Textile Articles

Traditional hand work, which rely mainly on orders from abroad, have become the latest victims of the global economic downturn, as workshops being shut down, businesses going bust, and workers losing jobs. In many villages the collapse of these crafts has become intertwined with the life of local people.



Fibre2fashion has taken initiative to highlight "Effect of Global Downturn on Handloom and Handicraft Industry" by taking views from people involve in this business and from association who ar...
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At £6,078 million in 2004, fashion exports have remained reasonably steady over the past few years (£5,818 million in 2002). Industry experts have predicted that UK clothing companies will have to position themselves into one of three categories in order to compete and survive in the world market:
Niche manufacturers, supplying low-volume, high-value products.
Balanced suppliers, having a UK manufacturing base for sampling and small-batch, but sourcing larger orders to overseas manufacturers....
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Developments in textiles are advancing with fierce intensity. Application areas stretch far beyond the traditional, trained more on spacewalks than the flashbulbs of the catwalk. Tomorrow’s textiles are intelligent, interactive and in all likelihood not developed in a western country near you. The BRIC countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China stand ready to move to sixth gear and, due to enormous financial resources and increasingly higher expertise in the field, can skip development ph...
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Our selection of news articles is intended to provide additional insight into the development of the Textile industry in emerging economies.
2008-11-29

Romania: Textile industry strongly hit by slumping demand

Romania’s textiles industry is strongly affected by slumping global demand. In less than one year, the textiles industry lost 53,000 jobs, and the staff s...
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Introduction
Scope and methodology
Technological and organizational developments
Empirical evidence from country case studies
The experience of Japan and the Asian NIEs
Emerging issues
Notes

Implications for Asian women

Pavla Jezkova1

Introduction

This chapter is a summary of a recently completed study by UNIDO which combines inputs from research with commissioned studies covering technology changes in the textile and garment industries worldwide, plus three country surveys followed by seminars in Bang...
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Types of Weaves 
Types of weaves have often been mistaken for types of fabrics. Each different fiber content advances towards the hand and drape of the fabric. The most common type of weaves have been described in this section.

Plain 
• Most simple and most common type of construction 
• Inexpensive to produce, durable 
• Flat, tight surface is conducive to printing and other finishes 
• Method of Construction: 
• Each filling yarn goes alternately under and over the warp yarns 
Comm...
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  Water can play a major role in the transmission of enteric infections, and virtually all of the agents that cause travellers' diarrhea may be present in contaminated water. Anywhere that trekkers are able to travel these days, people live or travel higher up; all ground water should be assumed to be contaminated. I feel strongly that travellers wishing to avoid diarrhea should not consume untreated water. Var...

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Industrial Effluent Treatment Plant Design

Our principal consultant, Seán Moran has designed many Water and Effluent treatment plants, in a number of industrial sectors. He has a detailed knowledge of pharmaceutical and fine chemical industry effluents, but has experience in all sectors including food and drink, bulk chemicals, container washing plant, solvent production, engineering facilities (including coolant treatment), breweries and distilleries, paper and glass veil manufacture, electr...
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Laundary Tips
• Organising & sorting
• Washing
• Drying
Tips on organising & sorting
• Organise your laundary by sorting color. It helps to keep whites, darks, and
medium colors together. Lighter garments can pick up dyes from darker colors.
• Sort delicate fabrics and loose knits from "tougher" fabrics.
• Its is always good to separate man-made fabrics, like polyester from natural fibers
such as cotton. Man-made fibers can attract the oils that are released from natural
fibers during washi...
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Fire Safety

Textiles, carpets and all other products made from fibers will burn if subjected to

the right conditions. Depending on the physical size, orientation and chemical nature of
the fibers, differences may occur in such important fire characteristics as ease of ignition,
rate of flame spread, and heat release.

Factors Affecting Fiber Flammability

How easily does a fire start, and how rapidly will it gr...

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