Laser-enhanced fabric for digital finishing by laser

A method comprising:

• providing a laser-enhanced garment made from fabric panels of a denim material, wherein the fabric panels are sewn together using thread,
• the denim material will be finished by using a laser according to a laser input file comprising a digital finishing pattern to remove selected amounts of material from a surface of the denim material at selected locations of the laser-enhanced garment,
• the denim material comprises an indigo ring-dyed cotton yarn having a cross section comprising an outer ring and an inner core, a cross-sectional profile comprises a total ring dye thickness of the outer ring that is from 15 percent to 25 percent of a total thickness of the yarn,
• the outer ring is indigo colored due to being penetrated through by an indigo dye while the inner core is white or off-white colored due to not being penetrated to by the indigo dye, and
• using a digital design tool, creating the digital finishing pattern to be burned onto the laser-enhanced garment by a laser, wherein the digital design tool generates a visualization in color on a computer screen of the finishing pattern on the laser-enhanced garment and allows editing of the finishing pattern, and
• the editing allowed comprises at least one of altering the finishing pattern itself, altering a position of the finishing pattern relative to the laser-enhanced garment on the computer screen, or altering a scaling of the finishing pattern relative to the laser-enhanced garment on the computer screen.

A system comprising:

• a laser-enhanced jeans template comprising a denim fabric of cotton yarn dyed using an indigo dye to have a cross section comprising an outer ring and an inner core, wherein a cross section of a ring-dyed yarn comprises a total ring-dye thickness of the outer ring that is from 15 percent to 25 percent of a total thickness of the yarn, and the outer ring is indigo colored due to being penetrated through by the indigo dye while the inner core is white or off-white colored due to not being penetrated to by the indigo dye;
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• a digital design tool, creating a finishing pattern to be burned onto the laser-enhanced jeans template by a laser finishing machine, wherein the digital design tool generates a visualization in color on a computer screen of the finishing pattern on the laser-enhanced jeans template after a postlaser wash and allows editing of the finishing pattern, and
• the editing allowed comprises at least one of altering the finishing pattern itself, altering a position of the finishing pattern relative to the laser-enhanced jeans template on the computer screen, or altering a scaling of the finishing pattern relative to the laser-enhanced jeans template on the computer screen.