What kind of fabric is brocade, does it pill?

The brocade is a satin silk fabric, will not be hairy.

The brocade fabric is a silk or rayon, sometimes with some polyester and other materials woven into a large jacquard fabric, it is color woven, that is, before weaving the yarn dyed color and then weaving jacquard fabric, generally cotton yarn, will not be puckered will not be hanging silk.

Because it is silk color woven products, the picture is glossy and vivid, rich in three-dimensional sense, high quality, affordable, with not easy to fade, easy to collect and so on.

Expanded Information

The classification of brocade:

Nanjing brocade:

Nanjing brocade is a traditional Chinese silk crafts, "brocade" is the name. "Its history can be traced back to 417 (Jin Yi Xi 13 years) in the capital of Jiankang set up special management of brocade official department - brocade department, so far has a history of 1,600 years.

Today, only Yunjin still maintains its traditional features and unique techniques, and has always retained the traditional jacquard wooden machine weaving, a traditional hand-weaving technique that relies on human memory to weave and still cannot be replaced by modern machines.

Sichuan Shu brocade:

Sichuan Shu brocade is a kind of brocade with a long history, which was developed in the Qin and Han dynasties, flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties, and flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties in the Eastern Han Dynasty has been famous all over the world. Since the Han and Tang dynasties for more than 1000 years, Shu brocade north and south of the Silk Road a steady stream of export, that accelerated the development of China's silk industry and the spread of cultural exchanges between the East and the West has had an indelible impact on the promotion of.

Suzhou Song brocade:

Song brocade is produced in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, which is famous for being woven in the Northern Song Dynasty. The weaving technique is unique, and the warp silk is divided into two parts: the face warp and the ground warp, which is also known as "heavy brocade".

Song brocade is one of China's traditional silk handicrafts. Started in the late Song Dynasty (about 11th century AD), the products are divided into heavy brocade and fine brocade (these two types are also known as brocade), and box brocade, small brocade. Heavy brocade texture is heavy, the product is mainly used for palaces, hall interior furnishings. Fine brocade is the most representative of the Song brocade in a class of moderate thickness, widely used in clothing, framing.

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