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We are pleased to announce two new exhibitions for summer 2013. Milestones: Textiles of Transition will explore how historic and contemporary textiles have been created for and continue to signify moments of transition—birth, marriage, and death, among others. Threads of Love: Baby Carriers from China’s Minority Nationalities, originally exhibited at Indiana University in 2012, showcases a private collection of embroidered baby carriers from southwestern China. Both exhibitions open with a press

A full line of blades designed to cut and finish rolls of paper, film and foil, corrugated materials, textiles and abrasives down to size is available from Hyde Industrial Blade Solutions (IBS). Hyde's Score Slitter Blades, complemented by a line of Perforator Blades for finishing products, are engineered to provide clean cuts consistently when taking materials down to sheets. Also known as "crush cutters" Hyde's Score Slitter Blades convert rolls of materials into sheets or smaller sections

Thai paraxylene producer PTT Aromatics and Refining has concluded its 2013 term supply contracts at a premium of around $14/mt, up from last year's $9/mt, a company source said Wednesday. The producer settles its annual supply contracts based on a formula of 50% PX Asia contract price and 50% Platts CFR Taiwan/China spot price plus an "alpha" or premium that it negotiates with buyers. For the 2012 term supply, PTTAR had offered three to four cargoes of 5,000 mt each. For 2013, while the exac

A cotton farmer resting at the Enumamula agricultural market in Warangal in AP. The cotton crisis in Andhra Pradesh has cast its shadow on the meeting convened by the Andhra Pradesh Government to discuss the cottonseed price. Farmers’ leaders, non-governmental organisations and farmers’ associations affiliated to all political parties have refused to take part in the discussions on the seed price. TO SOLVE MARKETING ISSUE FIRST They walked out of the meeting held at the Agriculture Com

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As the domestic cotton season (August 2012 - July 2013) is advancing fast, dearth of quality numbers in the foreseeable future is keeping lint prices on a steady plane. It is projected that seedcotton (Kapas/Phutti) arrivals of about 11.7 million domestic size bales will have reached the ginning factories till the 1st of January, 2013. By January 1, 2013 domestic mills will have lifted about 9.5 million local size bales, the exporters nearly 200,000 bales while ginners will still be holding abou

Xiangyang City in Hubei Province recently has mapped out the five-year plan for developing farm produces and downstream processing industries. It plans to invest CNY 3.1 billion in setting up a number of key projects, so as to improve production technology and equipment level and promote the transformation and upgrading of textile industry. The cotton processing project of Yicheng Xinghua Industrial and Trade Co. is designed to process annually 10,000 tons of cotton seeds, 10,000 tons of cotto

Sacramento Fashion Week, the Californian fashion fest that aims to highlight the exclusivity and needs of local fashion industry, is going to take place from February 24 to March 2, 2013. Produced by Magnum Opus Enterprises, the event would serve as a meeting ground for fashion designers, models, photographers, advertising agencies, fine exhibitors and entrepreneurs from the beauty, fashion and entertainment industry. Other than a series of catwalk shows featuring exclusive creations by t