Pacific Coast Knitting: High-End Knitting in LA’s Huntington Park
Textiles
Pacific Coast Knitting’s showroom has racks of sweater knits, double-faced fabrics, sheer knits and styles with multi-color slubs, as well as basic fabrics.
Demand-Based Manufacturing Readies for Commercial Roll-Out
Technology
A California-based company that is pairing the disruptive technologies of purchase activated and demand manufacturing with a waterless dyeing and printing process expects to soon sign the first contracts for commercialization.
Knitting a Supply Chain that Stretches from the U.S. to the Caribbean
SF Knits
Knitting a Supply Chain that Stretches from the U.S. to the Caribbean
After 30 Years, Asher Fabric Concepts Continues to Drive Innovation
Textiles
When Asher Shalom visited some family members in Los Angeles in 1988, he surveyed the metropolis’s fashion scene and saw an industry that had excelled at milling fleece and denim, but he thought that the city’s business had been coming up short in milling novelty fabrics. Shalom had fallen in love with Los Angeles after visiting from his native Israel and wanted to move to the City of the Angels. He believed he had something to add to the city’s fashion business through his background in fabric engineering. He started the novelty mill Asher Fabric Concepts in 1991.
Industry Focus: Denim—What advancements and innovations within denim make you hopeful for the future of the industry, and how will these contributions create progress in the category?
Industry Focus: Denim
Textile Trends
Industry Focus: Denim - Denim Experts Weigh In on Design, Responsible Manufacturing, Vintage
Industry Focus: Denim
As fashion embraces vintage-jean styles and the resale segment booms, are there any elements of classic denim making that you still love and can align with the modern need for responsible manufacturing?
Fashion Snoops: Denim’s Craft Revival
Fashion
For decades, crafted denim was a topic for a niche audience of denim connoisseurs—inside knowledge that felt foreign to the average consumer. Today, an increasing awareness of sustainability and rising consumer interest in heritage and tradition are influencing a denim renaissance that honors the process of creation, putting the focus on the journey of design itself as much as the end result.
Fiber, Yarn and Fabric: Identifying Underrated Textile Resources
Industry Focus
California Apparel News asked experts in fiber, yarn and fabric: What region of the world should be afforded more attention for its contributions to fiber, yarn or fabric, and why do you feel the experts and artists in this particular area deserve a brighter spotlight?
The Textile Show Makes Its Nashville Debut
Trade Shows
The Textile Show Nashville wrapped up its inaugural event, where it showcased a curated selection of exhibitors.
