Silk printing is a process of printing patterns and colours on silk fabrics, which can add beauty and artistic value to silk fabrics. According to the search results, the printing methods of silk mainly include the following:
1. Direct Printing: this is a kind of printing method that the modulated colour paste is directly printed on white silk or light-coloured silk.
2. Drawing and dyeing Printing (Carving and Printing): The fabric is first dyed with the desired ground colour, and then a reducing agent that can remove the ground colour dye, such as stannous chloride, is added to the printing colour paste for printing. After evaporation, the ground colour can be turned into white (plucked white) or another colour (colour plucked).
3. Anti-dyeing Printing: in the white silk on the first scrape printing can prevent other dyes on the dyeing additives, and then scrape printing with the colour paste ground colour. Tie fine printing is often used in this process. 4.
4. Manual Table Printing: this is a traditional printing method, using manual moving screen frame printing, suitable for printing cut pieces of clothing. 5. automatic/semi-automatic table printing: this is a traditional printing method, using manual moving screen frame printing, suitable for printing cut pieces of clothing.
5. Automatic/Semi-automatic Countertop Printing: This method replaces manual labour by machines, with lower cost and better production speed than manual countertop printing, but the pattern penetration is not as good as that of manual printing.
6. Circular Screen Printing: This is a continuous process of printing, silk fabrics are transported through a wide rubber belt under the cylinder of the circular screen in constant motion, the production speed is very fast.
7. Digital Printing: Using digital technology for printing, special dyes are sprayed directly onto silk fabrics after being processed by a computerised colour separation printing system. This printing method has a short production cycle, exquisite printing effect, suitable for small batch, fast response production, but the printing cost is relatively high.
8. Tie-dyeing: This is a traditional handmade printing and dyeing technique, in which the fabric is dyed by tying it tightly to form a unique pattern. The patterns of tie-dye are non-replicable and each piece is unique.
9. Batik: This is an ancient ethnic minority folk traditional textile printing and dyeing craft, by using a wax knife dipped in molten wax to draw flowers on the cloth and then dyed with indigo to form a pattern of white flowers on a blue background or blue flowers on a white background.
10. Hand-painted: that is, hand-painted on silk fabrics for secondary design, this hand-painted technique in silk clothing design is full of fashionable flavour.
These printing methods have their own characteristics, applicable to different design needs and production conditions. With the development of technology, digital printing and other new technologies are more and more widely used, bringing more innovation and possibilities for silk printing.