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Textile Industry is based on specialized skills and techniques. The textile traders who are new to this industry need to understand the basic manufacturing processes of fiber, yarn, fabric, textile and other components of textile industry. Those who are already in this industry need to know the new developments. There are others who are interested in the textile industry for their academic interests. This section fulfills all the academic requirements of people engaged in textile industry.

Academic Reports

Jacquard Fabrics

There are two types of methods that are used for identifying different fibers - the nontechnical tests and the technical tests. The nontechnical tests include the feeling test and the burn test. The technical tests include microscope test and chemical test. The technical tests for fiber identification are carried out in laboratories and require technical knowledge and skills.

Technical Tests for Fiber Identification
Testing Fibers

Acrylic Fibers- The High Performance Fibers

Everywhere today, there is demand for high performance fabrics. This has driven the fiber scientists and material technologists for making specialty fibers. As a result, many hi- tech fibers have been developed that are used in various fields. These fibers have high tenacity and high strength which are the prerequisites for technical textiles.

Textile Designing - A Brief Overview

Textile as a material of daily use has been there for ages now and as an industry, it is one of the promising industries. Textile Industry will always be there as clothes are one of the basic human necessities. For making textile, there is always the need of textile designers who design the textiles.

Textile Recycling

Textile industry is among the most essential consumer goods industry. We all need garments and other textile products such as footwear and bags etc. However, textile industry is also accused of being one of the most polluting industry. Not only production but consumption of textiles also produce waste.

Bamboo Fiber - A Brief Analysis

The bamboo fiber is made from the starchy pulp of bamboo plants. This textile fiber is fabricated from natural bamboo and other additives. In fact, bamboo fiber is a regenerated cellulose fiber, which is produced from bamboo pulp, processed from bamboo culms. It looks like cotton in its un-spun form.

Persian and Oriental Carpets
Carpets

It has yet not been established as to where and when did the art of carpet making originated. However, it is said that it might have been originated in the "Carpet belt" which includes Persia (Iran), Turkmenistan, central Asia, Mongolia and China.

Fabric Welding
With the whole environment gone highly technical and specialized, industrial fabrics are used widely today for making many products such as inflatable boats, sewn technical clothing, tents, awnings, truck tarpaulins, filter bags, airships, bag & luggage, inflatable toys, advertising banners etc. Sewing, seam taping, gluing etc.

Textile Warping
It is a commonly known fact that fabrics are constructed through two major techniques- weaving and knitting apart from other minor techniques. In these processes, two distinct sets of yarns .html called the warp and the weft are interlaced with each other to form a fabric.

Flame Retardants
As the whole environment is going highly technical and risky, the demand for specially treated textile such as flame resistant fabric has grown significantly. In the process of meeting with these demands, synthetic fiber has played a significant role.

Banana Fiber
Banana plant not only gives the delicious fruit but it also provides textile fiber, the banana fiber. It grows easily as it sets out young shoots and is most commonly found in hot tropical climates. All varieties of banana plants have fibers in abundance.

Fiber History
From the ages for which there are no records, man has been using clothes. This itself is a proof that fiber is present, now for several thousands of years. Natural Fibers were the first to be used as an obvious choice. Man-made fiber or synthetic fiber industry began only in 1910 with the first commercial production of rayon.

Performance Apparel and its Global Market Trends
Performance Apparel, simply defined, are the garments that perform or function for some purpose. These performance clothing help athletes and active people keep cool, comfortable and dry through moisture management and other techniques.

Chitin and Chitosan- Eco Friendly Textile Finishes
Chitin is a polysaccharide found in the outer skeleton of arthropods including insects, crabs, shrimps, and lobsters. It is the second most plentiful, naturally occurring polymer, after cellulose. Chitosan, derived from Chitin, is prepared by partial deacetylation of chitin.

Fabric Identification
Those who are related to textile in any way, need to know the process of Fabric Identification. A Textile manufacturer, wholesaler or a retailer will have to know what fabric their prospective customers are going to buy and how they will test the end product- the finished fabric.

Apparel, Clothing & Garments
Clothing is so basic to our living, it just comes naturally. Does anyone thinks about the countless efforts gone into making of that perfect dress?

Fabrics
Fabric, the basic material for a range of products, has to go through so many processes before it is ready for making a perfect product for enhancing personalities, decorating homes or enabling special industrial functions.

Fibers, Yarns & Threads
Fibers, Yarns & Threads are the foundation of any textile product and as happens with all foundations, it is never ever thought about by the end-product user. A variety of fibers are used for making various textile.

Home Furnishings- A Review
Everyone is particular when it comes to decorating homes. A review of what all fabrics are being used for manufacturing various home furnishings will definitely help both- the consumers as well as manufacturers.

Textile Chemicals
The textile goes through various processes before it takes the final shape. There are many processes that require use of different textile chemicals.

Textile Machinery Industry- A Review
From simple machines like spinning wheels and hand weaving looms to electronic, computerized machines, textile machinery industry has come a long way.

Textile Products
When the term 'textile' is heard, the common understanding is that of clothing and garments but textile is used in the manufacturing of so many products other than apparels. Textile can actually be put to interesting uses.

Textile Services- An Evaluation
In todays world, when outsourcing is the buzz word, how can the textile industry remain detached from it. There are many textile services available in the market.

Trims, Closures and Accessories
Howsoever beautiful a dress is made, it is incomplete without buttons and a bag too needs zippers to be useful. Not only usefulness but beauty is also enhanced by laces, ribbons and other trims, closures and accessories.

Technical Textiles Industry
Technical Textiles are the high performance fabrics specially manufactured for various industrial and specialized individual applications.

Market Study of Pigments
Life cannot be imagined without colors. The importance of colors to attract the buyers is very well known to the industries. As such, the market of color pigments is growing at a very fast pace.

Zipper- The sign of Togetherness
Zipper, the tiny mechanical wonder, keeps so much of us and our possessions together. Without this sleek trim, it would be so difficult to manage our clothings, baggage and even footwear. This fabulous fashion accessory really deserves a well organized description.

Manufactured Textile Fibers- The Global Trends
For centuries, natural fibers had been the preference for the textile manufacturers due to their comfortability and easy accessibility. However, natural fibers are continually being replaced by the cheaper, better performing man-made fibers in most of the market applications.