Sunbrella fabrics featuring recycled content continue to expand with the latest addition from internationally acclaimed home furnishings designer Richard Frinier. His newest creation for Sunbrella, “Origins’,” takes advantage of the rich surface texture and mottled color ways that are making Sunbrella Renaissance fabrics increasingly popular with the design trade and consumers. "We are living in a time when people are more interested than ever in reducing our carbon footprint," Frinier said.

Beginning Sunday, January 27, Cricket Radio will exhibit four new lines of luxury linen home products at the twice-annual New York International Gift Fair (NYIGF). Cricket Radio is a Vermont-based company specializing in hand-printed, sustainable linens featuring globally inspired designs. Launched in the summer of 2012, Cricket Radio brings an ethnic-modern sensibility to the home with a refreshing mix of the traditional and primitive, in both classic and unexpected color combinations. This

Micro Modal Edelweiss is produced in Austria at Lenzing AG from European beech wood and consists of 100 % renewable, natural raw material. Beech wood is not grown on forestry plantations, beech wood forests occur frequently in Northern and Central Europe where they have shaped the landscape of these regions for centuries. The stock of beech wood is obtained as a result of "rejuvenation". High crop in spite of low demand for land, refrain from using agro-chemicals and irrigation, characterize thi

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The export of Nepali readymade garments has dropped by more than half as compared to exports about a decade back. Statistics of the Trade and Export Promotion Center reveal that Nepali readymade garments (RMG) that used to have an annual export of around Rs 12 billion some five to six years back has now dropped by more than half. In fiscal year 2011-12, total export of Nepali RMG was worth Rs 4.05 billion while the figure of first five months of the current fiscal year is around Rs 1.55 billi

Japan is forecasted to replace the European Union and become the second biggest garment and textile importer of the Vietnamese products in 2013. Le Tien Truong, deputy chairman of Vitas, said that in 2013, the United States would continue to be the biggest export market of the Vietnamese firms. Japan was predicted to usurp the EU as the second biggest garment and textile importer of the Vietnamese products. According to Vitas, in 2013 Vietnam’s garment and textile export turnover would inc

The textile industry is expected to employ an additional 1,000 workers this year, business picking up in textile factories lately. Their order books are now full, as opposed to a few months back where the factories were on the verge of laying off some of their staff, a sources monitoring the industry said. One example is the New Island Clothing of CIEL Textile Group which has to recruit around an additional 300 workers. About 70 foreigners have already been recruited (40 from Madagascar and 30

Brazil's textile and garment production is expected to grow up to 2 percent this year based on an anticipated 3-percent expansion of the country's GDP, the industry said Monday. Aguinaldo Diniz Filho, president of the Brazilian Textile and Garment Association (ABIT), told a press conference that the industry should perform better than in 2012, when textile output fell 4.6 percent while garment production retreated 10.5 percent from January to November. He added that the sector should gross US

Pakistan's textile exports increased by 8.55 per cent to $6.458 billion during July-December period of the current fiscal year (2012-13) as compared to $5.590 billion in the same period of last year. According to the figures of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), the textile exports registered handsome growth of over 12.48 per cent in December 2012 and were recorded at $1.058 billion compared with $1.009 billion of the same period last year. According to figures, in textiles group, the produ

The textile industry circles said on Wednesday that possibility of half a billion dollar growth in textile industry exports were very much likely with uninterrupted energy supply to the industry. According to them, the overall growth may have been much impressive in case there was uninterrupted energy supply to the industry. "It would have been $1.5 billion in case there was a flow of electricity and gas to the industry during December," said one industry analyst, adding: "The exports stood ar