In the hills of southwest China, centuries of isolation have led the people of Miao nationality to cultivate a unique culture and dress style that few outsiders would recognize -- unless you saw the Disney animated film Mulan 2. While ethnologists fret over cultures endangered by the encroachment of modern life, many ethnic skills and motifs are being reinvented and incorporated into global culture -- particularly in the field of fashion. "From 2004 to 2006, I mailed many embroidery pieces

Bangladesh's home textile export growth in first 11 months of the just concluded 2008-09 fiscal year slowed down to 10.14 percent against the same period a year earlier as global recession hurt market in developed counties, officials said on Tuesday. According to statistics of the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB), the South Asian country fetched 290.36 million U.S. dollars from exports of home textile items like bed linen, kitchen curtain, mosquito nets, bed pad as well as furnishing fibre in

Dow Corning Corporation, a leader in innovative silicone technology for the textile industry, has added two new product lines to its Dow Corning brand Active Protection System family of impact protection materials. The S-Range is based on 3D spacer textile technology while the TP-Range is based on thermoplastic technology. The two new lines were recently introduced at Techtextil 2009 in Frankfurt, Germany. First launched in 2006, the patented silicone-based impact protection materials are comfor

Serial Number Product Name Width(cm) Specification/Weight Price Nylon/Polyester Bleached Organza Curtain Gauze 280 Nylon/Polyester 30DX20D/37 Shuttle 4.00 yuan/m All-cotton Pad-dyed Drill 150 21SX16S 128X60 11.80 yuan/m All-cotton Pad-dyed Drill 150 16SX12S 108X56 12.80 yuan/m All-cotton Pad-dyed Faille 150 20SX20S 100X55 9.40 yuan/m Multi-chemical fiber Satin Brocade 150 450 g/m 10.00 yuan/m Multi-chemical fiber Serge 150 450 g/m 1

——Brief Analysis on Foreign Trade Index of July. 2009 (Chart1) (Chart 2) As Chart 1 and Chart 2 indicates, foreign trade prosperity index of July, 2009 closed at 1259.64 points, down 18.70% from last month, tending to decline apparently; Foreign trade price index closed at 73.72 points, up 2.68% from last month and tending to climb up. Foreign trade confidence index closed at 927.38 points, down 5.06% from last month in a declining tendency. A. The textile foreign trade pro

——Brief Analysis on Price Index 20090803 Recently, due to the cloudy and rainy weather, sometimes strong rains, less target customers entered the markets of China textile city. Some spot transactions shrank as the daily transactions fluctuated in a certain range. Autumn mid-heavy fabrics continued to increase in the market, some large salesrooms still receive large orders for various products; In T/R wool-like, multi-chemical fiber wool-like and all-cotton conventional dyed fabric, autumn

——Brief Analysis on Prosperity Index of July, 2009 (Chart 1) As Chart 1 shows, the general prosperity index of July, 2009 closed at 1103.29 points, down by 14.62% from last month. In it, the general prosperity index on raw materials closed at 994.66 points, down 1.90%, declining from last month; grey cloths closed at 913.23 points, down 4.20%, dropping sharply from last month; apparel fabrics closed at 1336.37 points, down 29.64% from last month; home textile closed at 904.09points, up 6

The first round of the Sino-US strategic economic dialogue was held on July 27 in Washington. Five issues are concerned in the economic field by China and the United States, they are addressing financial crisis, maintaining stability of assets in U.S. dollar, exchange rate, strengthening energy cooperation and trade protection. At present, mainstream views of the two countries agree that the current economic recovery is not solid, it is not the proper time to make major adjustments in macro-

Indian textile exporters have entered Pakistani market through Afghan Transit Trade (ATT). Sources said at present several markets in Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar are flooded with highly competitive Indian polyester. However, it is not being imported through legal channels and goods imported for ATT are being sold in local market. After released from Pakistani ports, ATT goods are not transited to Afghanistan and major imported containers are emptied in different local markets especially Lah

Cotton linter price went down because traders undersold the goods and cotton pulp plants tried to talk down the price due to falling VSF rate and weak sales of cotton pulp. Domestic VSF plants now reduced the proportion of cotton pulp in production, so not many deals were concluded. For dissolving pulp, foreign suppliers generally stopped offering and domestic traders lowered selling idea of spot goods to 7000yuan/mt or even lower. VSF sales ratio was low and high-end plants increased the pr