Yarn Dyed Fabric

The Yarn Dyed Fabric website is a textile guide that has been designed to help members of the textile industry and fashion industry learn more about yarn dyed fabric.

Learn more about yarn dyed fabric from this new fabric website.

You can also learn more about other fabric websites that have recently been developed from our previous blog post about new fabric websites.

woven fabric

The Woven Fabric website is a textile guide that has been designed to help members of the textile industry and fashion industry learn more about Woven Fabric.

Learn more about Terry Fabric from this new fabric website.

You can also learn more about other fabric websites that have recently been developed from our previous blog post about new fabric websites.

Velour Fabric

The Velour Fabric website is a textile guide that has been designed to help members of the textile industry and fashion industry learn more about Velour Fabric.

Learn more about Terry Fabric from this new fabric website.

You can also learn more about other fabric websites that have recently been developed from our previous blog post about new fabric websites.

Twill Fabric Website

The Twill Fabric website is a textile guide that has been designed to help members of the textile industry and fashion industry learn more about Twill Fabric.

Learn more about Terry Fabric from this new fabric website.

 

You can also learn more about other fabric websites that have recently been developed from our previous blog post about new fabric websites.

Terry Fabric

The Terry Fabric website is a textile guide that has been designed to help members of the textile industry and fashion industry learn more about Terry Fabric.

Learn more about Terry Fabric from this new fabric website.

Ringspun Cotton Website

The Ringspun Cotton website is a textile guide that has been designed to help members of the textile industry and fashion industry learn more about Ringspun Cotton.

Learn more about Ringspun Cotton.

Learn more about other fabric websites that have recently been developed.

Fabric Websites

Here are a few new fabric websites that you may want to investigate.

Ringspun Cotton

Terry Fabric

Twill Fabric

Velour Fabric

Woven Fabric

Yarn Dyed Fabric 

The above new fabric websites will hopefully help you learn more about ringspun cotton, terry fabric, twill fabric, velour, yarn dyed, and woven fabric.  You can also check out the FabricSearch.org website to find more fabric websites to choose from.

Low Costs Luring Indian Textile Makers to Bangladesh

Many Indian garment makers are shifting base or opening new units in neighbouring Bangladesh to take advantage of low labour cost and duty concessions on exports to US and European markets.

“Labour cost in Bangladesh is almost one-third of that in India. Average monthly labour cost in India is over Rs.7,000 per person, while it is just around Rs.2,500 in Bangladesh,” said D.K. Nair, secretary general of the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry.

“More than 35 Indian textile firms have opened factories in Bangladesh so far, most of them in the recent months,” Nair, who oversees the apex industry body for the $55-billion Indian textile industry, said.
Read more about Indian Textile Makers working with Bangladesh from the Economic Times article. 

Learn more about India fashion and textiles.

Possible Harsh Harvest Looms for Xinjiang Cotton Growers

Here is a cotton article summary from usa.chinadaily.com.cn. 
If you drive around Shihezi now, cotton harvest time, you will probably notice that the cotton fields look as if snow has just fallen.

However, the fields should also be filled with people picking cotton. In a few years machines will do much of the work but until then harvesting requires thousands of workers.

“I’ve been desperately looking for migrant cotton pickers at the railway and bus stations, but in vain,” cotton farmer Li Chunsheng said in September. On Sunday, he said nothing had changed.

Li, 53, cultivates four hectares of cotton in Manas county, Changji Hui autonomous prefecture. The county, about 17 kilometers from Shihezi, is the key production area for first-rate cotton in the northern part of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

The seasonal pickers “ask for higher pay this year, while the cotton price is lower than last year. We can’t make ends meet”, he said.
Read More:  Harsh Harvest Looms for Xinjiang Cotton Growers
Learn more about cotton on the Cotton Prices website.

Launch of high-performance UV absorber Tinuvin® 1600

Tinuvin^® 1600 is a novel UV absorber which provides extremely long-lasting UV protection to high-performance thermoplastics. It exhibits an outstanding UV absorption capacity resulting in minimal loss of optical properties for stringent weathering requirements. Very low volatility allows excellent processing characteristics. Tinuvin^® 1600 sets a new industry benchmark in ultra-high durability which cannot be achieved with current UV technologies.

Can this be used in the textile industry?  We better check with BASF.

GORE PYRAD Flame Retardant Technology Commercial Introduction

W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc., announces the commercial introduction of GORE® PYRAD™ Flame Retardant technology, a new laminate technology that offers an optimal combination of thermal / flashover burn protection, environmental protection, and comfort. GORE® PYRAD™ Flame Retardant is a durably bonded laminate solution that allows manufacturers to integrate Flame Retardant (FR) performance into protective outerwear where traditional (non-FR) textiles, such as nylon and polyester, are used.

GORE® PYRAD™ Flame Retardant, when used in conjunction with nylon and polyester face fabrics (which are abrasion and pilling resistant), ensures durability and comfort while adding very little in terms of weight and water pickup. GORE® PYRAD™ Flame Retardant can be constructed with a wide range of fabric options in a variety of camouflage prints and colors that are notably more colorfast to light and laundry (than most traditional FR face textiles).
The first commercial applications incorporating GORE® PYRAD™ Flame Retardant are military outerwear and workwear such as in-weather protective clothing for oil & gas use. The technology is also currently being evaluated for use in handwear, footwear, tents/shelters and other applications, where fire retardation is essential.
GORE® PYRAD™ Flame Retardant offers highly efficient thermal protection per unit weight and demonstrates excellent flame and burn performance in Pyroman (ASTM F 1930) testing, and retains this feature, even after contamination of fuels, oils and lubricants. Garments made with GORE® PYRAD™ Flame Retardant also exhibit best-in-class mechanical integrity after flashover exposure with very low shrinkage and no break-open.

This fabric is manufactured by W. L. Gore & Associates.   If you are not familiar with W.L. Gore & Associates, here is a brief profile summary.  Gore is a leading manufacturer of thousands of advanced technology products for the electronics, fabrics, industrial and medical markets. Perhaps best known for its waterproof and breathable GORE-TEX® fabric, the company’s portfolio features a diverse array of innovations, including everything from guitar strings to life-saving cardiovascular devices. Gore is headquartered in Newark, Del., and employs 9,000 associates in 30 countries worldwide. It is one of a select few companies to appear on all of the U.S. “100 Best Companies to Work For” lists since the rankings were introduced in 1984.  You can read more about the company at http://www.wlgore.com.

Learn more about flame retardant fabric on Apparel Search in the textile directory section.  In addition, you can learn more about various fabrics from the fabric search website.

Reflective Fabric Guide

Reflective fabric is utilized typically as a function of safety.  Reflective fabrics can also be utilized as an element of design, but most often it is used for the function of safety.  If you plan to produce clothing with reflective properties, we suggest you check out the new reflective fabric guide which is located at ReflectiveFabric.org

Printed Fabric Guide

This past week a new textile website was launched called the Printed Fabric website.  This site is essentially a printed fabric guide.  This means that the site helps guide you to various information and resources about printing fabrics, printed apparel, and places to find such product.  For example, the site provides a method to find fabric manufacturers, distributors, and retailers.  The site is still under development and will have further improvements in the near future.  This new textile printing website can be found at www.PrintedFabric.org

Linton Tweeds Direct

Linton Tweeds fabrics are of the highest quality, all of them being designed and woven at the mill in Carlisle. They are textured, novelty woven fabrics made with virtually all yarn types and weaving techniques. Unique fancy yarns sourced from all over the world are combined to produce sumptuous, elegant fancy tweeds suitable for ladies jackets, skirts and coats. "Linton Direct" enables you to buy fabric online; you can purchase famous Linton Tweeds woven fancy fabrics by mail order, so if you can't travel to visit them in Carlisle, Cumbria (near the Lake District) you can still view samples and buy classic Linton material for ladies-wear from the comfort of your home. Whether you are home-sewer, dressmaker, designer, undertaking a bespoke sewing course or tailoring course, or a fashion student, they have the couture dressmaking fabric for you to create your own unique Ladies wear fashion garment.

Learn more at Linton Tweeds Direct.

Learn more about fabrics at the new fabric search website.

What is the difference between velvet and velour?

Velvet is a woven backed fabric with the cut pile, no stetch.
Velour is a knit fabric with the cut pile, stretchy.

Learn more about velour fabric.
You may also want to read the velvet and velour definitions on Apparel Search.

Thermochromic Dyeing - heat activated color changing

Have you ever seen t-shirts that change color in the sun light?  I have seen them for several years but never knew the official method behind the amazing product.  The method is called Thermochromic Dyeing.

• Thermochromic Dyeing (heat activated color changing)

According to Wikipedia September 2011, "Thermochromism is the ability of substance to change color due to a change in temperature. A mood ring is an excellent example of this, but it has many other uses such as baby bottles (changes to a different color when cool enough to drink) and kettles. Thermochromism is one of several types of chromism. The two basic approaches are based on liquid crystals and leuco dyes. Liquid crystals are used in precision applications, as their responses can be engineered to accurate temperatures, but their color range is limited by their principle of operation. Leuco dyes allow wider range of colors to be used, but their response temperatures are more difficult to set with accuracy."  Read the full definition at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermochromism.

Learn more about textiles and textile dyeing on Apparel Search.

If you are looking for a manufacture to help you dye textiles, try the textile dyeing and finishing section.

About Poplin Fabric

This month a new textile website has been launched to help members of the textile industry and clothing industry learn more about poplin fabrics.  The site is simply called Poplin Fabric and can be located at PoplinFabric.org

If you would like to learn more about poplin fabric, you can check out the new site.

You may also want to read the poplin fabric definition at the Apparel Search website.

Textile and Fabric Blog

Welcome to the new textile and fabric blog.  The purpose of this blog is to assist members of the fashion industry and the textile industry.  If you have suggestions regarding topics for future blog posts, please do not hesitate to let us know.

To get things started, I will post a link to one of my favorite textile resources.

Learn more about textiles and fabric.

More textile blogs will follow soon...