What is Etching? Etching is also commonly known as Devore. Devore is a fabric technique particularly used on velvets, where a mixed-fibre material undergoes a chemical process to dissolve the cellulose fibers to create a semi-transparent pattern against more solidly woven fabric.
Materials Needed for Etching Silk Viscose Velvet Fabric, Fiber Remover, Screen print Stencil & Squeegee
Etching Using the screen printing method, replace the ink/paint with Fiber Remover and print on the Silk Viscose Velvet Fabric. leave the fabric to dry for 24hours and apply heat to the fabric with iron to remove the fiber. Instead of using the Screen Printing method, user can also use brush to paint on the fabric.
What is Bleaching? Bleaching is a method whereby it removes the colour from the fabric or whiten it by oxidation or reduction. Bleaching can be use to create beautiful design/pattern on clothes or fabric.
Materials needed for Bleaching Bleach, Dark colour !00% Cotton, Spray bottle, Rubber band
Bleaching Cover the part of the fabric that you do not wish to be bleach by folding, twisting or cover it with an object. Spray it on the floor and open up and leave it under the sun for it to observe the changes.
What is Rastering? Laser etching also known as rastering is a method whereby the laser head engraves by moving from left to right slowly down the material.
Materials needed for Rastering Laser cutting machine, wood or acrylic
Rastering First create an image using 2D software and save it as DXF. file and open the file in coreldraw. Image that want to be raster need to be in black when image that need to be cut out need to be in red. This is because laser cutting machine are set to print black first then red. After changing the colors, set printing properties according to image and send for printing.
