Reflective Fabric VS Reflective Fabric Spray

Reflective fabric spray is a kind of paint, which can make your cloth reflective under the light emissions, it looks like the reflective fabric. Reflective fabric spray can be sprayed on your garment before you join the activity at night such as night running and night biking, its function is to enhance your visibility in a poor light environment the same as the retro-reflective fabric. Here I will show you the difference between retro-reflective fabric and reflective fabric spray.

Reflective fabric spray

The reflective fabric spray is a kind of water-based spray, its effect is not permanent, it will decompose in about 1 week on average.

Besides spray on the cloth, the reflective fabric also can be sprayed on the body to make a tattoo, it will show transparent at daylight, but show fluorescent silver under the lighting emissions.

Thus, reflective fabric spray is suitable for part, and night activity to keep the wearer eye-catching and high visibility.

But for long-term activity at night, you’d better use reflective tape iron on the clothing, or wear the casual reflective clothing, printed reflective fabric clothing. Anyway, the reflective fabric product can keep your reflective effect for years, not only a week.

Retro-reflective fabric

Compare with the reflective fabric spray, the retro-reflective fabric has a long-term reflective effect, it has certain reflective parameters about washing instruction, reflective coefficient, reflective color, and applications.

Reflective fabric can be used for casual fashion clothing or professional reflective clothing.

The reflective fabric for casual fashion garments covers various types, it is not only sliver reflective fabric, but it also allows many colors to retro-reflective fabric even has designed,  such as printed reflective fabric, rainbow reflective fabric, reflective heat transfer vinyl, HTV screen printing vinyl, iron-on reflective vinyl,

The professional reflective fabric tapes are generally tapes, sewed on the clothing to make the firefighter clothing and traffic police work clothing. 

The professional reflective fabrics are reflective tapes, always packaged as roll by roll. The replacements of professional reflective tapes are anti-flame reflective tape and T/C reflective tapes.

This type of retro-reflective fabric has a high requirement in reflective effect and reflective time, thus the professional reflective tapes almost only two colors: silver and orange. These two colors can keep the reflective effect well, especial for silver reflective tape, it is the original color after aluminizing. If other colors, we need to do some treatment to change the original color, which will decrease the retro-reflective effect.

In a summary, the reflective fabric can be used for making some clothing or shoes for a long-term working or long-term activity, mainly used for long-term personal safety. And the reflective fabric spray is suitable for some temporary activity, festival, or part, can be used for temporary personal safety and personalized bomb stickers.