India is one of the major producer and exporters of textiles. The current value of the Indian textile market is $36 billion and it constitutes about 5% of the GDP. However its share in the total global textile trade is just 3.5%. Indian textile exports grew by 14% in 2004-05 over 2003-04. It is expected [...]
Garments that measure the heart rate have been on the market for some time. Made of intelligent textiles, those sensors stand out over other solutions with their excellent wearability, they are soft as textiles are.
Textile based sensors provide a much higher wearing comfort: everything you need to to is to put on a shirt. [...]
SD. La República Dominicana está en condiciones de utilizar telas mexicanas para manufacturar confecciones textiles y exportarlas libres de aranceles al mercado de Estados Unidos, dentro del marco del acuerdo de [...]
Eight jewellery and garment makers from Viet Nam will participate in an international exposition in Algeria, from Saturday until the following Friday. Around 2,000 enterprises from 40 countries will attend.
Organisers of the exhibition, Safex, said the event would feature enterprises from the US, France, Italy and Germany that had recorded high revenues with Algerian trade.
Other partners from
Cleaning your Oriental rugs is not necessarily difficult. Of course, all rugs will need a general cleaning, but how often will depend upon the heaviness of the walking traffic on it. Once a year, you will probably need to clean the whole rug.
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Buy : Century Textiles CMP : Rs 824 Target : Rs1017 & Rs 1200 Resistance at : 846 & 940 Stop Loss : Rs756 Bombay Dyeing stock price has gone up by about Rs 200 in the last couple of days. What is common between Bombay Dyeing and Century Textiles, except that both are textile companies. But it is a big folly to refer Century Textiles as a textile company. The promoters of the company must quickly change its name to Century Industries Ltd. The common factor in Bombay Dyeing and Century is that both are owning land at Worli. Century owns 40 acres of land with its staff colony on 10 acres and mill on 30 acres. Land of Century is better placed than that of Bombay Dyeing as it is towards Worli side where cost of premises is higher by about Rs 10,000 per sq. ft. 3 M
Interactive Textiles are not limited to control the iPod or other electronic devices but could also be useful for body-mapping garments as a project by Australians CSIRO Textile and Fibre Technology demonstrates.
The idea is as following: to help basketball players to find their ideal shot-making rhythm and motion the system plays a series of beats [...]
Un jarro con forma de hombre en la exposición 'Paracas, tesoros inéditos del Perú antiguo'
Objeto expuesto en el museo parisino del Quai Branly
De belleza y variedad cromática incomparables, los textiles de la cultura de Paracas-Necrópolis se exponen en el Museo del Quai Branly de París en una muestra excepcional a doble título.
Ante todo, porque los de Paracas son considerados unos de los más
In fibres and yarns, Teijin has developed a false-twist yarn with longlasting antistatic properties. Fiber Innovation Technology (FIT) is producing a new flame retardant fibre based on GE Plastics polyetherimide resin which meets strict regulations on flame retardance, smoke and toxicity and has good dyeability.Kufner has invented a novel stretchable yarn with electrical conductivity for heated car seats, and Nicca has come up with a technique for removing oligomers from polyester fibres. TrapTek has developed a new encapsulation technique which protects against the deactivation of performance enhancing particles during melt spinning.In fabrics, developments include a method for improving cleaning cloths and protective clothing used in industrial clean rooms, and a new material from Malden
Techtextil North America (TTNA), North America’s premier trade show for technical textiles and nonwovens, announced today that it is increasing the frequency of its trade show. The event, previously held only on even years in Atlanta, Ga., will now be held each year, alternating locations between Atlanta and a Western region site.This year’s event will be held April 1-3 at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta. The 2009 Techtextil North America is scheduled to take place at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas, April 21-23, 2009.“The Western region features a significant concentration of manufacturers and customers in important growth markets,” said David Audrain, president of Messe Frankfurt, USA. “By offering Techtextil North America annually in two U.S. regions, thi
Robe à la française Silk extended tabby (Gros de Tours) with liseré self-patterning and brocading in silver lamella and filé England (Spitalfields), Rococo, 1750s Gift of the Fashion Group Inc. of Toronto in memory of Gwen Cowley Man’s civil uniform...
Stretched fabric walls, lit from within, enclose a chiropractic clinic in Northeast Minneapolis in this design by LEAD Inc. architects of Minneapolis and Husnes, Norway. Photo credit: Banner Creations/LEAD Inc. Techno Textiles: Inner Space to Outer Space May 16-July 17,...
Over 30 dealers will offer quality vintage clothing, accessories, jewelry and textiles at the Danbury, CT, PAL on the weekend of April 5, 6, '08. Professionally managed by Cord Shows Ltd. (since 1970)DANBURY, CT, VINTAGE CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES, TEXTILES & JEWELRY SHOW/SALEDANBURY, CT…. Spring is the time for a new fashion season but for many people, new can mean used and recycled AND VINTAGE. The proof of this is when the Vintage Clothing, Accessories, Textiles and Jewelry Show and Sale returns for the 2nd year to the Police Athletic League Building, 25 Hayestown Road in Danbury, CT (06811). There will more than thirty booths brimming with yesterday’s styles, now today’s latest fashion. All ages and both men and women will find one of a kind items to make them stand out in a
The Industrial Fabrics Association International has announced its first international symposium in Germany: IFAI Advanced Textiles 2008, June 12-13, 2008, in Berlin.The goal of the symposium is to unveil market-ready innovations which open up new business horizons for U.S. and European companies, increasing and facilitating U.S.-European business cooperation for IFAI's international member companies.The 1.5-day symposium will present outstanding material developments and applications in the major areas of technical textiles. The conference will focus on the latest breakthrough solutions which also fill the practical, user-oriented daily requirements of the industry today. Topics to be covered include the major fabric application areas: from functional garments for lifestyle, active sports
Pua Kumbu is without a doubt an outstanding material culture of Sarawak. This woven art by the Ibans is well known for its exquisite patterns where designs are tied-and-dyed on vertical threads. Today, Pua Kumbu is not only woven as sarongs, carpets and decoration but even as clothes and overthrows.Other magnificent woven cloth of textile art in Sarawak is kain songket of the Malays. They are
The volume of retail sales (i.e. excluding price effects) increased by 3.9% in November 2007 compared to November 2006. There was a monthly decrease of 0.6%. If Motor Trades are excluded the annual increase was 5.5% and the monthly change was -0.1%.The value of retail sales increased by 6.2% in November 2007 compared to November 2006 and decreased by 0.2% in the month. However, if Motor Trades are excluded, the annual increase was 7.1% and the monthly change was +0.5%. October 2007 is the latest month for which final detailed figures are available.The three-month August 2007 – October 2007 volume figures show that, compared with the three months ending July 2007:• The largest increase in the volume of sales was in the Textiles and Clothing (+4.4%) sector.• The largest decrease in the
IntertechPira’s Smart and Intelligent Textiles Conference takes place coming Tuesday and Wednesday (Dec 11+12) in Prague.
This is the last event in 2007 about Wearable Electronic and Intelligent Textiles, enabling you to meet and network with experts as well as getting the latest insights from companies like The North Face, Navispace, The University of Reading, Finetex Technologies, BASF AG, Coatema AG to name a few.
Highly interesting will be the presentation from Angel Chang with her view of high fashion design and wearable technologies.
If you are around Prague this week or get a last minute ticket to Prague, the Smart and Intelligent Textiles Conference will be a interesting place - besides talk2myShirt - to be and catch up on the newest developments in the Smart and Intelligent Textiles business.
In case you haven’t heard of the last big event for Wearable Electronics in 2007: the Smart and Intelligent Textiles Conference held in conjunction with the Nanotextiles conference takes place in Prague between Dec. 10-12.
This 3 day event is organized by IntertechPira and brings together leading experts from fashion design, branding, research and manufacturing. More information about the conference can be found by follow this link.
A diverse mix of high profile speakers makes this conference the perfect meeting point, opening up opportunities to get the latest insights into Wearable Electronic and gives plenty of room for networking with the speaker and participants.
The Nanotextiles and Smart and Intelligent Textiles conference is just one month away and you might consider signing up to ensure a place in this high profile event.
We can offer you as special service in conjunction with IntertechPira a 15% discount on the conference fee if you quote ‘talk2myShirt’ dur
La belleza y complejidad de los textiles Paracas han significado una de las causas de la fascinación por esta cultura a lo largo de todo el mundo. Estas mismas características hacen que un tejido Paracas sea prácticamente indescriptible y su poco valor comparado a piezas de oro o plata los ha favorecido, pues se han logrado encontrar piezas intactas de gran tamaño que fueron despreciadas por los profanadores de tumbas.Haciendo historia:En la época preincaica peruana se desarrolla la Cultura Paracas entre los ríos Ica, Pisco y Rímac y en la península de Paracas, en la Región Ica. Tuvo dos etapas: Paracas Cavernas y Paracas Necrópolis.Paracas Cavernas: tiene una antigüedad que va desde el año 700 a.C. hasta el 200 a.CSus tejidos de este periodo, que se caracterizaron por ser de tipo geométrico y rígido, predominando la técnica de doble tela.Paracas Necrópolis: Los tejidos, caracterizados por su policromía, enigmáticos motivos y delicadeza en los bordados y diseños, co
E-textiles to monitor your health Virginia Tech (VT) researchers have been busy developing efficient e-textiles — electronic textiles and clothing with embedded wires and sensors — for six years now. Their computerized clothing can monitor your movements, sensing if you’re walking, running, standing, or sitting down. Of course, this kind of clothing has a wide range of applications. The Hokie Suit, which exists for 3 years, will lead to other garments which could measure when you’re about to fall and your location, heart rate, blood pressure, temperature and a variety of other statistics. As the researchers have been focused more on computer engineering than aesthetics, don’t expect to find e-clothing available in retail stores before several years. Source: feeds.feedburner.comBridge traffic powers its monitoring sensors Researchers at Clarkson University, NY, have developed wireless bridge sensors which work without batteries. Inst
Spunky table linens serve retro modernism in your kitchen or dining room. With individual textiles made to play together, each piece features a sunny flower graphic in a modern palette that includes seafoam, ochre and brown. Each piece is beautifully crafted in soft cotton. price: $12www.chiasso.com
I’d like to give you a heads up for the last major event of the Wearable Electronic year: the Smart and Inteligent Textiles Conference organized by Intertech Pira in Prague between Dec. 11-12.
If you can come a day earlier to Prague, you can hear how the latest developments in Nano technology will shape the future of textiles. The Nanotextiles Conference is on Dec. 10.
2007 has been an eventful year for Wearable Electronics. Many new products, think about the Solar bags that haven’t exists, save some exemptions, before 2007. A wide range of iPod ready Jackets for this season keeps your iPod save but accessible through your clothing.
The Smart and Intelligent Textiles Conference has diverse topics spanning the fashion world, represented by Angel Chang, Solar technology for Wearable Electronics as well as the view on Wearable Electronic from one of the biggest apparel and soft goods companies: The North Face.
Visiting this event will be an enrichment for everyone interested
The Textile International Forum and Exhibition we posted about a few days ago introduced another revolutionary textile technology: the Solar Textile after showing us the Textile Oven.
The Solar Power Textile is foldable and more suitable for integration into clothing than flexible solar panels used at the moment in many bags.
Having the softness of textiles, the use of such Solar Textiles do not pose any wear limitation for clothing.
Mr. Lin Cheng-chu, vice-director of the Weaving Research Department at the Taiwan Textile Research Institute (TTRI) explained: “In the near future, bags or jackets made with solar textiles will provide electricity for PDAs, cellphones or digital media players.”
Another revolutionary e-textile that comes out of the kitchen of TTRI is a foldable capacitor with similar properties in terms of integration into clothing as the solar textile. If this foldable capacitor becomes available on the market, it will have a big impact on Wearable Electronic
Las Vegas had its e-Textile symposium and almost at the same time on the other side of the globe in Taiwan, the Textile International Forum and Exhibition in Taipei has e-Textiles on their agenda as well.
Scientists from the Taiwan Textile Research Institute showed backed to the delight of the visitors toasts in an oven made of textiles. Yes, I didn’t make a typo, their oven is made of thin and flexible conductive elements woven into the oven’s highly heat-resistant fabric.
The oven’s internal temperature can exceed 300 degrees Celsius without damaging the soft fabric and weights only a few hundred grams.
For what is a textile oven good you might ask. For one, such oven can be folded according the Scientists and it is of course very light. This can become handy for camping, trekking in the great outdoors or maybe disaster relief due to the light weight and little space needed for transportation.
One thing might be a problem for the cloth oven to become a commercial
Just a friendly reminder for our dear readers: IFAI EXPO 2007 is starting in two days (Oct. 3) and on the same day the E-Textiles symposium will be held from 8:30 am - 12:30 pm.
The E-Textiles Symposium offers a journey into the vast world of Smart Textiles by exploring revolutionary fabrics, e-textiles, i-textiles, flexible batteries, yarns and textile circuitry.
Especially Designers, Engineers, Research and development, Manufacturers and Marketing specialists will get useful information and networking opportunities to benefit their future work on Wearable Electronic products.
To get tuned into this event, Patricia Wilson, President of Fabric Works a consultancy firm for integration of e-textiles and coauthor of the book ‘Extreme Textiles‘, gives an over view and teaser in a Podcast about the E-textile symposium on IFAI’s website.
Patricia is talking about the impact the iPod has on Wearable Electronics and points out the huge popularity Solar fashion and in specif
Wearable Electronic takes center stage during the upcoming IFAI Expo 2007 from Oct. 3-5, 2007, in Las Vegas, USA.
IFAI stands for Industrial Fabrics Association International and is the most important textile industry event of 2007.
Especially interesting for us is the E-Textiles symposium which is part of IFAI. This symposium will have prominent speakers from the Wearable Electronic field and talk about topics like:
Integrating Glow Skin Active Illumination Systems into Apparel
Market Opportunities for Smart Fabrics
Flexible Batteries for Smart Fabrics
A Crash Course in Electronics for Textile Professionals
Lessons Learned from the Market
and concludes with a panel discussion on Market Timing for Smart Textiles.
Everyone interested and/or working in the field of Wearable Electronic, E-Textiles, Smart Fabrics should make sure this event is on his/her agenda.
We from talk2myShirt look very much forward to hear what the experts have to share with us about creating successful Wearable
Maggie Orth is an artist, technologist, entrepreneur who creates and invents interactive and electronic textiles. She is considered a pioneer in the emerging field of electronic textiles, interactive fashions, wearable computing, and interface design.
Maggie uses electronic textiles to create programmable color change textile art works, soft and fuzzy textile sensors and light artworks, electronic fashions and electronic textile design products. She is also Founder and CEO of International Fashion Machines which is selling the POM POM Light Dimmer we have posted about some time ago.
Her latest works make use of thermochromic ink. This type of ink changes color when the surrounding temperature changes. In the ‘off’ stage it has one color and in the ‘on’, heated stage another color.
Unlike light emitting displays, color-change textiles based on thermochromic ink do not light up. We can compare it with a change of the textile color – see our ‘vision’ about an evening dress
Wearable Electronic and Smart Textiles will be again on stage between July 22 and 24 during the CPD, a International Trade Fair for Womenswear and Accessories in Düsseldorf / Germany.
With 1,050 exhibitors representing a total of more than 1,430 brands from 38 countries, CPD Womenswear and Accessories is one of the biggest events in this category in the fashion industry.
Based on the success of the Wearable Electronic showcase during Avantex in June, the smart textile community presents again the growing variety of Wearable Electronic products.
A special section of 300 square meter has been set aside for the SmartTextil Village where Wearable Electronic, technical yarns and smart fabrics will be presented.
The latest creations from companies like Pierre Cardin, O’Neill, Picard, Daniel Hechter, Bäumler and Lodenfrey can be seen in the SmartTextil Village.
Wearable Electronic fashion is becoming a fix part of various shows and trade fairs in the fashion industry. With this lat
Summer time is a great reading time. Lying on the beach, the pool or siting in the park (always with the Juice Bag next to me) is the best way to relax and reflect.
Although Techno Textiles 2: Revolutionary Fabrics for Fashion and Designis not a new book, I like to re-read it and get inspired by the wealth of information that Sarah E. Braddock Clarke and Marie O’Mahony compiled in this book.
Techno Textiles 2 explores the exciting area of art, design and technology that defines our 21st-century way of life with textiles. We are constantly surrounded from textiles, we are wrapped in them, we sleep on them we walk on them and many (inside) walls are covered and dressed up with textiles. This book introduces new textiles for fabrics that shrink or expand to fit; textiles developed from carbon, steel, glass and ceramics; materials that protect the wearer from every environmental extreme, anywhere on earth or in space.
The book is divided into three sections:
Innovations which expl
Outrageously sexual, often shocking, dramatic and bold in line. Definitely not for the “fashion timid”. New Yorkers will be able to thrill to the super-sexy, fashion-forward genius of designer Thierry Mugler when Manhattan’s favorite vintage clothing event, The Manhattan Vintage Clothing Show & Antique Textile Show & Sale, returns to the Metropolitan Pavilion on April [...]
Desde que el hombre primitivo tuvo uso de razón, protegerse contra las inclemencias del tiempo ha sido una de las prioridades básicas del ser humano, especialmente en aquellos entornos y situaciones donde la exposición a la climatología puede ser causa de muerte.Como todos sabemos, nuestro cuerpo está regulado para funcionar a una temperatura interna de entre 36 y 37 grados. Cuando estamos en un entorno donde el exterior está más frío que nuestro cuerpo, la conductividad de nuestra piel provoca que perdamos calor a través de ella. Cuando la temperatura corporal baja de 35ºC sentimos frío y luego temblores. Si la situación se prolonga y la temperatura sigue bajando, podemos entrar en hipotermia y sin querer entrar en detalles sobre la hipotermia, os diré que si esta situación se alarga, se entra en una situación crítica que si no es solucionada conduce ineludiblemente a la muerte.Los mecanismos de pérdida de temperatura son los siguientes:Conducción, Convección, Radia
Todos sabemos lo importante que es estar confortable cuando practicamos nuestra afición. Aprovechando que se acerca el calor estival, quiero compartir con vosotros esta información que, la siguiente vez que vayamos a renovar nuestro vestuario, nos ayudará a escoger nuestras prendas con mejor criterio.Pero para entender los conceptos que más adelante expondremos comencemos por el principio:¿Porqué sudamos?A pesar de que el cuerpo humano puede soportar una enorme variedad de temperaturas externas, la temperatura interna optima de nuestro organismo se mueve en un estrecho margen de 36,5 y 37 grados.Hay dos factores que hacen aumentar nuestra temperatura corporal: La temperatura ambiente y la actividad física.En cualquiera de los dos casos, cuando la temperatura corporal asciende por encima de los 37 grados, nuestro organismo pone en marcha una serie de mecanismos destinados a enfriar nuestro cuerpo. El primer mecanismo es una vaso dilatación de la red capilar cerca de la piel. Los
Vardhman Textiles Ltd has informed that the Board of Directors of the Company at its meeting held on March 10, 2007, has declared an interim dividend of 40% on the paid up equity share capital of the Company.
http://www.madeingreen.com/“made in Green” nace en 2006 como certificado de ámbito internacional otorgado por la Asociación de Investigación de la Industria Textil (1) a los productos textiles:1) elaborados sin sustancias tóxicas, y2) confeccionados en todo su proceso en centros de producción respetuosos con el medio ambiente y los derechos universales (humanos y sociales) de los trabajadores.El consumidor puede identificar el producto por medio de una etiqueta cosida al tejido y una tarjeta prendida a él.Entre los personajes famosos que apoyan la iniciativa se encuentran: Juan José Millás, Malena Alterio, Juan y Medio, Fernando Delgado, Martín Fiz, Cristina Hoyos, Paco León, David Meca, Manuel Toharia, Lorenzo Milá, y Blanca Portillo entre otros.La marca “made in Green” suscribe los siguientes puntos: respetar el medio ambiente, los derechos humanos y del niño, garantizar la ausencia de sustancias nocivas en tejidos que lleven su sello, certificar la fabricación
Textiles seems like a boring subject coming right of the bat, but they have a brilliant past with innovative new emergence. Whole country economies are dependent on their export yields. New advancements like power-generating cloth and nano technology integration are making this industry a head turner.
