[Common textile manual] gold and silver wire

Overview

The line made of gold and silver and its imitations. Both gold and silver have excellent ductility. In ancient China, this kind of ductility was used to make gold and silver into thin slices, cut them into thin strips, and processed them into threads by means of pasting or core-wrapping. Such gold and silver threads are mostly used to make fine costumes for emperors or nobles. With ornaments. The gold and silver wires used today are mainly imitations. The production mainly uses polyester film as a substrate, and applies vacuum coating technology. A layer of aluminum is coated on the surface, and then a color coating layer and a protection layer are overlaid, and a thin strip is formed to form a gold-silver thread. Due to the different colors of the coating, various types of gold wire, silver wire, discolored wire, and multicolored gold and silver wire can be obtained. In production, it is necessary to grasp the consistency of the coating thickness, cut evenly, without cutting marks, choose a good process recipe, and improve the acid and alkali resistance of the wire and the resistance to soaping and washing.

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