Verve and confidence exuded from Filo #45 both in terms of new products offered to the buyers and designers on the often crowded stands in the Centro Stelline in Milan March 2-3.
IWTO President, R. Peter Ackroyd Takes a Look at the Recent Round of Fabric Trade Fairs in Milan and Paris.
Wool continued to be present in the spring/summer collections on show for 2017 spring summer, in 100 per cent qualities as well as in blends with other summer fibres.
Premiere Vision sparkled with life as a bright and cheerful ambience set the scene for SS 2017 and it confirmed the summer role for wool.
Animal welfare is at the heart of every wool grower’s farm. Around the world, wool farmers apply the best available animal husbandry practices to ensure the health of their flocks.
More than 80,000 trade visitors from 120 countries attended ISPO MUNICH, the world’s largest sports business exhibition, held 24-27 January 2016.
The trade fair season got underway last week with Heimtextil, the largest international trade fair for interiors textiles.
At Pitti Uomo complete designed looks heavily featured wool in technical developments and weather sensitive fashion as well as tweeds and fine worsted blue suits-the front runners.
Traditionally only a smattering of wool made its way into summer collections. But since the seasons have begun to morph into each other that has changed, with the qualities of summer or winter yarns improved and made more suitable by the addition of other yarns and processes.
Returning to Turkey for the first time in more than a decade IWTO brought together 75 representatives of the global wool textile industry for its annual Wool Round Table in Istanbul on 23-24 November 2015.
Wool made its presence known at this year’s Harrogate Carpet Show, the most important trade show for the UK carpet industry, reports Malcolm Sims CTexT FTI, international textile consultant.
IWTO is the recognised global authority for manufacturing standards in the wool textile industry and the wool industry is fully aware that it is working in an area where sustainable practices need to be transparent at all stages in the pipeline.