20 1 1 At the end of the year, some cross-stitch manufacturers in Yiwu, China developed a new type of cross-stitch through technical transformation. This kind of cross-stitch is to print the drawings directly on the fabric, so that consumers will no longer embroider according to the drawings. From the point of view of convenience, this design has accelerated the embroidery speed of the finished product, and also won the favor of some consumers in a short time.
Strictly speaking, the origin of printed cross-stitch is not a patent of China. The original prototype is the invention of foreign old cross-stitch dimension and DMC.
DIM's Printed Cross-stitch In 2003, DIM designer Everley found that for some areas with similar backgrounds and indistinguishable colors, embroidery thread could not achieve good performance results, and it also increased the embroidery workload of consumers fearlessly, so they tried to use advanced environmental protection pigments to print the designed patterns on fabrics, and the results were welcomed by consumers all over the world. Of course, consumers have to pay more for these products.
For domestic cross-stitch lovers, it is not only a few hundred dollars' expenditure, but also a long wait. This kind of cross-stitch products are strictly controlled from the source of printing and dyeing pigments, resulting in an average circulation period of about 1-2 months in China.
Of course, the designer of Dimension didn't print out the drawings in the end. On the blog of Everley and his R&D team, they said: Printed pictures? Why not print directly? (printed with drawings? Then why not just print an oil painting? ) Is calico cross-stitch a product innovation DMC fabric product designer The author consulted several large cross-stitch companies in China and asked if the calico cross-stitch that is more common in the market recently is an updated product. The answers are all negative. They said: "the fun lies in the process and the result, both of which are indispensable."
Cross-stitch is a very typical project, enjoying the process of embroidery, and the process of pursuing the result of finished products and waiting. Excessive pursuit of speed will inevitably sacrifice happiness and sense of accomplishment. If you are used to printed cloth, it is not far from machine embroidery.
People are constantly accustomed to quick success and instant benefit, and we don't want to be too impetuous in the quiet and peaceful cross-stitch field.
"The product manager of a cross-stitch enterprise in China thinks:" Cross-stitch of calico is just for innovation, which does not promote the development of the industry or create greater value for consumers, but may have destructive effects.
What we need is scientific development and innovation. Any innovative behavior should first consider consumers, rather than making gimmicks to gain benefits.
Some cross-stitch lovers said: Although cross-stitch with printed cloth can improve the speed of embroidery, there is a general lack of freshness in the process of embroidery, and they lose the sense of accomplishment of spelling out a picture with lines.
Now all that is left is to manually print the area printed by the machine again.
They can't embroider printed cross-stitch except for giving it away.
A senior embroiderer of a well-known cross-stitch forum said: The best printing technology in the world is in Germany, and the best fabrics in the world are also in Germany. German designers are also one of the best designers in the world. Why don't people use calico for cross stitch? DMC tried to make printed cross stitch ten years ago, and finally canceled the product, leaving only printed cross stitch (background printing). Why? The owner of a well-known online shopping website overseas purchasing shop said: Japanese and Korean cross-stitch has reached a high CT. If the pattern is printed on the fabric with high CT, the performance effect is not much different from that of embroidery with embroidery thread, so there is no printed cross stitch in Japan and South Korea. If anyone gives them a printed cross stitch suit, they will feel incompetent and need such support to complete a work, and their mood will be depressed for a long time.
The editor of a well-known enterprise management magazine said: This is the effort made by China cross-stitch enterprises after they feel the pressure of survival. It is a great decision to develop new products without price war, purely from the perspective of business behavior; Because the existing small and medium-sized cross-stitch enterprises lack modern management talents, it is great to take this step at present.
However, there is still a lack of ability in the development of new products. Calico cross-stitch is not an innovation, but an attempt.
Development Status China Printed Cross-stitch originated in Yiwu, and the first batch of products appeared in 2006. However, because the fabric printing process is not up to standard, most of the grids are biased, which is of little practical significance to consumers.
In 2008, after a series of technological innovations, some cross-stitch products can be completely aligned, but because the unit output is too small to be mass-produced, there is still no such product on the market.
20 1 1 In the second half of the year, some manufacturers introduced German technology, which basically aligned most of the checkered color blocks. This is the first time that drawings are really printed on fabrics, which is really convenient for consumers and greatly improves the speed of finished products.
In the first half of 20 12, some consumers began to feel that they had lost their embroidery fun for a long time, and a large number of unfinished works (that is, unfinished works) appeared, and began to reduce the repeated demand for the same type of products.
According to the industry, cross-stitch is not a necessity. In the harsh domestic economic environment, all small and medium-sized cross-stitch enterprises are facing the pressure of survival. Under such circumstances, it is commendable for manufacturers to start investing in the research and development of new products, but at the same time, more detailed market research and analysis are needed.
The strategic breakthrough of small and medium-sized enterprises in this environment depends on developing high-quality products that are more suitable for consumers, but printed cross-stitch is obviously not suitable, because it does not have the deeper value of cross-stitch products for consumers, but only innovates to distinguish other products and constantly overdraws consumers' enthusiasm, which is very inappropriate for both the industry and consumers.
Five shortcomings: the first shortcoming: the formaldehyde in the fabric exceeds the standard. I have consulted the textile printing and dyeing industry in detail about why the color of printed cross-stitch products will be dissolved by washing.
Printed cross-stitch washing dyes must be expressed in formaldehyde: the color disappears in water, and there is only one way, that is, the weak acidity is dissolved by air and carbon dioxide.
For example, in a sodium hydroxide solution with a pH of pH 10, thymolphthalein is blue. After using the water-soluble pen, NaOH aqueous alcohol solution volatilizes, but it will react with carbon dioxide in the air when it meets water, and thymolphthalein will become transparent when it meets water.
However, many water-soluble pigments on the market are physical in nature. Pigment is mixed and fixed on the fabric with formaldehyde which is easily soluble in water. Therefore, when the fabric meets water, formaldehyde dissolves, pigment particles fall off from the fabric, and then no color can be seen after rinsing with clear water.
But the biggest harm of this is the harm of formaldehyde to human body.
Formaldehyde is one of the most dangerous killers to human health.
In addition to seriously affecting human respiratory tract and causing skin allergy, formaldehyde is also a serious carcinogen and leukemia inducer, which was identified as a kind of carcinogen by the International Health Organization in 2006 (that is, it is carcinogenic to both humans and animals-"SufficentVideofcarcinogenicity").
Formaldehyde poses the greatest threat to pregnant women and children, especially to pregnant women and lactating women and children.
Long-term exposure of pregnant women may lead to fetal malformation or even death; Male contact inhalation can lead to male sperm deformity and death; Frequent contact with children will delay intellectual development and reduce memory.
For printed cross-stitch, if so many pigment particles are to be fixed on the fabric, the amount of formaldehyde must be tested by relevant state departments, but it is just printed cross-stitch on the market, and no enterprise has conducted quality appraisal, and no enterprise dares to do so.
-Using the principle of "color disappears in water" to answer "Why does the printed cross-stitch product dissolve color when washed with water" is simply a wrong answer.
At present, most of the printed cross-stitch on the market is digital printing, using water-soluble and nontoxic dye ink.
Because water-soluble dyes have no affinity with chemical fiber fabrics, they are easily washed off with water.
Before digital printing, the fabric needs pretreatment, and the pretreatment slurry does not contain formaldehyde at all. The main purpose of pretreatment is to lock the ink droplets on the surface of chemical fiber and ensure the fineness of the balls.
The second disadvantage: the fabric is basically chemical fiber products. Only when the chemical fiber fabric is washed can the color fall off. If it is a pure cotton fabric, the color can't be washed clean, and a large number of pigment particles are embedded in the fiber.
It is easy to be allergic to skin, but chemical fiber products can't contact human skin for a long time. Chemical fiber thread and chemical fiber fabric will produce long-term electrostatic field during embroidery, which will do great harm to the user's reproductive system, nervous system and endocrine system. Chemical fiber products that have been exposed to skin for a long time are also carcinogens.
Therefore, the printed cross-stitch we saw in the market all claimed to be "ecological cotton", and the relevant national quality appraisal institutions did not say "ecological cotton".
The best way to identify "ecological cotton" is to cut a small piece and light it. You will find that the burning state is as easy to identify as burning a plastic bag.
-It's pseudoscience.
Wearing a sweater will also produce an electrostatic field, which is worn every day. According to the author's shocking point of view, are sweaters also carcinogens and should have been banned long ago? Many of the clothes we wear are also made of chemical fiber, and many of them are in direct contact with the skin, such as T-shirts. Shouldn't it have been turned off long ago? Static electricity does occur in the process of embroidery, but it has not reached the point where the author is alarmist.
The third disadvantage: it takes a long time for faded printing and dyeing pigments to contact the skin directly to complete a cross-stitch finished product, and in this process, we should pay attention not to let the fabric contact water, even the sweat on our hands.
Without knowing it, after many days of embroidery, many consumers suddenly found that the colors in some places had been mixed together, so they had to wash them in advance before continuing embroidery, and some consumers gave up embroidery on their own initiative.
This is because the sweat stains on the hands will dissolve formaldehyde when the hands touch the cloth for a long time, which will cause damage to the skin of the hands and cause the color of the cloth to fall off.
-Fading has nothing to do with formaldehyde, but is determined by the water solubility of dyes in ink.
This is why the bags sold by merchants still have drawings, just in case.
The fourth shortcoming: reducing the value of finished products The main reasons for the high market price of cross-stitch finished products are: 1, and the work itself has artistic value; 2. Embroiderers themselves spend too much time and cost; 3. The materials have the quality of long-term collection; Printing cross-stitch greatly reduces the value of 2 and 3, which makes the finished product close to mass production, invisibly reduces the value of the finished product embroidered by consumers, which is unfavorable to consumers themselves and the whole industry.
The greatest value of a work lies in its design. The length of embroidery does affect the value, but it is not decisive, because the labor cost is different.
As for the third point, it is the advantage of chemical fiber.
Chemical fiber has better anti-aging performance than cotton and other natural fibers.
The fifth drawback: boring and industrialized cross-stitch is popular all over the country, because people who embroider cross-stitch are addicted to it, because they seek self-satisfaction in a stitch and a thread, conquer territory in a grid, and draw their favorite patterns in a completely blank space. This is an unusual experience.
Calico cross-stitch ignores the most essential value of cross-stitch and makes this life boring, industrialized and utilitarian, so it is natural that it will be gradually eliminated by the market.
Digitalization can make more designs quickly realized, and more personalized designs can be produced in small batches.