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Related Keywords: fabric, Fashion of Institute of Textiles and Clothing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Textile and Apparel Artificial Intelligence, textile manufacturers, textile manufacturing, weaving process

Textile manufacturers at present depend on human efforts to randomly examine the fabric by naked eyes. Due to human factors such as carelessness or physical exhaustion, defect detection by human labour is usually uncertain and unreliable. Textile manufacturers also made an effort to use some other fabric inspection systems, but those systems were not able to meet the industry needs. Safeguarding quality in the fabric production becomes a great challenge to the industry.

Related Keywords: cheaper than 100 percent cotton, combines polyester yarn with cotton, create high thread count fabric, Dallas company, dries faster, fabric called Alpha Cotton, marketing arm of Mumbai based Alok Industries, Nextt, received patent, trademarked name, washes easier, weaving process

Dallas company Nextt, the marketing arm of Mumbai, India-based Alok Industries has received patent for a weaving process that combines polyester yarns with cotton to create a high-thread count fabric that is 30 to 40 percent cheaper than 100 percent cotton. The patent covers yarn and fabric made of at least 51 percent cotton.

The fabric is called Alpha Cotton, a trademarked name, and is used primarily for making sheets. It is already garnering annual sales of about $1 billion, which is expected to grow to more than $2 billion within the next two years.

Related Keywords: Bengal Lounge, Fashion Design Council of Bangladesh, local designers, ode to textile weaves, reinstil heritage loom, Tangail sari, weaving process

Fashion Design Council of Bangladesh in joint venture with Bengal Lounge will present a festival -- An Ode to Textile Weaves, to re-instill the pride in the mindset of the Bengali fashionist regarding heritage loom. The Tangail sari which epitomizes textile weaves; it has existed in the history of Bengal for quite a while, and till date.

Related Keywords: Handloom Act, imitation product, legislation, Pashmina, powerloom spinning, Taar, weaving process, world famous textile

The authorities in Jammu and Kashmir are planning to introduce a legislation to preserve the world famous textile, Pashmina. As there are a rapidly increasing power looms spinning imitation products which is posing serious challenge to the very existence of Pashmina shawls.
Once the legislation is passed and Pashmina is included in the reserved category, the power looms spinning Pashmina shawls manifold but the genuineness and superiority of the product have been compromised will become illegal.