A unique fair, that brings together the best in Indian Apparel & Accessories, Fabrics, Home Furnishings & Made-ups, Indian Handicrafts, Wool & Woolen products, Jute and Carpets – all under one roof. A blend of the traditional and the modern, Tex Trends India 2012, will be the biggest ever event on Indian textiles featuring over 400 exhibitors and 2000 global buyers displaying diverse range of products from the entire length and breadth of the country. Shri Anand Sharma Union Textiles Minister inaugurated the show, here today. Speaking on the occasion Shri Sharma said, “I am happy to you inform you that the Tex-Trends India 2012 is being held from 16th – 18th July 2012.   Fair will truly be a showcase of the strengths of the entire Indian textile industry. Tex Trends India 2012 aims to provide the biggest platform in Asia to the exporters and the buyers. The event (Tex Trends) will showcase India’s huge potential as an exporting country and will offer a great variety for its global buyers.”

The Prologue to the first book in the Engineering with Fibers series provides some history leading up to modern nonwovens technology.

With the exception of wool felts, fabric making has historically involved the conversion of fibers into yarns and yarns into fabrics, primarily by weaving, knitting or lace making. The beauty of these technologies lies in their ability to assemble thousands, indeed millions, of individual fibers — themselves weak, difficult to handle and sometimes functionally useless — into integrated products that are strong, foldable, absorbent, soft, and permeable. Most fascinating, the fabric is often held together, in a highly ordered structural fashion, by frictional forces only. As such, the woven, knit and lace fabrics on the one hand, and wool felts on the other, take the old dictum "there is strength in numbers" a significant step further: "there is even more strength in ordered numbers."

Indian exporters want textiles & apparel pact with EU

Garment exporters in India have urged the Government to sign a textiles and clothing trade pact with the EU, prior to entering into a free trade agreement (FTA).