As a textile lecturer and designer I am interested in the intersection between emerging technologies and traditional textile practice. Exploring the structural properties of a fabric and creating potentially new geometries or systems in cloth and pattern are a key interest....

Consumer electronics are typically designed with a battery power source and are carried in light limited pockets or bags. The marriage of electronic devices and wearables provides the opportunity to utilize surfaces exposed to the sun to generate energy to power the electronic devices....

The world economy has changed in significant ways during the past several decades, especially in the areas of international trade and industrial organization. Two of the most important new features of the contemporary economy are the globalization of production and trade...

Present Market and Growth of Technical Textiles: According to a paper prepared by the Ministry of Textiles on technical textile industry, world market for technical Textiles products to around 23.77 million tonnes by 2010, worth $127 billion and among them India and China will be global demand growth driver for Asia...

Today, the well-known 3-roller double-apron drafting systems of ring spinning frames permit to draft rovings up to a total draft of 80 and more under optimum conditions. The task of the break-draft zone is to introduce the sliding process of the fibres of the twisted roving. In the subsequent main draft zone, the fibre strand is guided between the top and the bottom aprons and drafted to the desired final count of the yarn...

It is difficult for textile finishing to escape the image of being an industry which causes emissions. However, there are ways to drastically reduce the difficulties associated with wet chemical processes. The report describes the increasing global problems in the area of water and energy policies, and presents a case study which demonstrates how it can be possible to run waste water free textile finishing operations...