November 1 to 6, “Hermes crafts festival held in the first floor lobby of the Hang Lung Plaza Hermes store before. To cope with this event, the showcase of the new season of the Hermes store is also unique: with numerous handicrafts must coil and measuring tape bonded together to build a backdrop to showcase scarves, watches, and other new products.
Hall’s small in size, the symbol of “silk” orange and black steel bars linger into the curved ceiling. Tools arranged in the pattern printed on the white carpet handicrafts must, scattered in different corners of a few different sizes of the workbench, subtly heighten the atmosphere of the traditional handicrafts scene.
The exhibition is small, only show part of the process of each product, process, assembling mechanical watches with a a line sewing tie and the shirt button, for example, set with diamonds, sewing purses processes. In the production process, you see just one small part of the entire production process can only rely on the imagination.
But the pleasant surprise is that the whole exhibition hall booth demo scarves dyeing process, but also the most important stereotype technology. Hundreds of thousands or even tens of thousands of Hermes scarf seems to be astronomical, but if you understand the course of its production, and perhaps you will think it is good value for money.
With 2 years to produce a new scarf
The design drawings consuming 6 months
The day of the show just a part of the entire towel-making process – mesh offset printing technology, printing master wearing a white gown with skillfully pigment down in a mesh registering, and then with a brush will pave the pigment, the pigment by transparent part of the penetration into silk.
Department of Hermes belt, a Frenchman with a Hermes watch explain in detail scarf made every program, printing stage crowded with curious spectators, at any time to ask any questions.
However, before printing, and is followed by many processes, Hermes scarf production starting from the design pattern has been to become finished 2 years time.
The Hermes headquarters of a total of more than 40 artists from different countries designs, such as France, the United States, Switzerland, Germany, there is only a Chinese artist Ding Yi. Different countries and cultures, will produce different artistic inspiration, thereby ensuring a scarf Hermes tells a different story.
Hermes will be the subject of their own scarves annually, then the artist based on the theme of creation, in the process of creation, Hermes will make some of their own ideas, such as color, quality, pattern structure. Designs exclusively for Hermes scarf, but the intellectual property of the site pattern designers own designs process takes six months time.
Stereotype – the most complicated processes
After the completion of the design drawings, the drawings of the Paris headquarters will the Lyon factory, and then start the second step – rigid. The same day, the rear ramp of the dyeing station, a 41-year-old female chef ongoing stereotype. Her golden hair, face slightly wrinkles, but the large, bright blue eyes her spirited, because it really is a test of eyesight live. Although she is not technical education, but the love of handmade let her become one of the stereotypical division of Hermes.
The so-called rigid pattern will be designed on the drawing by restructuring the way the performance of a printed board, the number of colors produced many kinds of stereotypes. Rigid process is very complicated, very difficult. The the rigid master first carefully study the paintings of the designer, to find the designers are trying to say, and then the the complete pattern manifested silk above, the actual operation up and need a lot of mental and physical.
Rigid master with the naked eye to distinguish carefully the original paintings on the number of colors, each detail must have manifested. For example, the most complex of human physiognomy there are a dozen colors. I saw the female stereotype master electric pen in transparent board gently slide, different patterns will be presented.
Hermes color library has 75,000 kinds of discoloration
Exhibition scene hanging the Hermes scarf dozens of different colors and patterns, for huge Hermes scarf pattern and color library, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Toner team in Lyon, Hermes, Hermes launched 20 new models every year, divided into spring and summer and autumn and winter are around the same theme, the 2012 theme is “time”.
Palette master work is based on a pattern in the annual release of 20 new patterns were designed more than 15 kinds of different color schemes. The then Paris palette Committee selected 10 kinds optimal solution in 15 kinds of programs. The entire screening process last two months time. When the decision of the 10 best programs, Hermes will release ten new products. Hermes stores worldwide manager will gather in Paris, the order in accordance with the demand of the region, Hermes production is based on customer demand.
Of course, all the colors are produced in Hermes factory, these pigments are finely ground powder, 70% of the ingredient is water, then the ingredients were heated. Simultaneously modulated pigment next to modulation of natural rubber composition, and this gum is collected from small trees from Pakistan or India, the toner when the the process secret is modulated in different proportions of these pigments. Modulated by the different ratio is different in color, the the Hermes color library far have 75000 different discoloration.
300 butterfly behind a scarf
The Hermes silk is obtained from a Brazilian butterfly cocoon, butterfly production of 300 eggs each time, and then produce 300 silkworm silk become cocoons.
The 300 egg has lost 300 butterfly qualifications, their mission is to be made a party to Hermes scarf. To make a 90 × 90 cm scarf takes 300 cocoons, 300 450 km silk cocoons can be made.
1500 meters of silk can be withdrawn in a cocoon, a surge of sturdy silk bunched up into a large number of silk decimated, and then on the textile and car, the two strands woven in a diagonal way.
Hermes scarf in different sizes, 45 multiplied by 45 is placed in bags of towels in the men’s pockets, there is 70 multiplied by 70 cm, but the most common 90 multiplied by 90 cm, the largest size is 140 multiplied by 140, in addition to triangular. A Hermes scarf color about 30 species the easiest day display 15 colors, the most complex of 46 colors. Artificial dyeing every day mistakes, such as some of the dust will fall on the silk, the plate is not transferred to the correct location.
Printed scarf label, from 1-100. Steam wash then dry color fixing, the last step is to use the French curling from the anti-Faced Volume 1 cm curling after pass quality inspection before shipping to stores.
