Swedish stockings from Fulgar’s yarnThe hosiery industry is facing many challenges. The new lifestyles of Millennial consumers are transforming their clothing choices, too.

The cotton price has been fluctuating in tandem with international price unlike earlier cotton seasons. The global cotton price ruled high during the last cotton season which continued till the beginning of the new season.

Datacolor has partnered with Color Solutions International (CSI), a leading provider of colour standards and colour communication tools for the textile industry. Using Datacolor’s portable colour measurement device, ColorReaderPRO, fashion and apparel brands can now precisely select and identify the colour from multiple colour libraries.

Lancets, or gauges, are thin metal strips used on face-to-face carpet weaving looms to ensure constant pile height. Before they were introduced on face-to-face looms they had been used on loop-pile looms (Brussels carpets).

Textile means more than just a piece of clothing today, it has always been closely related to our daily life. Since more consumers are eager to buy unique, creative and functional clothing, innovative technologies are being adopted in a broad range of applications in the textile and fashion market.

The cotton price has been fluctuating in tandem with international price unlike earlier cotton seasons. The global cotton price ruled high during the last cotton season which continued till the beginning of the new season.

The overall market size of textiles and clothing, including exports has increased from $145.71 billion in 2015 to $146.63 billion in 2016, which is expected to touch $164 billion by 2018.

For Vandewiele, DOMOTEX provided an opportunity to meet all present customers and many prospects for future business.

Preparations and innovations are continuing at full speed for the ITM 2020 exhibition, which will host the latest innovations of the leading companies in textile technology.