Apparel, garment and textile industries

This book discusses the various methods and techniques of printing.

Textile testing is an important field of textile sciences involving experimental evaluation of conventional as well as technical textile products.

This work is a comparative study of the three "e;great"e; American wars of the 20th century: World War I, World War II and Vietnam.

When thinking about lowering or changing consumption to lower carbon footprints, the obvious offenders come easily to mind: petroleum and petroleum products, paper and plastic, even food, but not clothes.

GPS-embedded clothing for finding children or skiers when they are lost, bio-monitoring smart shirts, and vests that monitor a patient's vital signs are no longer science fiction but science fact.

This book explores the marketing chain of British textile exports to South America and sheds light on South Americans'' consumer behaviour.

Many Latino and Chinese women who immigrated to New York City over the past several decades found work in the garment industry-an industry well known for both hiring immigrants and its harsh working conditions.

This book focuses on flame retardants (FR) for textile materials.

Apparel Merchandising: The Line Starts Here analyzes the evolution and development of the merchandising function in branded apparel companies and retail private label apparel.

Textile printing is the process of applying colour to fabric in definite patterns or designs.

The properties of woven and knitted fabrics differ largely due to the path yarn follows in the fabric structure.

Learn technical design processes and industry standards, such as ASTM and ISO, for apparel production and manufacturing practices.

Proper selling is professional, ethical and plays a vital role in the success of any business.

This book covers material challenges and technology innovation in coated and laminated textiles for aerostats and airships.

Proper selling is professional, ethical and plays a vital role in the success of any business.

Turn your passion and inspiration into a must-have bag collection and launch your own successful brand.

The fashion business has been collecting and analyzing information about colors, fabrics, silhouettes, and styles since the 18th century - activities that have long been shrouded in mystery.

This text identifies and discusses different technology innovation initiatives (TIIs) such as entrepreneurial capability, technology infrastructure capability, organizational culture and climate, and government initiatives.

The moving image has become a key marketing tool for luxury fashion, central in enabling brands to shape their visual codes and extend their brand awareness.

The focus of this book is to cover the fundamentals, methodological approaches, and diverse applications of smart systems.

A visual goldmine for designers of original print, weave and embellishment, Sourcing Ideas for Textile Design will help you generate new ideas, develop them methodically and finally create beautifully designed textiles.

Retailing is an ever-changing facet in the fashion industry.

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Fashion Business Cases: A Student Guide to Learning with Case Studies allows students to apply what they are learning in the classroom to real-life situations in the global fashion industry.

The scope of the study reported in this book entails understanding the constraints and providing potential diagnostics to Africa's leather sector, which is otherwise globally, one of the most lucrative agro-based industries in the world, estimated at over US$ 130Billion.

Manufacturing towards Excellence in spinning mills aims to help the relevant organization to cut costs, improve throughput, effective utilization of resources and to safeguard the interests of stakeholders.

The collaboration between the Textile Department of the University of Minho and the Brazilian Association of Studies and Research (ABEPEM) has led to an international platform for the exchange of research in the field of Fashion and Design: CIMODE.

Association of American Publishers (AAP) Finalist for the 2020 PROSE AwardAssociation of American Publishers (AAP) Subject Category Winner for the 2020 PROSE Award2019 Taylor & Francis Award Winner for Outstanding Professional Book!

Fashion is a glamorous industry, one of beauty, money, fame, and huge profits.

A fascinating account of the trade patterns and consumption practices that arose following European colonisation of the Atlantic world.

Natural Fiber Textile Composite Engineering sheds light on the area of the natural fiber textile composites with new research on their applications, the material used, the methods of preparation, the different types of polymers, the selection of raw materials, the elements of design the natural fiber textile polymer composites for a particular end use, their manufacturing techniques, and finally their life cycle assessments (LCA).

The 7th Edition of Who's Who in Fashion captures the energy, drama, excitement, and diversity of the luminaries working in the world of fashion.

Principles of Textile Printing discusses technical aspects of textile printing, covering almost all topics related to textile printing, including the types and quality of printing important for user satisfaction.

Introduces the rich world of textiles made, traded, and exchanged across Eurasia from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages.

A journalist travels the world to trace the origins of our clothes When journalist and traveler Kelsey Timmerman wanted to know where his clothes came from and who made them, he began a journey that would take him from Honduras to Bangladesh to Cambodia to China and back again.

Materials and Technology for Sportswear and Performance Apparel takes a close look at the design and development of functional apparel designed for high-performance sportswear.

Who's Who in Fashion captures the energy, drama, and excitement of the luminaries working in the world of fashion.

Electrospinning of nanofibers has emerged as a specialized processing technique for the formation of sub-micron fibers, with high specific surface areas.

Digitalisation is becoming a standard practice in the fashion industry.

All over the world, people get dressed, mostly for the same reasons.

This book aims to provide a broad conceptual and theoretical perspective of apparel manufacturing process starting from raw material selection to packaging and dispatch of goods.

This book details the development of textile products and deals with different aspects of fabric structure and textile design.

This student lab manual reinforces the chapter content and lecture material from Apparel Quality, but may also be used as a standalone product in conjunction with another apparel quality textbook.

This book presents a systematic study on methods used for the creation of weave patterns for simple structures.

This book includes fundamentals of textile processing technology with explanation of craft techniques, various stages of processing fibres and yarns with useful, readily understandable, line drawings.

Fashion is a glamorous industry, one of beauty, money, fame, and huge profits.

Fashion Retail Supply Chain Management: A Systems Optimization Approach is a comprehensive reference source that provides the state-of-the-art findings on many important emerging research issues related to retail supply chain management and optimization problems.

Principally focussed on the combing process, the initial chapters of this book explain the basic functioning of the conventional comber, which is not very different from modern combing.

Computer-aided figured graph designing (CAFGD) has become essential for the electronic jacquard weaving sector.