Textilesare a part and parcel of every culture that has lived in the past and that willbe in the future. It was used as means of clothing in the past but todayscenario is nowhere similar to that used to be. Textilesare being used everywhere, right from the clothing which we use to the fabricson the planet to the high-tech suits used by the astronauts in the space beyondour planet. Textiles are indispensible, though we have seen a lot of ups anddowns in the years from past.

Weunderstand that production and quality are the two main aspects of any textilemanufacturer but the latter one that is quality is a wide term which we have tofamiliarise with. Its not just the production of the fabric within theparameter norms, but the whole construction, their design, the value additionrequired. But normally this is not used in all the areas of textiles except forsome areas like Hometextiles. Innovation is the name of the game here. We needto be innovating in all the areas possible, we need to innovate in all theareas in which we feel, there is a profit and end use. We will discuss in thispaper, the various innovations in the weaving machinery for making it flexibleto produce the different fabrics that are required today by the users both thecommercial users and the functional users that is used in the TechnicalTextiles.

Whenwe think about a fabric that we want to weave, we think about the way it looks,the way it feels, and the way it should work. In case of an apparel fabric andthe upholstery and other common use fabrics, normally the way the fabric feelsor looks will have an equal weightage with the way it works. But when a fabricis produced for a functional use, as the name suggests, the way the fabricworks scores above the way it feels or looks. In other words, the function ofthe fabric is very important, not its aesthetic value.

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The Author is a TextileTechnologist