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Insight15 Jan 2019NEVIANO designer Marie Spinali provides insight on how to create a successful smart garment at the start of an important year for the smart textiles industry. Joe Link reports
Prices14 Jan 2019A harmonic global economic slowdown is on the horizon for 2019, a reversal of the upswing seen in 2017 and 2018. China’s economy is slowing as the weakness in the manufacturing sector in particular is apparent and can be exacerbated by the US-China trade war
Insight14 Jan 2019The Central Saint Martins (CSM) project with Grayson Perry, undertaken by second-year BA Fashion Print students, provides a commercial brief but gives scope to be highly innovative and imaginative in part due to the adoption of digital textile machinery solutions, which is giving valuable experience to a new breed of fashion designers and is providing them with the skillset required to succeed, project organisers say.
Pricesfree14 Jan 2019The opening sale of 2019 saw the South African wool market move up strongly on the back of substantial increases in Australia. The Cape Wools Merino Indicator increased by 863 points (4.2%) to close at a value of R216.48 (clean). The Cape Wools All Wool Indicator gained 3.9%.
Insightfree10 Jan 2019Family-run Richard Hough, a supplier and manufacturer of a specialist range of rollers for the finishing and processing of paper and textiles, is transferring its industrial roller technology to KWF Hilger GmbH & Co based in Düsseldorf, Germany.
