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Reshoring, Nearshoring, and Friendshoring
During the pandemic, the frailties of traditional supply chains were clearly exposed, resulting in significant disruptions across almost all industries around the globe. As we exited the pandemic, brands and retailers were still struggling to find a balance between time, cost, and quality as they worked to restructure supply chains and bring their infrastructure into […]
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Digital Fabric Printing: The Entrepreneurial Opportunity
With the increasing number of digital fabric printing solutions now on the market and their high quality, affordability and ease of use, there is growing opportunity for entrepreneurs to enter the market, starting their own businesses and providing unique services for their brand and designer clients. Raspberry Creek Fabrics is one such business. Founded by […]
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Sneak Peek: How Can Slow Fashion Win the Fashion Race?
(The following feature is an excerpt from the feature article in the November/December 2023 issue of 秀色直播Review. If you are an 秀色直播member, download your copy of the magazine to read the entire feature.) While 80 billion 鈥榝ast fashion鈥 garments are produced every year, 30% of clothing purchases are never worn. Furthermore, most clothes […]
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Near-Shoring and the Future of the Textile Industry
In recent years, the textile industry has been undergoing significant changes. A tough lesson many apparel brands learned through the Covid-19 pandemic is that inexpensive but distant production and jammed ports of entry can wreak havoc on production timelines, inventory levels, and time to market. Further complicating the matter, the new prevalence of work-from-home and […]
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Are Nanotechnology Textiles Sustainable?
Millie is 20. She鈥檚 quite the purveyor of fast fashion. But she鈥檚 also a conscious consumer.聽 And as a matter of fact, she鈥檚 also into nano-coated wearables. Nano-coatings are thin films in the nanoscale range (around 1-100 nm) that are applied to surfaces to enhance various features such as antibacterial and anti-fouling capabilities, corrosion resistance, […]
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Turn It Up!
What&/newsletters/page/3/8217;s new in the acoustic fabric market. With so many uses, it&/newsletters/page/3/8217;s not surprising both main sectors of the acoustic market are currently growing. Researchers estimate the fabric acoustic panel industry will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 7.2% between 2021 to 2030. And the global automotive acoustic materials market is expected […]
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Fashion Is Still Flirting with Smart Fabrics
Early this year, during Paris Fashion Week, Japanese design house Anrealage debuted color and texture changing clothes for their AW 23/24 collection. Described as 鈥渁 scientist of fashion,鈥 Kunihiko Morinaga presented his own wearable take on Umwelt (German for 鈥榚nvironment鈥 or 鈥榮urround-world鈥), a 19th-century concept developed […]
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Wildland Firefighter Protection鈥擳aming Extreme Environments
As humans continue to encroach into wildlands, fire risks to property and health can result. This is especially true in the Western United States, where drought, high winds, and lightning strikes often lead to these disastrous fires. In 2022, 66,255 fires burned 7,534,403 acres in the United States. Wildland firefighters serve on the front lines […]
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3D Printing for Textiles
3D Printing: Definition and Development Three-dimensional (3D) printing, or additive manufacturing, is a one-step process during which filaments or materials are applied in layers according to a geometric configuration using a digital file. The process originated in the 1980s when Hideo Kodama developed a prototyping device whereby ultraviolet (UV) lights were used to harden […]
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What Happens When Our Clothes Talk Back to Us?
What does Google鈥檚 April announcement of the closure of their Jacquard project mean about the future of e-textiles? Google鈥檚 Jacquard technology (revealed in 2015) embedded touch sensors and haptic feedback into clothing that, when paired with a smartphone, allowed wearers 鈥 through gestures on the garments 鈥 to perform smartphone activities such as make and […]
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Innovation in Digital Color Management for Textiles聽
Digital textile printing has been around for two decades. But it has never played a major role in the rather conservative prevalent analogue textile market. Until recently! The Digital Textile Printing Market Outlook (2022-2029) reveals an expected annual growth of 16.3% to US$8 billion, and synergistic innovation is crucial. As Malaysian Knitting Manufacturers Association (MKMA) […]
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Fibers and Fabrics of the Future
Fibers: Threads of Life Natural fibers were key to early human development, mobility, and survival, with the oldest known example, flax, dating back 34,000 years. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, humans discovered how to create their own fibers, such as artificial silk (rayon) and nylon. Methods of yarn construction also evolved, whereby hand […]
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