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Founded by Sandeep Agarwal – who has been associated with denim since 1993- the website brings out the best in denim world – trends, analysis, reports on almost a daily basis for the service of the denim industry worldwide. The reports provided by Denimsandjeans.com over the last few years have been found quite useful by the industry players – designers, sourcing guys, mills, buyers etc.
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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…
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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…
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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 ,…
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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…
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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 :…
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An important seminar on denim manufacturing is scheduled to take place in Puebla -Mexico on September 23rd and 24th 2010. The Mexican Textile Institute will be sponsoring the seminar titled "Improved Denim Manufacturing in Dyeing and Finishing" . Topics include: Denim Finishing Techniques for Highest Quality and Profits; Chemistry and Application of Sulfur Dyes in…
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Levi’s and H & M have announced that they will no longer place orders for sandblasted garments (included jeans) due to the health hazard they pose. Sandblasting has been used by the clothing industry to give some products (specially denim jeans ) a worn look but the process, if done incorrectly, it can expose workers…
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Invista sponsored the recently held Kingins show and will be sponsoring the upcoming next few shows in LA , Hong Kong and Shanghai . They also displayed some of their cool denim products at the NY show . Lycra name being synonymous with stretch , most of the products were stretch related though some of…
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There are various material and process inputs that go into the making of a denim jeans – fabric , cutting and sewing , washing , adding embellishments etc . Each of these adds up a good amount of money to bring out the production cost of the jeans. Then there is packing , transportation ,…
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American and Efird brings out an interesting comparison between Corespun and Spun Threads to help understand the difference between the two better and the reason why corespun gives better results in denim sewing . What are Corespun Threads ? Corespun threads, sometimes referred “pcore” or “polycore” or “cottoncore”, are made by wrapping a staple polyester…
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CSV is a serious problem that occurs on the great majority of Indigo dyeing equipment in which yarns dyed on one side of the machine are a different shade from the yarns on the opposite side. This problem is so common that it is generally accepted as unavoidable, especially in sheet ranges. Basically, the…
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Morrison Textile Machinery is a global leader in textile processing machinery. They are particularly famous for its Rope Dyeing Machines for denim fabrics and have installed over 200 machines worldwide. They have shared with us some information on the ‘Duties and Responsbilities of the Indigo Dye operators’ and this info would be useful for…