Airbrush effects

This is the age of special effects - be it in a Harry Potter movie or on your fabric. The in vogue, airbrush effect, sure ignites the imagination

According to the latest fashion trend CHT has developed various products for individual designs on fabrics with glitter, metal, colour and flock effects by means of spray application. With a spray gun, textiles can be easily and individually designed with artistic licence.

Bleaching with chlorine bleaching

Spray chlorine bleaching onto the jeans. After waiting a short while (5-20 minutes, depending on the concentration and the desired degree of bleaching) the bleached fabrics are washed and neutralised.

Designs full of contrasts can be produced by applying a resisting agent (e.g. Transprint SC 11) before the bleaching process.

White airbrush

Printperfekt SPL 70 is a ready for use product for producing sprayed areas or creases. It may be coloured with pigment dyestuffs in order to achieve coloured spray effects on dark substrates.

Printperfekt SPL 70 is applicable with 1 component use but if necessary Tubassist Fix 102 W may be added to improve the fastness level.

Fixation terms:

130-150°C, 8-5 minutes.

For a fixation between 20-80°C the addition of 3 per cent Tubassist Fix 104 W is required.

GLITTER

Tubvinyl 238 SPL is a ready for use adhesive system for producing glitter and flock effects.

Recipe recommendation:

TUBVINLY 238 SPL

5 per cent Colormatch GLF

2 per cent Tubassist Fix 102 W

Fixation terms:

130-150°C, 8-5 minutes.

For a fixation at 20-80°C

3 per cent Tubassist Fix 104 W may be applied if necessary.

FLOCK

For flock effects a sufficient adhesive layer is important. After spraying on the adhesive the flock fibres are shot into the adhesive layer still being wet by means of an electrostatic flock device. Afterwards, the adhesive must be dried and fixed.

After the fixation we recommend a cleaning process (suck off, wash) to remove excess flock fibres.

Interesting two colour effects are achieved by additionally dyeing Tubvinyl 238 SPL with Colormatch GLF Glitter. In the edge areas with spray mist there is not enough adhesive to anchor the flock fibres. Therefore, the glitter effects become visible in these areas.

PERMANENT CREASES

We recommend to spray the following onto the jeans to provide them with permanent creases:

56 per cent water

35 per cent Tubifast BN 35

4 per cent Tubingal MUG

5 per cent Tubassist Fix 104 W

Those areas where the permanent creases are to be produced are sprayed thoroughly with this solution. The desired creases are then formed with a bent aluminium tube and dried for either 1-2 days at room temperature or for 30-90 minutes at 80°C and fixed afterwards for 5 minutes at 150°C.

These creases can be additionally sprayed with Printerfekt SPL 70 and colour to increase the effect.

PEARL EFFECT

Coloured spray effects with a slightly metal gloss can be achieved by spraying Printperfekt Perl onto fabrics.

Printperfekt Perl must be diluted with 10 per cent Tubassist KAT 107 W to adjust the viscosity. With the use of 0-4 per cent pigment different colour variations can be produced.

We recommend to use 2-4 per cent Tubassist Fix 102 X.

Fixation temperature:

130-150°C, 8-5 minutes.

SUEDE SURFACE

Printperfekt EX TS is a foam paste which can be sprayed after being diluted. The achieved surface has a suede-like character and is wash fast up to 60°C.

Recipe recommendation:

Printperfekt EX TS

10 per cent Tubassist KAT 107 W

10 per cent water

2 per cent Tubassist Fix 102 W

0-5 per cent pigment dyestuff

Foaming is carried out at temperatures above 150°C for 5 minutes.

GLASS BEAD ADHESIVE

Glass beads are also top fashion but so far, they have been hard to realise. This is no longer a problem with the special adhesive Tubvinyl 237 GP for the wash fast furnishing of all kinds of textiles with glass beads. Print Tubvinyl 237 GP, sprinkle on glass beads and fix. The effects are wash fast up to 40°C.

METAL FOIL EFFECT

Texmetal Bond is a sprayable transfer adhesive for bonding metal foils. If necessary, Texmetal Bond can be diluted with up to 10 per cent water and is then sprayed onto the jeans by means of a spray gun. After drying (room temperature or 80°C, 5 minutes) the metal foil can be transferred by means of a transfer press.

Transfer conditions:

180°C, 20 seconds

After cooling down the residual foil is released. Metal oil prints are wash fast up to 40°C at the most.

Source: CHT