The history of textile printing

In secret, we were told that printing on fabric was invented in ancient China. Moreover, they learned to make an ornament on a canvas much earlier than patterns on paper. In that era, they painted in a simple way: they cut out a paper stencil and applied the necessary pattern with it.

In Europe, textile printing did not develop as merrily as in Asia. Historians say that dyes in Europe were not particularly resistant and were quickly washed off the cloth. You get up like this in the morning, and instead of a t-shirt with a banana, you have a snow-white one.

However, around the 12th century, Europeans mastered the technique of imprinting or printing. The technology, however, was invented in India, and it came to the Europeans along trade routes.

On a single piece of wood, a future plot was carved, depicted in a mirror. A layer of paint was applied to the workpiece and the template was pressed tightly against the surface of the material. Then it was released, the wooden stamp was again smeared with dye and applied in another place of the fabric. Simple and tasteful, right?

Now, if the soul asks for beauty, and there is a t-shirt or fabric for it in the closet, then you should know that technologies for applying images to fabric are being improved every day.

Transferring an image to your clothing is usually done in one of three ways:

• draw with paints;
• embroider with threads;
• press the adhesive picture to the fabric using a hot heavy press.

From these three methods, dozens of application technologies were born. Which is better? There is no better one. Each is good for the situation, because fabrics, designs, budgets and circulations are very different.

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