Fabric and method of manufacture
AssigneeAshford Textiles, LLC.
InventorsYuehua Allen Guo, Jack Burns
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Abstract
A method of printing and processing a fabric having first material yarns forming a technical front, and second material yarns forming a technical back, first and second material yarns being held together by a ground; carding and polishing the technical front to increase the permeability of the fabric; printing an image on the technical front of the fabric, so that ink from the printing process penetrates to the ground of the fabric; brushing and napping the technical back, after the printing process, so that ink from the technical front is pulled through the ground to the technical back, so that a mirror image of the image from the technical front is formed on the technical back.
Claims6
A method of printing and processing a fabric, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a fabric comprising first material yarns forming a technical front, and second material yarns forming a technical back, first and second material yarns being held together by a ground;
- carding and polishing the technical front to increase the permeability of the fabric;
- printing an image on the technical front of the fabric, so that ink from the printing process penetrates to the ground of the fabric;
- brushing and napping the technical back, after the printing process, so that ink from the technical front is pulled through the ground to the technical back, so that a mirror image of the image from the technical front is formed on the technical back.
A method of printing and processing a fabric, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a fabric comprising first material yarns forming a technical front, and second material yarns forming a technical back, first and second material yarns being held together by a ground;
- carding and polishing the technical front to increase the permeability of the fabric;
- printing an image on the technical front of the fabric via heat transfer printing at a temperature of about 205 C, for at least 50 seconds, so that ink from the printing process penetrates to the ground of the fabric;
- brushing and napping the technical back, after the printing process, so that ink from the technical front is pulled through the ground to the technical back, so that a mirror image of the image from the technical front is formed on the technical back;
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- performing further carding and polishing on the technical front, after printing, to further enhance penetration so that the ink penetrates to the technical back.
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