USTER® Technologies

A video released on the occasion of 50th anniversary of USTER® Statistics. Uster Technologies provides total quality management control and solutions for the textile industry with testing instruments, statistics and services for laboratory and spinning mills from fiber to fabric.

Textile Industry of China

An Aljazeera TV report on the textile industry of China

Textiles of the Future

A Video on Smart and Intelligent Textiles

Sourcing Strategies in Clothing Retail Firms: Product Complexity Versus Overseas Supply Chain

A paper by Simone Guercini & Andrea Runfola of Italy in which the duo tries to investigate the sourcing strategies of various retail firms like Marks & Spencer, H&M, Inditex, Gap, C&A.

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Emission Estimation Technique Manual for Textile and Clothing Industry

The purpose of all Emission Estimation Technique (EET) Manuals in this series is to assist Australian manufacturing, industrial and service facilities to report emissions of listed substances to the National Pollutant Inventory (NPI). This Manual describes the procedures and recommended approaches for estimating emissions from facilities engaged in textile and clothing product manufacture.

This Manual covers facilities engaged in spinning natural and man-made fibres into yarns and threads. These materials are then converted by weaving and knitting into fabrics. Finally, the fabrics, and in some cases the yarns and threads used to make them, are dyed and finished.

The primary focus of this Manual is on weaving and knitting operations, with a brief mention of the processes and pollutants from carpet manufacture.

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Requirements of Successful ERP Software For A Textile Dye-House Management

Abstract: ERP is a modern concept of any business solution that integrated all the process of a business’ functions including planning, production process, marketing, accounting and supply chain management. Selecting ERP software for a textile dye-house management is very important. As integrating all the functions of a dyeing industry are very complicated, success of ERP software depends upon the capability of simplifying interrelated functions and developing user-friendly interface of software manufacturer. This research study unveils the actual requirements of successful ERP software suitable for dye-house management and also analyzes the available software related to textile dye-house or textile manufacturing in the market.

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PANTONE® TEXTILE Color Chooser

The PANTONE Textile Color Chooser is designed to work with any design and illustration applications or any other application where you need to use the PANTONE Textile Colors. As a designer, stylist or CAD technician, you now have the ability to use PANTONE Textile Colors in a digital format for the accurate communication of color.

The PANTONE Textile Color Chooser (Version 1.0) contains two color palettes: (1) the PANTONE TEXTILE Color System(R) (TCS) - 1,701 colors specifically developed by Pantone for fashion conscious industries and (2) the PANTONE Textile New Colors - 56 New Colors that are part of the most recent range extension for the industry standard PANTONE TEXTILE Color System.

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Journal of Fibres and Textile

Journal of Fibres and Textile is issued every quarter of the year in english language by department of fibres and textile chemistry, Slovak University of Technology. Individual issues can be downloaded in Portable Document Format (*.PDF).

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Chromic Phenomena - The Technological Applications of Colour Chemistry

A book by Peter Bamfield and published by The Royal Society of Chemistry in 2001.

ISBN 0-8404-474-4

Total colour management in textiles

A book published by Woodhead Publishing Limited in association with The Textile Institute in 2006 and Edited by John H. Xin.

ISBN-13: 978-1-85573-923-9, ISBN-10: 1-85573-923-2

Colour Forecasting

A book for understanding the use of colour in fashion and apparel by Tracy Diane and Tom Cassidy and published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd in 2005

ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-2120-0, ISBN-10: 1-4051-2120-3

Textile Sizing

A very famous book on the technology of textile sizing written by Bhuvenesh C. Goswami, Rajesh D. Anandjiwala & David M. Hall and published by Marcel Dekker, Inc.

ISBN: 0-8247-5053-5

Lecture Notes on Weaving Technology

A series of high quality lecture notes on weaving technology by Prof.Dr. Emel Önder and Assoc. Prof.Dr. Ömer Berk Berkalp of Department of Textile Engineering, Istanbul Technical University.

Chapter 1a: Introduction
Chapter 1b: Basic Operations in Weaving Process
Chapter 1c: Secondary Motions of Weaving
Chapter 2a: History, Classification of Weaving Machinery
Chapter 2b: Weaving Productivity, Operational Productivity, Comparing Issues of Weaving Machinery
Chapter 4a: Introduction to Shedding Motions and Cam Shedding Mechanisms
Chapter 4b: Dobby Mechanisms
Chapter 4c: Jacquard Mechanisms 1
Chapter 4d: Jacquard Mechanisms 2
Chapter 5: Beat-up Mechanisms

Problems With Fiber Reactive Dyeings Not Repeating - A Look at Five Typical Cases

An article on fiber dyeing by By Brent Smith, Keith Beck and Tod Madderra and published in American Dyestuff Reporter.

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Troubleshooting In Dyeing Part I & II

An article on troubleshooting methods in dyeing written by Dr. Brent Smith, Dept. of Textile Chemistry, NCSU. These are the first 2 parts in the 12 parts series.

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