Textile

Valerie Steele’s essay, A Museum of Fashion is More Than a Clothes Bag, points out that the research which is based on objects would provide a unique view about the development of fashion (1998, p327). And according to Prown, object analysis follows three stages. The analysis starts with a comprehensive description, recording the outer qualities of the object. The second stage is the deduction, interacting a more open reflection between the object and the perceiver. Finally, the analysis causes…

two patents: one in Germany in 1934 and one in London in 1937 (p.56). Textile’s characteristics, such as functional, unremarkable, sometimes generic and mass-produced, often rendered textiles unattributed. Her motivation to seek patents comes primarily from her identity as a woman in a rather anonymous field of textile industry. She understood the difficulty of the under-recognized Bauhaus students and Bauhaus’ emphasis on the communal entity, which replaced the…

Traditionally, only the big names, the giants of the industry ruled the textile market. It was like a monopoly cartel of the big players of the textile industry. The renowned names / brands like GulAhmed, Sapphire, Lakhany, Al-Karam Textiles, Lala Textiles and the likes ruled the market. But now, beginning around five to six years ago, things in the textile industry have changed. It is no more the ruling of the big shots. The “designer lawn” has hit the market. Launching and maintaining a brand…

In summary, the up-cycling company is a place where customers can either buy products already up-cycled by students or come to learn up-cycling textiles by themselves under the instructions of lecturers and students. The company’s vision is to promote the creative capacity as well as the interest in up-cycling textiles of not only design and fashion students but also all the customers. As mentioned previously, the business model of the up-cycling company is structured based on the business model…

Things to keep in Mind The Afterlife of clothing is not always what we imagine. When tossing a old shirt , donating some jeans, or recycling some fabric; it has a bigger impact on life in America. As consumers we must strive to do better with our textile dispensing, because every little bit matters. Americans send about 10.5 million garments to landfills every year. What could happen if the State communities committed to turning that number into half? After donating clothing only a portion…

Carolina counties would be touched by the changes and offerings, but would they be the answer for the unemployed, starving and homeless, and would they be a benefit for the future growth of the great state. The emphasis would be on the farmers and the textile industry which had been their greatest markets. In September of 1936, President Roosevelt himself passed through Rutherford County with…

America has been leading the world in the cotton industry for over 200 years (Rivoli 7). This is surprising for many reasons. America is competing with the world’s poorest, least developed countries. These countries have some of the lowest labor costs in the world whereas America’s labor costs are among the world’s highest (Rivoli 5). Another surprising factor is that cotton itself seems like a doubtful contestant for economic success. Despite these factors, America has continued to remain the…

Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade by Pietra Rivoli follows the life of a t-shirt, from cotton farms in Lubbock, Texas, to the textile factories in China, back to America, and then to used-clothes vendors in Tanzania. Along the way, Rivoli discussed the political, economic, and social forces that affect the textile industry, free trade, and globalization. Rivoli’s journey began when a student activist at Georgetown University asked “Who made your T-shirt?” during…

differences of this process. But i believe that Japan mechanized alter than India due to the importance of women from farming families to work at textile factories. (Documents 3,5,9) In documents 3,5 and 9 they talk about the condition of the labor the people who worked at the textile factories had to go through even with the mechanizing of the textile factory. For example in document 3 and 9, they say that the workers are paid small amounts of money and have to work ~ 2 years. Regardless…

New World the indigenous people were manufacturing textiles that were pure red. This caused many people in the Old World to become excited about the true red. In the Old World red, which was not a true red, but a dark orange, textile was very rare and often owned by only rich and powerful people. People in the Americas figured out a way to make red textiles in big numbers from an insect that lives on a prickly pear cactus. The red textile textile made from the insect that the indigenous…