is no longer limited by technology, but has more imagination and design space.

Women’s wear can be designed with romantic flowers, colorful stripe stitching and other patterns, which can be used in a large area in dresses to show women’s tenderness and temperament.

Men’s wear is mostly made of plain fabrics. The whole is decorated with printing patterns.

Animals, English and other patterns can be printed and dyed. Most of them are casual clothes, highlighting men’s sense of maturity and stability.

Application range of printed fabrics

Printed fabrics are widely used, not only in clothing design, home textiles are also inseparable from printing.

Modern machine printing also solves the problem of low production capacity of traditional manual printing, greatly reduces the cost of printed fabrics, and makes printing a good and cheap fabric choice on the market.

However, the disadvantage is that the printed and dyed patterns will fade or lose color after long-term wearing and washing. Pay attention to daily maintenance.

The process threshold of printed fabrics is not high, which can be found in major textile cities and cloth markets in China.

Advantages of printed fabrics

1. The patterns of printed cloth are various and beautiful, which solves the problem that there was only pure color cloth without printing in the past

2. It has greatly enriched people’s material life enjoyment, and the printed cloth is widely used, which can not only be worn as clothes, but also be mass produced

3. Good quality and low price, ordinary people can basically afford it and are loved by them.

Disadvantages of printed fabrics

1. The pattern of traditional printed cloth is relatively single, and the color and pattern are subject to great limitations

2. Printing cannot be transferred on pure cotton fabric, and the printed fabric may be decolorized and discolored after long use.