The imports of textiles and apparels by the US increased in January 2013, with Vietnam and Bangladesh turning out to be the fastest growing suppliers to the western nation. The overall textile and apparel imports by the US grew by 3.7 percent year-on-year to 4.611 billion square metre equivalents (SME) in January, according to the figures released by the US Department of Commerce’s Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA). Value-wise, US textile and garment imports during the month were wort

The Curtain Exchange, a designer drapery retailer in Louisville, Kentucky will be hosting the Peacock Alley Bedding Trunk Show on Thursday, March 21 from 1-7 pm at The Vogue Center in St. Matthews. The trunk show offers guests the opportunity to meet Peacock Alley luxury bedding specialist Brad Cleveland, as well as the chance to see the latest bedding designs and styles from Peacock Alley. This event is the perfect opportunity for guests to prepare for upcoming events like the Kentucky Derby

The talented American artist Inez Harwood has set a Guinness World record by creating the world’s longest tie-and-dye piece of cloth under her Liberty project, which strives to spread awareness about America’s dying textile industry. Woven in South Carolina’s Inman Mills with 100 percent domestically grown cotton, the approximately 950 pounds heavy tie-and-dye cloth was made of using 120 pounds of dye and 8,000 zip-ties. Breaking Tokushima Japan’s record holding 2739 feet and five inches l

Rehabmart.com, an online e-commerce company that sells rehabilitation and medical supplies, has joined into a distribution agreement with Confortaire, Incorporated, to offer their Abduction Pillow to a wider consumer marketplace. Headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi, Confortaire manufactures high quality polyurethane foam and polyester fiber products for a wide range of applications. With the most advanced cutting equipment available and a management team that boasts over 100 years of combined f

Primitive, the well known Chicago gallery has opened an exhibition of rare, hand woven African ceremonial skirts known as “heirloom cloth.” Created by the Dida People in the Ivory Coast, the textiles are woven without the use of a loom utilizing a now “extinct” weaving technique. Dida women assembled bundles of fibers from the raffia palm tree and deftly braided them by hand into tubular skirts with no seams. The result is a distinctive cloth cylinder or tube meant to be worn as a form of finery

Located in China’s industry hub for home furniture and furnishings, Intertextile Guangzhou Hometextile China will run from 18 – 21 March at the China Import and Export Fair Complex. Taking place concurrently with three extensive home furnishings trade fairs, an exceptional opportunity is provided to all participants to gain useful insights into the fast-growing domestic market, keep up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technology, and meet the right suppliers among the thousands exhibi

OMNOVA Solutions Inc. announced the successful completion of an amendment to its $200 million Term Loan Credit Facility ($195.5 million outstanding). Key changes in terms include a one-year extension of the facility maturity to May 2018 and a reduction in borrowing spreads of 1.25%. Effective March 7, the new floating interest rate is 4.25%. The annual interest expense savings of the amended Term Loan Facility is approximately $2.4 million at current LIBOR rates. The Company will record a ch

CRAiLAR Technologies Inc., which produces and markets a natural fiber made from flax and other bast fibers, has entered into a marketing and development agreement with Cone Denim, America’s largest and most innovative working denim mill, to begin this month. The agreement calls for Cone Denim to market and develop the use of CRAiLAR Flax in its denim fabric line, which is sold to a broad range of the best global brands in fashion, work wear and casual lifestyle categories. The agreement is th

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc the leading developer of advanced spider silk based fiber technologies, announced the launch of stage 3 of its pilot production program The program is designed to run in three stages, each launching in turn when the data from the previous stage indicates that the program is reaching its benchmarks. "The launch of stage three indicates stages 1 and 2 are exceeding our expectations with hatch rates exceeding 60%. At the current rates of the program's developm

Cotton futures rose on Tuesday as mills viewed early lower prices as an opportunity to buy and pushed the market to recover from the session's initial losses. The most-active May cotton contract on ICE Futures U.S. rose 0.61 cent, or 0.7 percent, to settle at 87.33 cents per pound. Prices touched a 10-month high of 88.78 cents a lb on Friday. The fiber closed just near its 10-day moving average of 86.30 cents, which has served as a support level, and traded only as low as 86.23 cents throughou