Creating the Silk Scarf

The Hermes Silk Scarf 's success naturally encouraged the company's rivals to act on the luxury market. Fashion houses, couturiers, leather goods manufacturers, and tie manufacturers have begun to design their own collections silk scarf . Of course, the world's most famous names in the fashion world have developed not only Hermes's copy, but also their own style. Often the use of expressive and abstract motifs, not the highly decorative Hermes style.

The starting point for any of the silk scarves is the designer's original idea that has been developed from sketches or existing motifs. Often the designer inspired historical prints, illustrations or woven patterns, or sometimes antique furniture, carpets or antique porcelain. The idea is still relatively obscure at this point and it is therefore a concrete drawing of a graphic designer. This drawing is used to make templates for all colors used with screen printing. Once the design has been approved, the color effect of the composition is tested on paper. If the result is satisfactory, the type of silk is selected. Silk-like ribbed texture may be possible, while in other cases it may be that textiles with woven patterns or motifs, such as logos or letters, that are visible in the light would be better.

There are two types of screen printing. In one, colors come in one after the other to the natural fabric. In the other, so-called discharge printing, the base fabric is dark in color and the pattern is achieved by "removing" or "subtracting" the dark color from the affected areas and replacing it with lighter colors. Dripping printing is ideal for patterns with dark backgrounds because dark colors are more intense and deeper than black or blue can be easily printed.

For "normal" screen printing, the process is inverted, so printing makes the lighter material darker. The first section marks the contour of the pattern on the fabric; This is followed by the use of colors that may contain up to 18 or more shades depending on the design. After a color has been printed on a silk scarf, the operation is repeated on the next silk scarf but leaves one of the silk scarves at this stage so the fresh colors of the edges do not crumble or run together. Thus, the first stage is printing the outline of the first silk scarf followed by the third, fifth and thirty-one silk scarves. When the colors are dry, the second, fourth, sixth and so on forty-one silk scarves are printed.