A Guide to Textile Cleaning and Considerations
With the wide range of fabrics, vinyl and other coated materials in the market today, as well as an ever-increasing number of finishes, cleaning of contract textiles is a complex...
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Know Your Fabric Finish Options
Fabric technology has developed so that many quality commercial fabrics inherently meet standards for commercial use in flame retardancy, abrasion, antimicrobials, lightfastness, etc. But it is common for many designers to request...
New Cotton by Argaman Technologies is Germ & Fire Resistant
Jerusalem-based Argaman Technologies has introduced an innovative bio-inhibitive cotton that can be used on products ranging from face masks to hotel linens. CottonX, as the new technology is called, was invented by textile...
Easy Guide to Spot Cleaning Crypton Contract Fabrics
Architects and designers tell us that in their contract projects, one of the most frequent questions from the client side involves not aesthetics, not even facility planning or engineering, but...
New Fabric from Recycled Fiber Almost Feels Like Cotton
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a fabric using a method that involves dissolving worn and discarded cotton, and using it as a raw material for new fiber. The...
Wyzenbeek Performance Testing
For some time the contract textile industry has been disconcerted by the variability of Wyzenbeek Performance test results. Results can and do vary significantly even when the same fabric is...
Do Abrasion Tests Indicate Durability?
The contract textile industry has struggled for years with the negative impact of ever-increasing abrasion resistance numbers. Recognizing that these numbers are believed to represent lifespan and durability for contract...
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