Silk is silk, a raw material for textiles. It is just a raw material, not a fabric or a finished product.
Brocade is a brightly colored silk fabric woven from dyed silk. Brocade is not a fabric, but the very famous traditional handicrafts such as Yun Brocade, Song Brocade, and Shu Brocade, as well as brocades woven by modern techniques.
Yunjin brocade is a high-tech silk fabric in ancient my country, so named because it is as beautiful as clouds.
Its ancestor was the Song Dynasty, which flourished in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. It was a tribute to the royal family of all dynasties. It is famous for its “inches of gold” and has rich cultural connotations. , known as “Oriental Treasure” and “Chinese Stunning Beauty”.
The weaving technique called “warp and weft” breaks through the pattern restrictions of traditional brocade, and can weave patterns as you like.
In fact, silk brocade now mostly refers to brocade, because most brocades are silk-colored fabrics, so they are called so.
Brocade is the most famous collective name among traditional Chinese silk fabrics. It is also the most exquisite and gorgeous three-weft fabric among silks. Single-color warp satin is a brocade fabric that uses at least three kinds of colored silk for the satin pattern of weft and weft, and twill is used as an auxiliary decoration during production. A traditional silk weaving variety of our country.
At the end of the 19th century, brocade was developed on the basis of Jiangnan brocade in my country. With satin as the base and more than three colors of weft, it is a triple-grain fabric with one set of wefts intertwined with three sets of wefts. Eight pieces of warp-faced satin woven on a jacquard machine.
According to raw materials, modern brocade is divided into nine categories: silk brocade, rayon brocade, interwoven brocade, gold and silver brocade. It has exquisite patterns, bright colors, tight and thick texture, and smooth and shiny surface. It is a representative variety of silk in my country.