The use of ammonia in mercerization has been known since the 1930’s and was developed commercially for fabric processing around 1970 in what was originally known as the Tedesco process, which was subsequently acquired by the Sanforized company and made well-known as the Sanfor-Set®process. The fashion appeal of so-called “flat-finish” denim resulting from Japanese ammonia-finished denim that many companies substituted caustic-mercerized fabrics, often presenting them as ...Read More

This is a guest post by Harry Mercer. This is a very technical description – read on if you are technically oriented.. Here are given some important dyeing processes related to indigo dyeing – specially on Rope Dyeing . Pre Treatment Pre-treatment is conducted in the 1st tank. The most common pre-treatments are : 1.  Sulfur bottoming 2.  Scouring with sodium hydroxide 3.  Causticizing or Mercerizing Pre- Treatment : Sulphur Bottoming •The purpose of sulfur bottoming was ...Read More

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AneCalc is a tool developed by American & Efird to assist in estimating the thread consumption and cost per thread cost per jeans / garment alongwith the number of cones one needs for a given programme. The tools are the in the form of a an excel spreadsheet and one has to just enter basic information to get the consumption and costs. There are basically three AneCalc spreadsheets. Lightweight : 2- 4 oz weight fabrics. Medium weight : 5-8 oz fabrics. Heavy Weight : 9 –15 oz ...Read More

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Wishing all our readers and visitors a Very Happy New Year 2011.. May this year be full of happiness, success and prosperity for you and your family..   ...Read More

For those who think that Christmas has nothing to do with denim, need to take a look at the photographs of different Christmas products in denim .Click on the photographs to see more details. Hope you like . Wish you A Merry Christmas And A Very Happy New Year   ...Read More

This is a very detailed technical guest article about Resin treatments from Saurabh Rai Today we will talk about Resin & its use in Denim garments industry to create unique & vintage looks which add value to denim garments & improves its saleability  in market. In 80’s we have seen Resin being used to give non press , iron free trousers & now we are using in Denims to make wrinkles & creases to look natural vintage which stays after multiple home laundries. The ...Read More

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The name “Loopdye” results from the method of skying or air passage for oxidizing the Indigo-dyed yarn and the method of passing through the Indigo dye. On the other 2 important Indigo machine types, the dyed yarn is passed through from 6-8 Indigo boxes on rope machines or 6-20 Indigo boxes on slasher (sheet) Indigo machines, multiple dye boxes being necessary for dark shades because only a small amount of Indigo can be applied in each immersion. After immersion in each Indigo dye box, ...Read More

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As we had previously mentioned, we have come out with a jobs section the site . This section enables readers to find the COOLEST denim jobs around the world at one place.  These include jobs from US and other places in the world. There are separate search options for jobs in Italy, India, UK , Canada, Australia etc. Our jobs section is constantly updated so that the freshest of jobs are visible .  Besides  , we now have a job listing feature where companies can list their ...Read More

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This is a guest post by Harry Mercer. This is a part of the  presentation that he made in the denim seminar held recently at Mexico  . It gives various tips about getting better quality denim fabrics by taking care of parameters at finishing stage. Why Is Finishing Quality Critical? Denim finishing is critical to profits in that customers who pay the highest prices are very demanding with regard to shrinkage differences between and within fabric rolls. These customers will accept ...Read More

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We are pleased to announce that Denimsandjeans.com has reached the first milestone of 1000 subscribers . On this occasion , WE WANT TO THANK ALL OUR SUBSCRIBERS FOR BEARING WITH US . I think it would be in place to give some details about our subscribers  . Most of them are professionals from : Denim Brands in US and Europe including large retailers . Denim Mills in US, South Amercia,  Turkey, India , Pakistan , Hong Kong etc. Denim garment exporting companies from ...Read More

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