This plain-woven cotton or cotton-blend fabric is constructed with a high thread count to create a smooth, uniform surface ideal for continuous roller or screen printing. Mills produce it in the greige state before sending it to converters who bleach and print it. The tight weave prevents dyes from bleeding, ensuring crisp patterns for garments and quilting.
We need a finer printcloth for this floral run, because the current batch is bleeding at the edges of the motif.
While often confused with broadcloth, printcloth usually has a slightly lower thread count and is engineered specifically to hold crisp printed motifs rather than solid dyes.
Also heard as
- print cloth
Related terms
Plain-woven
Constructed using the simplest over-one, under-one interlacing of warp and weft threads.
Greige
Describing woven or knitted fabric that has not yet been bleached, dyed, or finished.
Cotton
A soft, staple textile fiber grown in bolls around the seeds of the cotton plant.
Piece goods
Woven or knitted fabrics manufactured and sold in standard lengths.