Print Fabric
There are many different producers of fabrics in the world and there are many different types of fabric in the world. People use fabric every day for a whole range of uses from making clothes to upholstering furniture. Our technological innovation has brought forth a number of ways to create the fabrics that we want for whatever purpose we want it. The industry uses different sorts of dyes to create nearly any color of the rainbow and they can create print fabric with nearly any design or creation printed upon it.
But a century ago or so it was not that easy to create print fabrics or even fabrics that are a range of interesting colors. For that matter it was nearly impossible to create fabric that was more than a single color and those that were, were terribly expensive and could only be afforded by the rich. The process of dying cloth and fabric comes a very long way and people have been doing it in some form or another for millennia. Using the juices of berries, plants, rocks and other things, they would create a concentrated colored liquid that roughly equates to what we know as dyes today. The cloth or fabric then had to be soaked in that liquid for a long time before the color would stay.
Adorning the fabric with anything else aside from fabric was an even bigger chore! For the most part people did not bother with anything else aside from colors but there were some – most notably royalty and the like – that demanded their clothes be more magnificent and impressive than the clothes of the commoners. Centuries ago they would have painted any other designs or colors onto the cloth or fabric. Embroidery was another way to add designs to a fabric and was a favorite method especially in the Middle Ages and the Victorian era. Aside from this, they would sew on other bits and pieces. Considering the speed at which modern machines can create something as complex as paisley today and one has to wonder at the time spent weaving different colored yarn together to create the tartan fabrics of the Scots – let alone some of the other pieces of print fabric from history.
While some of these old methods are still used today, machines do for the most part all of the work these days. A computer has the design of the fabric in its memory and then weaves the threads together faster than any human could to create print fabrics that have stunning detailed pictures upon them. We can create today fabrics and designs that would have taken a weaver days to create and we can also create things that the poor weaver could only dream of. From coloring roughly woven cloth with bits of powdered rock to the stunning colors and designs we have today, humanity has certainly come a long way as far as clothes are concerned.
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