Hi friends!
We have just joined the creating community and hoping to find an answer on here.
We would like to laser a design onto fabric and can see that the listed materials for laser etching does include fabric, however the helpful table of settings doesn’t actually include fabric.
Would anyone here be able to help with suggesting settings for the laser to etch an image onto fabric such as a tea towel or handkerchief?
Many thanks in advance.
Welcome to the forums. I don’t have a suggestion, other than make a test image with varying levels of gray and use it as a test.
I made a test pattern like this in Lightburn with varying speed and power, don’t know what Luban can do:
Thanks for the suggestion Brent!
I’ll do something similar and play around and hopefully can build a guide to use from there.
Hi brent113. Any chance you’d be willing to share the gcode file for that test pattern?
Sure, but this was a Lightburn file really intended on being tweaked for a given test run, which is why the numbers are arbitrary 1 through 10. It’s really quite easy and good practice to create something like that on your own.
Material Test Grid.zip (39.9 KB)
The rendered gcode I’m not comfortable sharing as it was specifically narrowly tweaked for the particular material I was running on, and would not be a good general test pattern.
Hi Jutt369, I have this same question. Did you discover good settings for fabric (ie; tea-towels)? If so, please share you settings and result.
Thanks!
Hi Amanda,
I’m still playing with settings. The original idea was for a present and then the holiday period stalled my testing but will be trying a few more things soon.
No luck yet with cotton or other lightweight materials as even the lowest settings that give a visible result weaken the fibers too much so they end up ripping.
Going to try thicker materials next with different settings. fingers crossed
