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    • Sewing History Revisted
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    • Who is the Unknown Stranger?
    • Don’t Discount Value of Associations
    • Focus on Tech Suggests IAF President
    • Is Sewing a Dying Skill
    • Technology is Crucial to Manufacturing
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    • Apparel May See Fewer Orders
    • Time to Close an Import Loophole
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    • Tukatech and Inèdit Partner
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    • Cone Denim Joins CIRCULOSE Network
    • Best of Bangladesh in Amsterdam
    • OECD Study: Latest Trends
    • Fire-Dex Takes Over Kitsbow Facility
    • Former Hickey Freeman Factory
    • Introducing The Bremen Cotton Exchange
    • VF Corp Names Bracken Darrell
    • Ocean State Innovations Acquires Cloud9
    • Nike's New Aerogami Technology
    • Texprocess Americas Innovation Awards
    • Career and Training Center at Texprocess
    • Seamless Transition at Dürkopp-Adler
    • Elevate Recapitalization-New Ownership
    • Dürkopp Adler Acquires Sonotronic
    • Freudenberg Certification
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    • Hodges International and Tukatech
    • Lectra Brings Production Back In-House
    • Zünd-Texprocess Americas 202
    • CGS Issues 2023 Report
    • NC Textile Manufacturer to Invest $24mil
    • Inspectorio Rise Expands
    • Next Level Apparel Partners With Grupo M
    • AAFA Formalizes Partnership with IFAI
    • Outlook into Fashion Future
    • Turkish Manufacturers Resume
    • TGSD Fighting Quake Aftermath
    • Open Letter to International Apparel
    • OECD in Paris
    • Nazma Akter’s Opening Key Note
    • Methods Workshop Under New Management
    • APTMA Rejects Claims
    • Style3D Announces Acquisition of Assyst
    • APTMA, BGMEA to Enhance Cooperation
    • Zünd Establishes a New Subsidiary
    • Black Design Collective
    • Senate Passes Bill
    • Japanese Garment Giants Leave China
    • NC State and Under Armour Partnership
    • Rieter’s Financial Commitment
    • Classic Fashion
    • Garland Apparel Group
    • Amazon Shuts Online Store Fabric.com
    • Gas Supply Crunch Stifles Bangladesh
    • Stitch 3D and Hatch Join Forces
    • Sonobond Becomes Part of Inductotherm
    • M&S to Exit from Sourcing in Myanmar
    • A Global Brand Preserves Carolina Legacy
    • 3DLook
    • Dürkopp Adler Universal Sewing Drives
    • U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol
    • BGMEA, Tonello to Partner
    • Canadian Defence Minister Announcement
    • Tukatech launches GP-800 High Ply Cutter
    • 3D Avatars in PLM
    • New York Governor Pledges 10 Million
    • Merrow Superior Acquires Goldberg Supply
    • OECD Nations Face Labor Shortages
    • New Management for Heimtextil, TT, TP
    • Clothing Textile Flammability Standard
    • EU Moves to Ban Forced Labor Products
    • Bangladesh Eyes 100 Billion USD Exports
    • U.S.-Honduras Education Partnership
    • Juki-Mitsuishi-Meiryo Joint Venture
    • Cut-and-Sew Manufacturing Returns to NC
    • Due Diligence for Supply Chains
    • Sae-A Factory in Costa Rica
    • DuPont Joins Forces With Heriot-Watt
    • Datacolor Announces Partnerships
    • Reshoring Latin America
    • Lectra Recognized by Deloitte
    • LYCRA Company Browzwear Partnership
    • Frankfurt Tradeshow Trio
    • 2022 Innovation Awards by Messe Frankfur
    • The LYCRA Company
    • Meta Announces
    • US Textile and Apparel Exports Up
    • How to Hone Honduras’s Potential
    • Australian T-Shirt Producer Looking
    • Okabashi Brands Growing
    • Kraig Biocraft Laboratories
    • Sri Lanka Defaults on Debt
    • Small Brands Are The Future
    • Zund America Announces Manuel Merkt
    • Lectra’s Chess Move
    • Eastman Machine Co. and ACG Nyström
    • Elevate Releases Sustainability Report
    • Valentino Garavani Turns 90
    • Standing With Ukraine
    • BELLA+CANVAS
    • Intrdeco Holdings
    • Textile Industry Preparing
    • Lectra Equips Bespoke Manufacturing Co.
    • Eastman Appointed Airborne Partner
    • Software Tools for Automatic Cutting
    • Buy Local
    • i-SMART Globally Launched
    • Sewn Products Reshoring Award
    • Latin American Apparel Exports Growing
    • Increasing Exports
    • NextGenerationEU Package
    • Coloreel Hirsch Expand Partnership
    • Henderson and Optio Partnership
    • Q1 2022 Barometer
    • Needs to Bring Factories into Compliance
    • College Partnerships
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    • Vietnam Garment and Textiles
    • OEKO-TEX New Regulations 2022
    • Alvanon Launches Fit Studio in Milan
    • National Safety Apparel
    • Rising Star Amiri Opens in Miami
    • Eastman Promotions
    • Freudenberg House of Sustainability
    • Gildan Expands
    • DenimFWD Opens “Urban Factory"
    • Shima Seiki USA Relocates
    • Worker Rights Consortium
    • Zegna Goes Public
    • Sewn Products Reshoring Awards
    • NCTO Welcomes Buy American Waiver Proces
    • People Increasingly Worried
    • Messe Frankfurt Restructures
    • California to Require Garment Industry
    • Merrow Manufacturing
    • EFI Reggiani TERRA Silver
    • JUKI Launches ShuHaRi App
    • Eastman Machine Exhibition
    • Ricoma Vinyl Cutters
  • Industry Technologies
    • Seams and Stitches (Part 1)
    • ZCC Zünd Cut Center
    • Lectra Launches New Cutting Equipment
    • Exploring the Future
    • Leather Made from Beer
    • Sewng with Threads, Part 3
    • Smart Textiles Enable Communications
    • Sewng with Threads, Part 2
    • Sewng with Threads, Part 1
    • Kornit Rolls Out New Curing Technology
    • Researchers Separate Cotton From Poly
    • AI-based Business Planning and Forecast
    • What’s Happening in 3D CAD for Fashion
    • PFAFF Launches New Machine
    • JUKI Renews DDL-9000C Series
    • Automation Eases RMG Workload
    • Fabric Cutting Optimization (Part 3)
    • Technology Drives Luenthai
    • Brief History of the Sewing Needle
    • Today’s Sewing Needles
    • Industrial Sewing Thread Needle Sizes
    • Sewing Machine Needle Buyers Guide
    • US DoD Partners with OROS
    • Always in the Comfort Zone
    • YKK Develops AquaGuard NATULON
    • Bespoke Selects Zebra AMRs
    • Walmart Introduces Virtual Try-on Tech
    • Fabric Cutting Optimization (Part 1)
    • On-Demand Manufacturing
    • Coats Digital Launches FastReactFabric
    • Fashinza Apparel Manufacturing Platform
    • Fabric Spreading
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    • Embedding Fundamental 3D Transformation
    • China’s Tech Giants Test the Waters
    • S.W Specialty Papers
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    • Digital Cutting Software from Zünd
    • Cameras on Cutters
    • 3D: No Wonder Tool
    • Automation Gaining Ground
    • Jeanologia Introduces Colorbox
    • Part 3 - Artificial Intelligence
    • The Metaverse Is Just An Idea
    • Commerce Department Awards $54 Million
    • Part 2 - Artificial Intelligence
    • Speed PLUS Variety - Elastane Processing
    • Part 1 - Artificial Intelligence
    • Digital Thread & Yarn Dyeing System
    • Brother DTG GTX
    • Roland DG Unveils New Textile Printer
    • Same Day Spare Parts
    • Tukatech’s TUKA3D
    • RSG Automation Solutions
    • Gerber Technology Ideation
    • dur Needles from Groz-Beckert
    • Future of Textiles
    • Cutting
  • Industry Leaders
    • In Memoriam: Dorothy Fullam
    • In Memoriam Harry van Dalfsen
    • Frank Henderson Receives SEAMS Award
  • Supply Chain
    • H&M Begins Exit from Myanmar
    • Factory Strikes Flare Up in China
    • Uniqlo to Have Manufacturing in India
    • Sri Lanka Garment Manufacturing
    • Philippine Garments Industry
    • Sri Lankan Apparel Industry Crisis
    • Sourcing in Africa, Part 4
    • Sourcing in Africa, Part 5
    • Chinese ‘Fast Fashion’ Brands
    • Chinese Brands Mishandled Customer Data
    • Sourcing in Africa (Part 1)
    • Sourcing in Africa (Part 2)
    • Sourcing in Africa (Part 3)
    • Covid-19 Outbreaks
    • US Ports Face Empty Containers
    • Is Reshoring/Nearshoring Tide Turnin
    • Traceability
    • Find a Reliable Manufacturer
    • Cambodian Garment Industry
    • Li & Fung – Maersk Partnership
    • Central America Apparel Supply Chain
    • Supply Chain Problems
    • Apparel Industry Supply Chain Issues
    • Supply Chain Shortage Update
  • Sustainability
    • Lycra Initiative to Support FitSense
    • Messe Frankfurt’s Textile Trade Shows
    • Alpine Fit Joins 1% for the Planet
    • IAF Food for Thought
    • Sustainable Apparel Coalition Report
    • STTI Update: June 2023
    • Sustainable Cotton Hub
    • Vaude: PFAS-Free in All Apparel Fabrics
    • European Industry Associations
    • HanesBrands Sustainability Goas
    • Freudenberg Milestone
    • Freudenberg Mlestone Innovation
    • Gildan Publishes Climate Change Report
    • Renewcell New Textile Fiber Prep
    • Sustainable Apparel Coalition
    • Innovative Recycling Product by Ecoalf
    • How Sustainability is Improving Fashon
    • What Is Fast Fashion?
    • Sustainability Rating System Exposed
    • Apparel Company Pivots
    • Death of Fast Fashion
    • STTI Gains Two New Members
    • Eight Start-Ups
    • Game-Changing Legislations
    • Higg Partners with AII
    • Archroma and Jeanologia
    • NextGenerationEU Package
    • Sustainable Cotton
    • Patagonia: A Pioneer in Sustainable
    • Path to a Sustainable Textile Industry
    • Elevate Textiles Leads Industry
    • Large-Scale Study from H&M, IKEA
    • Hilfiger Adopts Higg’s
  • World of Fashion
    • South African Designer Sindiso Khumalo
    • South African Designer Sindiso Khumalo
    • Five Ways Technology is Aiding Fashion
    • Virtual Fitting Rooms
    • CORDURA - MYSTERY RANCH Collaboration
    • CORDURA and MYSTERY RANCH
    • Epson and Designer Yuima Nakazato Show
    • Outlook into Fashion Future
    • The Birkin Bag Case
    • McKinsey Outlook Pessimistic
    • Sales Price Hikes
    • LVMH Names Pietro Beccari
    • New Study Explores AI
    • Christie's Auctions Talley Collection
  • Glimpse into Glamorous
    • "Gucci Twinsburg" on the Milan Catwalk.
    • What to Wear on Mars?
    • Japanese Designer Hanae Mori Passes
    • Japanese Designer Issey Miyake Passes
    • Matching Elegance with Sophistication
    • Sequins Are A Girl's Best Friend
    • CFDA Fashion Awards
    • Virgil Abloh Passes
  • Industry Events
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    • FEDTEX 2023
    • Training Takes Time
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    • Join IAF World Fashion Convention
    • Interior Trends 2003
    • Snippets Around Texprocess
    • 37th IAF
    • Furniture Manufacturing Expo
    • Advancements in Manufacturing Tech
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    • Texprocess / Techtextil (Frankfurt) 2
    • Texprocess Americas 2022
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    • American & Efird
    • Atlanta Attachment Company
    • Brother International Corporation
    • DAP America
    • Eastman Machine Company
    • Juki America
    • Techtextil and Texprocess 2022
    • Kuris USA
    • MACPI Spa Pressing Division
    • Mitsubishi Electric Automation
    • RSG Automation
    • Sewn Products Equipment Co.
    • The Fox Company
    • Tukatech
    • YIN USA
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    • Heimtextil Summer Special
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    • InterModa
    • 3D Tech Festival 2021
    • 36th IAF Convention
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    • IAF Handover
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    • Style3D Announces Acquisition of Assyst 2
    • Heimtextil 2022 Cancelled
    • Brother International Corporation 2
    • Digital Fashion Week NY
    • IFAI Expo
  • Associations
    • EURATEX Launches Horion Europe Project
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  • Fire-Dex Takes Over Former Kitsbow Facility, Plans to Rehire Laid-Off Workers
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  • VF Corporation Names Bracken Darrell President and CEO
  • Nike's New Aerogami Technology Is Designed to Keep You Cooler
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  • Sanem Dikmen and Ramazan Kayan, Co-Chairs of the Turkish Garment Manufacturing Association, Share an Open Letter to the International Apparel Community
  • OECD in Paris: European Corporate Due Diligence Must Create A Level Playing Field Through Effective Enforcement
  • Nazma Akter’s Opening Key Note at the OECD Due Diligence Forum Paris
  • Methods Workshop Under New Management
  • APTMA Rejects Claims of the Decline of Pakistan’s Textile Industry
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  • APTMA, BGMEA to Enhance Cooperation in Garment Manufacturing
  • Zünd Establishes a New Subsidiary in Spain
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  • New York Governor Pledges 10 Million Dollars to Fund Fashion Innovation Centre
  • Merrow Superior Acquires Goldberg Supply Company
  • Firms Across OECD Nations Face Unprecedented Labor Shortages
  • Clothing Textile Flammability Standard to be Amended
  • EU Moves to Ban Forced Labor Products
  • Bangladesh Eyes 100 Billion USD Export Earnings by 2026
  • U.S.-Honduras Education Partnership
  • Juki-Mitsuishi-Meiryo Joint Venture
  • Cut-and-Sew Manufacturing Returns to NC
  • Due Diligence for Supply Chains
  • Sae-A Factory in Costa Rica
  • DuPont Joins Forces With Heriot-Watt
  • Datacolor Announces Partnerships
  • Reshoring Latin America
  • Lectra Recognized by Deloitte
  • LYCRA Company Browzwear Partnership
  • Frankfurt Tradeshow Trio Techtextil, Texprocess, Heimtextil: Innovation Hub and Reloading Platform
  • 2022 Innovation Awards by Messe Frankfurt — Impulse Provider for Numerous Branches
  • The LYCRA Company Announces New Equity Ownership
  • Meta Announces Digital Designer Clothing Store for Avatars in the Metaverse
  • US Textile and Apparel Exports Up 12.83% YoY in January-April 2022
  • How to Hone Honduras’s Potential
  • Australian T-Shirt Producer Looking to Expand
  • Okabashi Brands Growing
  • Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Takes Next Step in Launching Spydasil Apparel Brand
  • Aptean Apparel Manufacturing Solution Receives Software Innovation Award
  • Sri Lanka Defaults on Debt, IMF Bailout Likely
  • Small Brands Are The Future of U.S. Apparel Manufacturing
  • Zund America Announces Manuel Merkt as President
  • Lectra’s Chess Move In the Turkish Market: Closing Ranks With Glengo Teknologji, Istanbul
  • Eastman Machine Co. and ACG Nyström Strengthen Exclusive Strategic Partnership
  • Elevate Textiles Releases 2022 Sustainability Report
  • Lectra Equips Bespoke Manufacturing Co. (USA) with its Gerber AccuMark Range of Solutions and Gerber Z1 Cutting Machine
  • NextGenerationEU Package — Program Towards Reform of International Corporate Taxation Framework
  • Valentino Garavani Turns 90
  • BELLA+CANVAS Plans High-Tech Fabric-Cutting Facility in Alabama
  • Intradeco Holdings Invests More Than $100 Million In Central America To Expand Nearshoring, Advance Full Circularity, And Increase Solar Energy Power
  • USAID Provides 130 Sewing Machines to Apparel Factory in Chui Region to Create More Jobs
  • Eastman Appointed Airborne Preferred Reselling Partner
  • Award-Winning Software Tools for Automated Cutting
  • Buy Local
  • i-SMART Globally Launched
  • Annual Sewn Products Reshoring Award Announced
  • Latin American Apparel Exports Seen Growing 10 Percent
  • Increasing Exports, Securing Supply Chains Part of Latin America Policy
  • Coloreel, Hirsch Solutions Expands Partnership To Meet Increased Demand On The U.S. Market
  • Henderson and Optio in Partnership for Shop Floor Control Software
  • New Community College Partnerships Provide Opportunity for Students, Industry
  • Q1 2022 Barometer: Review of Global Sourcing for 2021: Is There an End in Sight?
  • EU-UK Trade Figures Confirm: Brexit Has Been a “Lose-Lose” Deal for the Textile Industry
  • US Textile and Apparel Exports up 17.38% in January-November 2021
  • Vietnam Garment and Textiles Face Reality of Fierce Global Rivalry
  • Bangladesh Apparel Exports to the US Up
  • OEKO-TEX New Regulations 2022
  • Alvanon Launches Fit Studio in Milan in Collaboration with Istituto Secoli
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  • Rising Star Amiri Opens in Miami
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  • DenimFWD Opens the World’s First “Urban Factory” Bringing Textile Production Back to the USA
  • Shima Seiki USA relocates headquarters to Los Angeles
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