The Los Angeles International Textile Show for spring/summer 2019, which ran March 5 - 7th, celebrated its 25th Anniversary by showcasing a variety of fabrics, including interesting applications for the home fashions market. The FabricLink Network highlights several of the important home dècor color and fabric trends, and reviews some of the companies exhibiting fabrics for home dècor, upholstery and window applications.
11 Eco Upholstery Textiles Revolutionizing the Global Market - The 11 textiles below are some of the greenest and smartest now available to the residential and contract furnishings market.
Italy's Ohoskin partners with Recarbon to develop sustainable material - The new material, produced by combining Ohoskin’s leather alternative made from orange and cactus byproducts with Recarbon’s recycled carbon fibre,
What fabrics work best together? 6 go-to fabric combinations designers love
From linen and velvet to florals and stripes, these fabric combinations are timeless
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Scientific studies on microplastics indicate alarming conclusion
The scientific evidence is now more than sufficient: collective global action is urgently needed to tackle microplastics—and the problem has never been more pressing.
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Low-temperature process for difficult-to-recycle plastics, including PVC
A low-temperature chemical recycling process has the potential to return difficult-to-treat plastics such as LDPE, HDPE and PVC back into oils to be remade into plastics or other products.
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Avantium demonstrates scalability of chemical recycling
Its method produces a glucose solution from the cotton portion of the mixed textiles that is easily separated from the polyester components.
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San Francisco gallery offers meditative escape through woven textile landscapes
To create these image-based textiles, Wolowiec begins by printing a digital photograph onto loose threads combed out horizontally.
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