TXMI 2100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Fast Fashion, Noise Reduction, Corn Starch

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors
• Course: TXMI 2100
• Professor: Bhat

Document Summary

By nature, some fabrics have their own color, texture, feel, etc: may not be appealing or aesthetic, humans change the properties to create more aesthetics and appeal, may improve performance, give additional functionality. Consumers want: aesthetically pleasing colors and prints, color permanence, will not bleed, crock, fade, frost, migrate. Special piece dyed effects: cross dyeing, union dyeing, tone-on-tone dying. Printing methods: screen printing, hand-screen, automatic, rotary, roller printing-similar to printing a newspaper, fast process, efficient, roller picks up the dye. Types of printing: direct printing, discharge printing, resist printing, duplex printing, warp printing, flock printing, de luster printing, burn out printing. Special printing techniques: heat transfer printing-thermal transfer, sublimation printing, photographic printing-photo transfer. Problems with printing: accuracy, out of register prints-edges do not line up correctly, off grain prints-do not follow length wise or crosswise grain of fabric. Handcraft printing: resist methods, batik, tie dying, stenciling, block printing, hand printing, airbrushing.