Author(s)

Dekun Ma¹, Ming Cheng¹, Dan Zheng¹, Xiaomin Fan¹, Weijie Wang^1,2,3*, Jia Fang^1,2

¹Sichuan Academy of Silk Sciences, Chengdu, China.
²Sichuan Provincial Silk Engineering Research Center, Chengdu, China.
³Faculty of Textile and Garment Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.

Owing to the diversity of consumer’s demand, the traditional Sichuan brocade products have to be innovated in order to survive in a competitive environment. Since the construction of traditional Sichuan brocade was composed of basic-weave, the surface of the fabric shows a regular interweaving planar texture and is difficult to represent a three-dimensional effect. Inspired by embroidery handcraft, this paper attempts to achieve the embroidery-like effect on the fabric through the jacquard process. Based on the multi-backed structure of traditional Sichuan brocade, we adopted the zoned-combination design mode and added extra free-floats interlacing weave in the area where we want to show the embroidered effect and arranged the interlacing points by referring to the feature of the pattern. As a result, designed Sichuan brocades by this method are capable of displaying embroidered effect with high realism and three-dimensionality. This approach improves the artistic effect of the traditional Sichuan brocade and provides a technical reference for further texture design of jacquard fabrics.

Free-Floats, Interlacing Weave, Imitating Embroidery, Sichuan Brocade

Ma, D. , Cheng, M. , Zheng, D. , Fan, X. , Wang, W. and Fang, J. (2020) Development of Sichuan Brocade with Imitating Embroidery Effect Based on Free-Floats Interlacing Weave. Journal of Textile Science and Technology, 6, 11-18. doi: 10.4236/jtst.2020.61002.