Storage technique matters in improving fabric performance

Filed Under (Home Furnishing Design) by admin on 04-06-2010

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Once you start creating and sewing, it become very important that the fabric should be maintained properly so that it can provide long lasting results. And for this, storage matters a lot. Storing the fabric in the correct manner improves its quality and life and helps it perform continuously.

But in case you fail to store them in the right place, then probably, its life and the quality would get affected. Below are few of the storage tips for the fabric:

  1. Pre-shrinking of the fabric helps especially before storing it. Fabric gets ready right when you are about to use.
  2. Hanging of the fabric helps a lot. Rather than being rolled and bolt inside, fabric should be straightened and hanged properly. Few fabrics, like velvet may get unusable and permanently crushed while being folded, even while being folded on the hanger might affect the nap. Safety pins should be used for hanging the fabric to the hanger in case hanging is very much important.
  3. Avoid storing the fabric stuff in the sunlight. It should not be directly prone to the light of sun since the fabric gets faded by this, where fabric is not folded and you are left with two colored fabric.
  4. Storing the fabric in plastic bags and bins for protecting it from smoke, dust and grease helps.
  5. It would be better if you’ll store the fabric nicely for storage so that only minimum amount of space gets occupied providing better space for fabric.

Storage of the fabric in the right manner helps in improving both, its life and quality.

Satin fabric, its features and uses

Filed Under (Textile) by admin on 15-05-2010

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Satin fabric is very much thick kinds with a glossy touch over the surface but a dull sort of back, Traditionally it is made of silk within which the filling is arranged in a way that it can bind the warp very much seldomly spacing in such manner that nothing gets visible than the warp. For the very first time, satin was woven by Chinese silk weavers from the ancient time which influenced Romans and Greek both quickly and the fire was spread.

Basically during the middle ages, satin was a bit more costly and rarely available which was basically used for royal and churchly garments. Secrets about development of silk moved to the western region and as a result, splended satins started being woven in Florence and Genoa which then moved to Engand and Lyons during the 15th Century. Contemporary style of satins were developed in a huge range of fibers which included synthetic fibers too.

Its quite easier to sew lush silk but definitely it needs to be properly underlined so that a definite shape could be maintained. It has shine, and touch of best appearance in looks. It’s the best of its kind for bridal, fancy evening ballgowns and christening. It also helps in the making of beautiful and smart drapes in spite of being very much expensive.

Specialized range of Duvet covers

Filed Under (Textile) by admin on 04-05-2010

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Beautifully designed attractive duvet covers provide glorious appeal to the rooms and for bedrooms they are specifically designed with high quality fabrics which are woven for developing exquisite designs. It’s easy to sew the duvet covers, because they are developed from two single pieces of fabrics. Basically the job of the duvet cover is to protect and preserve the comforter so that quick frequent cleaning processes are unnecessary.

Rather, it’s as if that the properly covered duvets and comforters don’t require better cleaning.
Varied range of duvet covers is nowadays available for making choices and the buyers can do that in the best manner between huge range of fabrics and designs in accordance with the prevailing fashion and trends going on. Plain or print color in satin, cotton, jacquard and linen allow the duvet to personalize in harmony with materials used for home furnishing. The patterns and color combination that are used for fabricating duvet covers fit well in all styles and decorations.

Customers can choose among the best qualities of duvet covers available theses. Manufacturers and design experts are doing much more to add on great varieties to them so that market becomes even more advance and latest trends can be introduced.

Ness Wadia joins Jeh on Britannia board

Filed Under (Textile News) by admin on 01-05-2010

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MUMBAI: Ness Wadia, the elder son of Nusli Wadia, head of the eponymous Wadia Group, has joined the board of Britannia Industries, joining younger brother Jeh Wadia, who had joined the board of the fast moving consumer goods company four years ago.

The board of the maker of a host of breakfast food items such as biscuits, bread cheese and milk, has approved Ness Wadia’s inclusion into the board from April 29, the company said in a filing to the stock exchange. Mr Wadia will be a non-executive director, representing the Wadia family on the board of the company, India’s second-largest biscuit-maker after Parle, owned by the Chouhan family.

Ness Wadia is also the joint MD of the group flagship Bombay Dyeing and joining the board of Britannia could mean changes in roles for the second generation promoters in the diversified family-run conglomerate. Bombay Dyeing, whose main textile business has been suffered from the twin effects of falling export orders and stiff competition in the domestic market, is witnessing changes at the top level.

Durgesh Mehta, a group veteran, is tipped to join Ness Wadia as joint MD of Bombay Dyeing from May 1. He replaces PV Kuppuswamy, who retired after a long innings in the diversified group. Nusli Wadia had brought the textile business under Britannia managing director Vinita Bali to turn around its fortunes. Bombay has generally had two joint managing directors.

Jeh Wadia has recently taken charge of the group’s growing property business that was once handled by his elder brother. A senior Wadia group professional has been asked to manage the low-cost airline Go Air, earlier run by Jeh, allowing the younger Wadia to pay undivided attention to the property business.

“Britannia is the most profitable company in the group. It is natural that both the sons are given seats on the board,” said a person close to the Wadia group. The real estate business posted a profit before interest and a tax of Rs 159.47 crore while the textile division reported a loss of Rs 65.98 crore for the year to end March. The property division also posted a profit of Rs 18.03 crore for the quarter to end December.

News printed in http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/

Textile dyeing

Filed Under (Textile) by admin on 19-02-2010

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Textile industry is quite a huge one, including all necessary processes involved in the production and manufacturing of fabric and designer clothing. Textile dyeing is one such process which deals with the coloring portion of the textile material. This is basically concerned with carbon-based, organic compounds. The organic compounds are dissolved in the relevant solvents, generally water.

Now, the dyes which are in the solution are quickly absorbed over the surface of the textile fibre. It might not be very quick and sudden process and might take some time since after covering the surface, the dyes are supposed to pass into the internal portions of the material. This movement into the interiors of the fabric is actually called as diffusion.
Transformation of the dye takes place where it passes on to the fibre directly from the solution. The process is named as exhaustion. Here, if 100% exhaustion is witnessed, it means dye is not left anywhere in the dye-bath solution. And if some amount of it is left then possibilities are there that the fabric might not be able to provide its best in performance.
Although, one of the most important properties of dyeing is that it is levelness, which means same amount of depth of that color can be seen spread all over the fabric or the material. Most of the time, this happens where the material gets colors completely with the color.
Environmental aspects of dyeing:
Textile dyeing helps in making out lives colorful with all those smartly colored outfits. All the latest ranges of dyes are now being developed with due compliance with the environmental effects like degradation affecting by exposure to light as well as with water. Textile industry is expected to perform its responsibility quite well on the matter of minimizing harm, like passing of residues to wasteful streams, to the environment and the customers.
Necessary actions are being taken up in this regard and so effective legislation along with technologies is being developed for making textile dyeing even more effective, efficient and completely friendly with the current polluted environment. Minimization of pollution and waste is the sole objective behind and are being handled with care and protection. Governmental actions are being directed to safeguard the interest of the countrymen by the way of safe and comfortable use of fabric and clothing.
Textile dyeing, like all other fabrication processes, is safe and effective in use and often gets good result nowadays.