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Finishing

Machine embroidery

Embroidery is the art or handicraft of making or decorating a design on a piece of fabric or other similar supplies with ornamental needlework. Embroidery may also incorporate other materials such as metal strips, pearls, beads, quills, and sequins. Modern-day, computerized machines have made embroidery a lot more intricate and complex. With these substantial-tech machines, you can choose your personal design and add lettering or dates to an occasion.

Textile Finishing

Textile Finishing is any operation (other than preparation and colouring) that improves the appearance and/or usefulness of fabric after it leaves the loom or knitting machine. Finishing is the final series of operations that produces finished textile fabric from grey goods. Textile finishing usually includes treatments such as scouring, bleaching, dyeing and/or printing, the final mechanical or chemical finishing operations etc.

Screen Printing

One method of decorating fabric is screen printing, in this, a pattern is painted onto a fine silk screen with resist emulsion. The core of the screen print process involves a fine mesh, or screen, which is stretched very tightly around an unyielding frame. Any area that is not to be printed, will be masked out on this screen or mesh. To create the print, the framed screen is positioned over the item to be printed along with a splodge of thick ink. The ink is pressed through the screen.

Embroidery – stitch types

Embroidery is a Thread Art of a sewn decorative work of fabric in which artwork, designs, emblems, logo, letters etc are created. A well-digitized design made up of a solid framework of stitches forming its outer edge, fill, satin stitches, and underlay stitches. The design should have a well-planned sewing sequence, with few jump stitches, from one area to another, so there is less thread-trimming to do. And it should be paired with a suitable fabric that displays it to its best advantage.