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our new website

We’ve got a new look for our website, and a new way to place your orders. 

We thought it was about time we revamped our old website with a fresh new look. We hope you’ll love it as much as we do!

It’s been a while in the planning, as our developers had been listening to the concerns our customers had reported when uploading orders. Now, we hope you’ll find our new Place Order page much easier to use. Less form filling too!

To launch our new website we have a great ‘giveaway’ on offer. That’s 4m of our gorgeous quality printing on a fabric of your choice, free.* When you’re next on social media find our ‘giveaway’ link and please start sharing.

*excludes Bureau Time, Postage & Packaging & VAT.

How To Enter:

Follow the Silk Bureau, like and save this post and share it to your story tag #thesilkbureau and @thesilkbureau, once you’ve done this make sure to comment ‘Let’s get printing’. Tag your friends in the comments to let them know about our giveaway.

We’d love to hear what you think of our new website and the new way of ordering. Please drop us an email with your feedback.

Our ‘giveaway’ is free to enter.

The winner will receive 4m of printing on a fabric of their choice. The free printing and fabric excludes Bureau Time, Postage & Packaging and VAT.

One winner will be randomly selected from those who have Liked and Followed The Silk Bureau; Liked the post on social media; Shared the post and tag #thesilkbureau and @thesilkbureau; Comment “let’s get printing’.

The ‘giveaway’ will run throughout June 2021. Entries are accepted until 1st July 2021.

The winner will be notified and announced on 2nd July 2021.

The winner must submit their own artwork in print-ready condition. See our FAQs page for help if needed.

The ‘giveaway’ is not open to employees, friends or relatives of employees of The Silk Bureau Ltd.

All orders placed are subject to the availability of the fabrics selected.

The Silk Bureau Limited reserve the right to refuse an order without discussion.

 

 

 

Printing Scarves

Shrinkage

The processes involved in digital textile printing causes the original fabric to shrink. If you are printing scarves, the size of the finished product will be important to you. For example, if you have square artwork, you will be expecting your finished scarf to be square!

To get the printed fabric closer to the size you need, all fabric intended for scarves must go through an extra step to reshape it. Please allow extra time on your deadlines to allow for this process. 

Let us introduce you to the …

Stenter

The stenter is an enormous piece of machinery that has many uses, including coating our fabrics and reshaping scarf orders.

After travelling through a solution to soften the fabric, it then passes over a flat bed, gripped on the selvedge edges to pull it back into shape. 

It’s a long and precise process that needs to be carefully monitored.

Shrinkage Disclaimer

If you have selected to use our hemming service, we will check the stentered fabric for you before we begin to finish your scarves. If you are not using our service, it’s up to you to check the size BEFORE you cut out the individual scarves from the fabric length. We cannot re-size after your scarves have been cut out.