{"id":34,"date":"2007-04-05T05:54:24","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T05:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denimiscool.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/05\/stretch-denim-manufacturing-may-change-with-new-dow-fibre\/"},"modified":"2009-02-11T05:47:23","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T12:47:23","slug":"stretch-denim-manufacturing-may-change-with-new-dow-fibre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/denim-fabric-developments\/stretch-denim-manufacturing-may-change-with-new-dow-fibre\/34","title":{"rendered":"Stretch Denim Manufacturing may change with new Dow fibre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new high-performance elastic fibre for use in denim fabrics and garments has been introduced by Dow Fiber Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>This new fibre for denim &#8211;<strong> XLA <\/strong>&#8211; is said to be inherently resistant to high heat and harsh chemicals. As a result the Jeanswear manufacturers can become more adventurous in their use of various treatments and chemicals on the stretch denim. Till now, the stretch fibres from Dupont and others , have had a drawback that the <strong>Stretch Jeans could not be given the same treatments as the 100% Cotton jeans due to the fear of damanging<\/strong> the jeans. Now, if what Dow claims is correct, then  the 100% Cotton Jeans and Stretch Jeans can be given similar treatments giving a great handle to the designers to improve upon their collections.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to see the Jeans made with this fibre &#8211; which is Stonewashed,Scraped,Given Resin treatment at startegic places and is hand grinded at specific points(like pocket) and destructed at others &#8212; JUST TO SEE IF THE JEANS SURVIVES and HOW IT LOOKS AFTER THESE TREATMENTS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new high-performance elastic fibre for use in denim fabrics and garments has been introduced by Dow Fiber Solutions. This new fibre for denim &#8211; XLA &#8211; is said to be inherently resistant to high heat and harsh chemicals. As a result the Jeanswear manufacturers can become more adventurous in their use of various treatments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[331],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-denim-fabric-developments","tag-stretch-denim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}