Textile Tuesday: Behind the Scenes

Lacefield textile customers are always curious about how the textile printing process works, so for this week's Textile Tuesday we are giving you a behind the scenes peek at one of our multi-color patterns as it is being printed.  Calypso Tango is a bright, five color pattern that was inspired by vintage suzani florals.  The intricate floral vine pattern was hand drawn by our in-house design team here in Atlanta.  We are proud to print our entire textile line here in the Southeast using the same rotary screen process that has been around for decades.  Watch a short video clip of the rotary process below:

Behind the Scenes: Textile Printing

Lacefield Designs introduces two new textile lines per year, in June and December, at the ITMA Showtime textile trade show in High Point, North Carolina. Months of research, creating concept boards and designing original artwork goes into each textile pattern. This week we are in the midst of our favorite stage, finally seeing the textile patterns transferred to fabric! Here is a behind the scenes peek at the textile printing process:

Ibiza Peacock, introduced in December 2012, is a single screen (one color)
pattern.  Notice this machine can accommodate up to 12 screens! 

ink passes through the tiny holes in the rotary screen

printed fabric is fed into the dryer

after drying, the fabric is inspected before being rolled onto tubes

screens are cleaned in between color changes

rotary screens stored between print runs