There are a lot of patterned towels on the market, but they are basically made by printing, embroidering, and jacquard. These three methods are very different, so the patterns made are also very different.
Printing is the process of forming a pattern on a woven towel with a dye or paint. The printing is a partial dyeing process, which has high requirements for the colorfastness of the dye or paint. The printing process is divided into active printing and general printing, and a printing paper is a heat transfer printing paper directly placed on the fabric, and the pattern can be easily transferred to the fabric by an electric funnel or a heat press machine. The printed paper is used in a wide range of applications. Usually, the towel is printed with a reactive print.
Reactive printing, as the name suggests, means that our printing dyes are processed by reactive printing. The design elements of reactive printing are more diverse: plant flowers, geometric figures, English letters, and different color blocks are organically combined to express different design styles through design methods. Such fabrics are suitable for a wide range of groups and are suitable for a long time. The reactive printed fabrics are bright in color, good in color fastness and soft to the touch. They can be washed and faded, and used for a long time.
Active printing is also known as reactive dyes. It contains reactive groups that react with fiber molecules. In the dying and printing process, the reactive groups of the reactive dye form a combination with the fiber molecules, so that the dye and the fiber form a whole, so that the fabric has excellent dustproof performance, high cleanliness, and long-term washing does not fade. Reactive printing: The use of reactive dyes to penetrate into the fabric to form a print. Generally, active printing and dyeing can ensure that environmental protection is harmless to humans, color and fabric feel better, and there will be no hard and soft feeling.
The embroidering process is a pattern that is machined or manually embroidered on a woven fabric. This process has good color fastness, washing is not easy to fade, and the breathability and hygroscopicity are also good. The computerized embroidery version requires professional graphics software to complete.
The jacquard process is quite different from the first two. Both the printing and the embroidering are reprinted or embroidered on the woven fabric, and the jacquard is formed by patterning the embossed patterns of the different colors in the weaving process. Jacquard fabrics have better breathability and higher relative costs.
If you want to buy a patterned towel that you are used to, you must first understand these three processes before you can buy a satisfactory product.