What is the difference between canvas and silk?

Silk cloth is made of silk, which is soft and divided into three colors: pure white, dumb white and gray.

Canvas can be divided into linseed oil canvas, pure cotton canvas, chemical fiber (polyester) canvas, cotton and linen (55% hemp, 45% cotton) canvas and other canvas materials.

2. Different roles

Canvas is a kind of cloth used to paint oil paintings. It is coated with a specific cloth base to prevent oil, solvent and water from penetrating. Coated cloth for painting, photography, indoor and outdoor advertising, light boxes, etc. Also called canvas. The materials for making hand-painted canvas are mainly tight and flat cotton canvas and linen. Chemical fiber cloth is extremely smooth, suitable for inkjet printing and printing.

Silk fabrics are widely used and can be seen everywhere in life. Buildings can be used as interior decoration, and advertisements can be used as hanging pictures, artistic photos, wedding photos and so on. Because silk fabric is flexible and delicate, and has good photosensitive effect, most wedding photography industries use this material as a souvenir for newly married women.

3, the performance is different

Flaxseed oil canvas has high strength, low elongation, corrosion resistance, mildew resistance, dirt resistance and quick moisture dissipation. Linen fabric is a traditional excellent canvas substrate with stable size and storage resistance. According to the different methods of making hemp fiber, there are bright yellow warm water hemp (soaked in water) and blue gray dew retting (exposed by wind, rain and frost in the field). Because the texture is rough and hairy, it is not suitable for inkjet printing.

Silk cloth can also be called silver carved cloth or high-gloss white canvas. The material is bright, flexible and shiny, with high particle density and almost no holes.

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