Mud Silk

Mud Silk

by | Nov 16, 2020 | Design, Fabric

Mud Silk a gauze silk product made by coating the mulberry silk fabric with the juice of yam, and then covering it with mineral-containing rivers and ponds and processed by sun exposure.

 

To make this kind of fabric, many processes involved which are done by manual. In the production process of Mud Silk, the operations of soaking, sprinkling, sealing, boiling and washing are very complicated and delicate. A complete dyeing cycle of Mud Silk takes 15 days, but it will be prolonged and affected by weather, and the post-processing will take three months to half a year.

 

Mud Silk feels refreshing and moisturizing, waterproof, sunscreen, hand-washing fastness, easy to wash, easy to dry and durable, etc.

 

Because of the natural dyeing processes, it is now treated as National intangible cultural heritage.

Natural Dye

Natural Dye

by | Nov 10, 2020 | Design, Fabric

Do you know dyeing stuff can be extracted from fruits or flowers? You may surprise that the colors are completely different from original plants. Here’s a list of colors and that the plant came from:

 

  • Blue:indigo, red cabbage, red mulberries, blueberries, purple grapes,
  • Brown:oak bark, walnut hulls, tea, coffee,
  • Green:spinach, peppermint leaves, lilacs, plantain, peach leaves
  • Orange:carrots, gold lichen, onion skins
  • Pink:berries, cherries, avocado
  • Yellow:marigolds, sunflower petals, barberry roots, yellowroot roots, yellow dock roots

 

Actually, there still have a lot of natural dyes. We should thank our earth provide us not only food, but colorful world!

Indigo Dye

Indigo Dye

by | Nov 1, 2020 | Design, Fabric

In recent years, people have started to admire the traditional dyeing process. Indigo dye is one of the oldest dyes.

In ancient times, indigo was extracted from plants. There are many plants that can be made into natural indigo: indigofera tinctoria (wood blue) from India; Indigofera suffruticosa (wood blue) from the United States and Japan’s Persicaria tinctorial (Polygonum blue), etc.

 Although it is natural dyeing stuff, to have better dyeing effect and color fastness, the processes involved need many chemicals to help which hazards the workers’ health and polluting the environment.

 With the help of Scientists, the dyeing processes and technique have greatly improved and reduced the use of harmful chemical and polluting the environment. Indigo dye become sustainable and going back to real natural again.

Environmental Protection Dye

Environmental Protection Dye

by | Oct 26, 2020 | Design, Fabric

There are many dyeing and printing methods, like acid dye, reactive dye, pigment dye, dip dye, tie dye and batik die etc. While for printing, rotary print, screen print and digital print are used. No matter what dyeing or printing method used, the dyeing stuff are normally environmental protection dye. Colors are vivid. There are no harmful chemicals that pollute the environment; color fastness and performance are better than banned dyes.

 

But nowadays, not only environmental protection dye used, people are trying to use natural dye that the dyeing stuff is coming from natural like fruit or flower. In fact, our ancestor already used, our earth is reminding us to utilize from natural as we will go back to nature finally.

Dyeing and Printing

Dyeing and Printing

by | Oct 23, 2020 | Design, Fabric

We provide vertical service to our customer from fabric and garment development to production. We are also selling fabric in both dyed and printed. For printing, just send us artwork, we can arrange screen print or digital print with low MOQ. Let us know if you want to have quotation.