

Some research focused on the full-color digital jacquard fabric design, others developed the pattern innovation method based on full-color structure and polymeric optical fiber. Predecessors have done a lot of research work on the pattern and color innovation of jacquard fabric. The prior studies proposed that innovation in pattern and texture design was essential for the innovation of traditional brocade.

However, this traditional fabric cannot meet the needs of modern consumers, so it is extremely urgent to innovate traditional Sichuan brocade. As a jacquard fabric, the Sichuan brocade usually adopts multi-backed wefts construction and combines the process of adding extra weft and replacing the weft to generate a multi-colored pattern effect on the surface of fabric.

Song brocade and Yun brocade) in China, Sichuan brocade has the longest history and is the first milestone of Chinese brocade. This approach improves the artistic effect of the traditional Sichuan brocade and provides a technical reference for further texture design of jacquard fabrics.ĭifferent from other famous silk brocades (i.e. As a result, designed Sichuan brocades by this method are capable of displaying embroidered effect with high realism and three-dimensionality. Based on the multi-backed structure of traditional Sichuan brocade, we adopted the zoned-combination design mode and added extra free-floats interlacing weave in the area where we want to show the embroidered effect and arranged the interlacing points by referring to the feature of the pattern. Inspired by embroidery handcraft, this paper attempts to achieve the embroidery-like effect on the fabric through the jacquard process. Since the construction of traditional Sichuan brocade was composed of basic-weave, the surface of the fabric shows a regular interweaving planar texture and is difficult to represent a three-dimensional effect. Owing to the diversity of consumer’s demand, the traditional Sichuan brocade products have to be innovated in order to survive in a competitive environment.
