History Of Textiles Printing

The textiles printing started roughly in the East Indian area of China, which is the home of Textile Printing, because the history and research proved that India and China firstly initiated the block printing by engraving the wood.

Almost 500 years ago they managed to achieve the method of how to put pictures of letters onto a textiles fabric. Back then people printed only pictures onto textiles cloth. The ancient Persian civilizations that was also familiar with the textile cloth printing made finer linen fabric. The garments they used on mummies were decorated with different printing blocks such as circles, squares and triangles.

Later on Portuguese business personnel spread the uses of printed fabric into the Europe, and at the time they were very popular in Europe and Asia.

These clothes or garments are- Maslin(Dhaka), Zamdani, Benaroshi,Broket, Bulbul Khosom Khasia, Fulkuri, Bug, Kanta, Du-shala, Chandra-Tara, Dupchaya, Sorgola, Kahaba, Kashia, Mokhmal, Baluchar, Butider, Potula, Bandhoni, Chunri, chairala, Pottal Silk etc. This is the history of Textiel Printing.

Printing Equipment

In printing you used wooden blocks, stencils, engraved plates, rollers or even silk screens to put the colours onto fabric. Colorants that are used in printing contain thick dyes to stop the colour from spreading beyond the pattern or the design.

There are four traditional textiles printing styles which are:

-          Direct printing, in which colorants containing dyes, thickeners, and the mordant or substances necessary for fixing the colour on the cloth are printed in the desired pattern.

-          The printing of a mordant in the desired pattern prior to dyeing cloth; the colour adheres only where the mordant was printed.

-          Resist dyeing, in which a wax or other substance is printed on to fabric which is subsequently dyed. The waxed areas do not accept the dye, leaving uncoloured patterns against a colour ground.

-    Discharge printing, in which a bleaching agent is printed onto previously dyed fabrics to remove some or the entire colour.

This picture is of hand printing.....

Textiles Printing

Designer Alexander McQueen has been using digital printing in his spring 2010 fashion show:

He uses animal print patterns such as a snake skin effect... 

...to bright, bold eye catching colours. 

Repeated Pattern

This was an experiment of repeated patterns that I did on photoshop. To do this I had to design a stamp (which is the tree) in a full block colour of black, then I used the "magic wand tool" to outline it and I saved it to my stamps. Next I changed the size and the colour of the tree and just stamped it onto the page in a repeated pattern and this is how it turned out.  

PhotoShop Colours

This is another experiment using the brushes in photoshop but this time I did it in colour.
I prefered using the black and white because you can get better effects and it looks more interesting!

PhotoShop Black And White

This is my black and white experiment with photoshop using the different brushes to create different effects.

This Is A Picture Of A Repeated Pattern :)

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