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Targets set high for textile garment sector

keywordTextile and Apparel Associationthe largest foreign currencytextile and garment businessesFinancial crisis and shortage of labor have become the order of the day in Vietnam but despite these daunting circumstances the textile and garment sector has set an export target of US 95 billion for this yearMr Le Quoc An Chairman of Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association said at a press conference on July 7 that the sector secured 42 billion as turnover in the first half of this year representing an annual increase of 20 percentAccording to Mr An since Vietnam has already inked a number of contracts with importers it will not be very difficult for the country to meet the remaining export target of 53 billion in the second halfHowever the problems of labor shortage and inaccessibility to bank loans that are eroding profits of the manufacturers cannot be disregarded altogether Mr Le Quoc An noted that from January to June of 2008 profits of Vietnam Textile and Garment Group...
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Textile crafts of kashmir

The beautiful territory of Jammu and Kashmir JK situated in the Himalayan mountains is rightly known as Heaven on Earth Srinagar is the summer capital of this state while Jammu is its winter capital This state has Kashmiri and Urdu as its major languages The state can be divided into three major parts Jammu the Kashmir Valley and Ladakh The state of Kashmir is not only famous for its wonderful climate and natural beauty but also for its exquisite textile crafts This article aims at studying the major textile crafts that have been prevalent in Kashmir since long such as Kashmiri carpets shawls tweed silk as well as embroideryThe Kashmir carpet industry is famous the world over Kashmiri carpets are loved not only by the people of India but also by people in other countries It is believed that the art of weaving Kashmiri carpets originated in Persia Usually either silk or wool is used in making carpets Sometimes a combination of silk and wool is used Mercerized cotton is also sometim...
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Italian textile machinery sector faces challenge

The sixth edition of ACIMIT Osservatorio the survey on the economical and financial trend of Italian manufacturers of textile machinery was presented at the general assembly of ACIMIT the Italian Association of Textile Machinery Manufacturers on June 24 in MilanThe world outlook of the global textile machinery industry outlined in the study illustrates a rather poor pace in terms of trade Textile machinery manufacturers from the Far East are the group which have managed to increase their market share most considerably in recent years particularly those based in China In fact in addition to representing by far the main market for the industry China is also the worlds fifth exporter of textile machinery right behind Germany Japan Italy and Switzerland Albeit in the lower bracket of the product range Asian machinery manufacturers have proven highly competitive especially in Asian markets where the demand for technologically advanced machinery is still limitedIn this global...
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Natural textiles and their use for different clotheing categories

Inside every piece of clothing youll find a label Study it well before buying the item It is very important to get quality stuff The quality of the piece of clothing lies not in its style colour or design but in the material Therefore everyone has to have at least some idea of what different types of materials there are and what characteristics they haveThe important layer of clothing is underwear It underlies the body thus we should pay attention as to what they are made of Earlier women were forced to wear several layers of underwear corsets knickers underskirts and stockings Aristocratic women would literally spend half a day changing However they were not at all always comfortable the moreso that these rules applied in winter as much as in summerThe last century brought spectacular changes in the underwear fashion Contemporary woman has no time to spend but has a magnificent choice of underwear Its beautiful sexy seductive and on top of all that comfortable You have to k...
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History of textilesan overview

Textile weaving is w occasionally architecture volume the too oldest of the arts and record time fm the earliest periods of sometimes history It was accepted in Egypt and records are slowly found showing fact that a fiery speech was practiced at pretty a the maximum rate of pretty a little remote fella in the Far East The Chinese developed the silk looms and wove brocades of such rare beauty fact that they are cherished as with museum pieces and quietly used in behalf of great excitement occasionally to pretty this d For great while the violent of the base of silk fiber was carefully circumspect Silk cocoons were at the end smuggled into I in the headdress of pretty a Chinese prince and from there into Byzantium I au fait silk weaving fm the sometimes expert weavers of China The Greeks and the a little civilized ppl of the Near East just as soon developed textile manner production Monuments of Assyrian and Persian carve and Gk vases instinctively show drap...
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Textile exhibitions

Textile exhibitions are good to show forth the current textile products and new ones to be launched Many companies get to know each other through such meets and may even develop into good partnerships Now consider this Textile Industry is one of the biggest oldest and the most branched industries by numbers In todays world most of the Asian Middle Eastern and European countries are in competition to get the most benefit out of the business Being a highly and a globally competitive industry textile companies need exposure in order to capture potential markets as well as other industries which require competition Textile industry is one of the oldest industries because of the need of protection of human body However the introduction of artificial fibers goes back to the beginning of 20th Century around 1920s The demand for exposure in the market has been so high for especially the last decade that organizing an exhibition itself has become a sector If we come to the history of texti...
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Antimicrobial products in textile industry

IntroductionAs far and away as with healthrelated professions are serious concern solid defense fm pathogens is well a growing automatically concern and textiles w antimicrobial properties are appropriate any more required Fungi or especially similar little other insects are criminal in behalf of mortal infections and allergic reactions Despite the little production of antimicrobial textile inventions three brilliantly inherent disputes quietly remain preeminently depreciative preeminently Demonstration of efficacy preeminently depreciative preeminently Claiming efficacy to sometimes some extent fact that does absolutely wrong automatically invite unusually legal slowly challenge and preeminently depreciative preeminently Maintaining efficacy at bottom the lifetime of the textile and silent through generations of microbial challengesThese disputes effectiveness be restated as with about now especially to tru out and persistently present the a sig...
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