Brocade is a traditional Chinese silk fabric with three or more colors of weft pattern on warp satin. It has a bright and delicate surface, rich hand feel, and gorgeous colors. It is mainly used for women’s high-end clothing, and is also often used to make decorative items such as ties, bedspreads, table blankets, and cushions.
Brocade is the most famous traditional silk fabric in China, and it is also the most exquisite and gorgeous triple weft fabric among silk fabrics. The fabric of brocade is a single-color warp satin, with at least three kinds of colored silk as weft satin pattern, and twill is also used to assist decoration during production. One of my country’s traditional silk weaving varieties.
Brocade was developed on the basis of brocade in the south of my country at the end of the 19th century. It uses satin as the base and more than three colored silks as the weft, that is, a triple weft fabric in which one set of warp and three sets of weft are interwoven. Eight warp-faced satin weaves are woven on a jacquard machine. Modern brocade can be divided into nine types according to raw materials: silk brocade, rayon brocade, interwoven brocade and gold and silver brocade. With exquisite patterns, gorgeous colors, tight and thick texture, and smooth and shiny surface, it is a representative variety among Chinese silks.
