16 Commonly Used Clothing Fabric Design Methods

Fabric is the basic carrier for workwear designers to interpret popular themes and embody workwear styles. It carries the designer's ideas and thoughts. A famous South Korean designer Adam Kims said: "The work of a workwear designer begins with fabric design. A good piece of fabric is put on the body, and it is a very beautiful garment. It does not require much design, so it itself Half of the work outfit design has been completed, and it also brings more inspiration to the work outfit design."

The fabric design should be based on the concept of serving the entire workwear design. A good work wear requires repeated communication and cooperation between the fabric designer and work wear designer. Workwear designers determine colors, patterns and styles by analyzing and predicting domestic and foreign fashion trends and combining local economic developments and consumer psychological needs. Fabric designers design the fabric's organizational structure by selecting appropriate fiber materials. Combine color deployment to show the design ideas of workwear designers.

Fashion is inseparable from the important factor of color. Color change is the most direct and eye-catching part of the overall workwear design, leaving the deepest impression on people, and the display of color cannot be separated from the carrier of fabric. Fabrics of different fiber materials show different shades. For example, silk fabrics and linen fabrics dyed with the same green feel completely different. Silk fabrics are bright, soft and elegant, while linen fabrics are more rustic and close to nature. Different fabric textures give completely different expressions of colors.

In recent years, fabrics have become increasingly fashionable, and more and more people in the industry and consumers have begun to pay attention to fabrics. Because at every new fabric product announcement conference, in addition to seeing more novel fabrics, designers' inspirations are more easily inspired here, consumers can also feel the most cutting-edge fashion trends here, and companies Hope to find the market value of the product through it.

In foreign countries, the cooperation between workwear designers and fabric designers is particularly close, and the integration of workwear upstream and downstream industry chains is also very close. Designers not only design workwear, but also design fabrics. For example, in Italy, some workwear designers themselves It is the fabric designer.

Commonly used workwear fabric design methods

One, connect

Connection is a redesign technique commonly used in fabrics as surface materials. The connection method can be divided into sewing and pasting.

seam and paste

Two, cut and paste

Cut and paste is a method of directly using scissors to cut out the required shape on the required part of the work clothes fabric or cut it and then make the shape by sewing and patching. Clipping includes cutting, patching, cutting, etc.

Three, rubbing together

Twisting is a commonly used design method for linear materials. Most of the twisting is formed by twisting with two hands. Sometimes, a tool such as a spindle is used to form or knit a thicker wire.

Four, hollow

hollowing includes hollowing, hollowing, hollowing wire, hollowing, etc.

Five, embellishment

Decoration is a design that adds certain shapes to work clothes.

Six, pleats

pleating brings subtle movement and a sense of volume to the twists and turns of the fabric. The pleating techniques include crimping, creasing, pinching, twisting, wavy lace, stacking, and stacking.

Seven, drawnwork

Drawnwork refers to removing the warp or weft of the fabric. Sometimes the warp and weft of the fabric are of the same color, sometimes of different colors. The drawn fabric will have a feeling of virtual and solid or color, and sometimes reveal the skin color or work inside. Colors enhance the sense of hierarchy of work clothes.

8. Imprint

Embossing refers to pressing the required patterns and patterns on the work clothes fabric through a special process. Usually the pressed part is concave, and the unprinted part is raised, forming a good texture on the fabric. .

Nine, twist

Twisting refers to the method of using the plasticity of soft fabrics to stretch and flip the fabric using methods such as kneading, rubbing, and twisting, so that a certain texture effect is formed on the surface of the fabric.

10, inkjet

Inkjet is a method of spraying the mixed paint on the surface of the cloth using tools such as airbrush or spray gun.

eleven, tie

Tie is to place beads, buttons, cotton balls or polyacrylonitrile fiber cotton and other fillers under a softer fabric, and then tie them on the front of the fabric, or tie the fabric directly on the surface of the fabric.

12, make old

Distressing is the use of water washing, sand washing, rinsing, coloring, tearing and other means to process the fabric to make the fabric look old.

thirteen, stacked

Stacking is the stacking of workwear fabrics or other materials according to the design requirements.

14. Embroidery

embroidery is the most traditional workwear fabric decoration technique. The stitches and raised patterns of the embroidery thread give the pattern a unique embossed beauty. Embroidery includes hand embroidery and computer embroidery.

fifteen, knitting

knitting mainly refers to winding linear materials by hand, or knitting and forming wool or silk threads, spun yarns with needles and crochet needles. The patterns and flower shapes of the knitting are particularly rich.

16, knotted embroidery

The traditional Chinese knotted embroidery, also known as cloth embossing, or smocking in Westerners, is a standing structure and a unique joint structure.