Fabrics for apparel and furnishing

Cotton weave types

Welsh fabric

Textile industry Analysis

Gold stretch fabric

Grab the golden ticket with this crinkled foil print that gives the illusion of defined peaks and valleys forming a faux metallic surface. Along with the enticing image digitally implemented onto its surface, this material was produced in Mexico on Italian looms; thus providing the supreme quality brought forth with this unbelievably soft polyester neoprene. For those who are…

Silkworms silk production

Credit: ACS (Phys.org)—A team of researchers at Tsinghua University in China has found that adding graphene or carbon nanotubes to the food eaten by silkworms causes them to produce silk that is stronger than normal. In their paper published in Nanoletters , the team describes the approach they took and what was revealed when they tested the new kind of silk. Silk is highly…

What is Knit fabric?

At my family’s sewing reunion this summer, my sister ran into a sewing hurdle I couldn’t begin to help her with. She’s an experienced sewist, especially when it comes to knits, but serging the seams of her Lane Raglan just wasn’t working. She was using a lovely, soft French terry she purchased from The Fabric Store on our first trip to LA together. It was a thick knit fabric…

What fabric breathes best?

Summer can be tough for the sewer: You have to make do without about half the range of fabrics available. Because past a certain temperature, wool and polyester are not a possibility anymore. Choosing the fabric for your next sewing project becomes not only about fashion but about functionality as well. When wool, blends and tightly-woven jersey become unbearable to wear in…

Silk industry information

The motif for the Fall 2012 collection emerged from the quest to create new dreams after mourning the loss of the old. Dreams’ powerful imagery impacts the inner and outer worlds. The integration of mind, body, and soul translates into apparel that employs ancient craftsmanship in fresh and novel textures and shapes. With its tapestry of cultures and a kaleidoscope of faiths…

Viscose quality

Viscose or Rayon is what is known as a manmade fabric. This is different to synthetic fabric in that it is made from plant based material. Rather than being spun and woven like natural fabrics such as cotton and linen, the plant is treated with chemicals before being made into a weavable fibre. As a result the fabric has the breathable qualities seen in natural fabrics but…

Production of textile industry in India

India’s textile industry has a long history of being a mainstay of the economy’s global trade linkages. It was, after all, the English East India Company’s focus on trade of cotton and silk from India that made it one of the richest and most powerful corporations in the 18th century. Today, India has the second largest manufacturing capacity in textiles globally and accounts…

What types of fabric?

Went to International Silks and Woolens to buy fabric for a dress. However there is s much fabric in the store that I was so overwhelmed. I avoided getting help as if I was avoiding the plague because I just could not even narrow down what type of fabric I wanted. the colors and pattern in this fabric caught my eye, but it was a sheer fabric so really what would I do with it?…

Viscose Clothing

H&M and Zara/Inditex Partner with Canopy to Transform Clothing’s Impacts on Species, Forests and Climate Vancouver, BC: April 2, 2014 — Today, the world’s two largest clothing brands are making commitments to eliminate ancient and endangered forests from all of their rayon and viscose clothing. The companies, retail and design leaders H&M and Zara/Inditex, developed…