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AATCC announces Blue Wool standards

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AATCC, the Association of Textile, Apparel & Materials Professionals, announces the availability of L2 lightfastness control fabric. The AATCC Blue Wool Lightfastness Standard is ¨one of a group of dyed wool fabrics distributed by AATCC for use in determining the amount of light exposure of specimens during lightfastness testing.¨

Textiles as old as civilization

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The history of textile is almost as old as that of human civilization and as time moves on the history of textile has further enriched itself. In India, the culture of silk was introduced in 400 AD, while spinning of cotton traces back to 3000 BC. In China, the discovery and consequent development of sericulture

Orders rise for Italian machinery

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Orders of textile machinery for the second quarter of the year showed an increase, thanks to demand from foreign markets. Raffaella Carabelli, President of ACIMIT, said: ¨Good results from abroad, but we´re still concerned about poor domestic demand.

Textile policy to focus on new markets

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With an aim to grab one-fifth of the global textile business and increase exports to $300 billion in the next decade, the Government proposes to rejig labour laws, make special efforts to attract foreign investment and enter new markets with high export potential, such as Japan, China, Brazil and Russia.

Effect of D/Y ratio on draw texturing yarn

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During texturing, with the increase of D/Y ratio, yarn denier and tenacity decrease while the breaking strain increases, find Dhavale AJ and Sarda NR. Texturing is the process of imparting the comfort characteristics such as voluminousness, luxuriousness, bulkiness, good dimensional stability, etc.

Garmenting: Past, Present and Future

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The history of clothing is very intriguing and it is believed that wearing clothing can be traced through genetic analysis on human body traces, to as far as 107,000 years ago.Existence of sewing needles date back to 19,000 BC, while the use of dyed flax were found as far as 36,000 BC.

India charms with rich styles

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India has a diverse and rich textile tradition. The origin of Indian textiles can be traced to the Indus valley civilization. The people of this civilization used homespun cotton for weaving their garments. Excavations at Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro