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2018-10-01
Textile professionals have been using fabric finishing techniques almost since the beginning of time. However, in the last few years, the purpose and sophistication of these finishes has shifted. "For a long time, people tried to use different fibers or fiber types to affect how fabric is...
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2018-08-01
Since the days of Leonardo da Vinci’s groundbreaking work on the effects of lighting on color in the late 1400s, artists, designers, colorists, and scientists alike have contributed to a large body of work on the topic. This work ultimately led to the establishment by the International Commission...
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2020-12-01
As an industry, we’ve barely gotten our feet wet with Textile Industry 4.0, and now Textile Industry 5.0 is on the horizon! According to experts at Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA), the development of functional fiber computing solutions will likely be the basis for moving us into...
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2019-08-01
How effective is your color management strategy? For many in the textiles and apparel industry using conventional manufacturing processes, consistent color management is a given. In fact, in textiles, color accuracy is quite stringent. In the graphic arts, a Delta E of “one”—the point at which...
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2020-08-01
One thing the coronavirus pandemic highlighted is shortcomings in our global supply chains. Post-pandemic, how much effort will be applied to rethinking how we source, manufacture, and distribute? For some time now, there have been relatively limited efforts at near-shoring work in the textiles...