Process for making bas-relief surfaces applied to downy fabrics

1) A PROCESS FOR MAKING BAS-RELIEF SURFACES APPLIED TO DOWNY FABRICS, wherein a tuft-making machine or “tufting machine” is used and the fabric is printed by silk screen techniques, which process is started with the spinning step wherein tufts are adequately processed so that yarns suitable for the production of tufts can be obtained, said yarns being disposed in tapered bobbins which are then placed close to the “tufting machine” where a plurality of loops is made on a base fabric by needling the yarns on the above mentioned tapered bobbins, which fabric is then transferred to the printing unit where drawings or graphics are inserted into the surface of the fabric through silk screen techniques by employing a conveniently perforated screen for each color of ink applied to the fabric and, after the ink is applied, the fabric is sequentially moved to a vaporizer, a washer and a dryer, and from the latter to the equipment called tentering machine, wherein it is adjusted on its cutting line and the drying process proceeds, being moved next to the equipment called shredding machine that pulls the fabric down through the rotation and translation of multiple rotating cylindrical brushes, providing same with a much higher thickness than the one it had when the loops were present, moving next to a tuft-making machine designed to disentangle the down, and is moved therefrom to cutters that cut the down in a regular shape and provide same with bright and, finally, the fabric is moved to the finishing and packing unit;

• said process being characterized by comprising the insertion of changes in the stamping step by replacing the ink in at least one of the silk screen printing frames with a glue solution homogenized with a dye and the insertion of an intermediate step for drying the thus-printed fabric in the dryer after it leaves the vaporizer and before it is moved to the washer.