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150 weaves for women's structured plain fabrics

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The new Italtex textile technical book Women's Structured Plains Vol. 5 has just been published!  It is the 5th of a series of trending books providing hundreds of ideas to create your new textured solid fabrics - the best-sellers of every collection. 50 pages with 150 high quality photos of textured plain fabrics and full details for their construction: weave, composition, weight, warp and weft yarns counts, ends/cm and picks/cm.

Italtex Menswear Trends Autumn Winter 2020-21

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The new Italtex Menswear Trends Autumn/Winter 20-21 are ready, and Fashion Network has just published an extract that you can see at this link: Italtex Menswear on Fashion Network Autumn/Winter 20-21 is featured by a marked trend towards a sportier look. Key is the use of fancy yarns like mouline’, slow twist mouline’, slubs, knots and some loopy yarns. A lot of knitted fabrics satisfy the need for comfortable yet formal looking garments. The trend for English style fabrics comes along with a general increase of patterns. In men’s wear, the high contrast black-white combination is interpreted in optical patterns on jersey, big, well defined checks for knit shirts, tartans for stretch trousers, herringbones reproducing tyre tracks for new sweaters.  Sports style being the key trend of the season, fancy yarns become a key element to renew traditional patterns. So we find a lot of mouliné and, for an even sportier look, slubbed mouline’, as well as melange, kemp...

Messe Frankfurt: what makes "Made in Japan" fabrics so popular in China

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“Made in Japan” is a popular selling point across many consumer goods categories in China – cosmetics, stationery and homeware to name a few – and this demand also extends to the apparel textile industry. The Japan Pavilion is now well established at both Intertextile Pavilion Shenzhen – the next edition of which takes place from 4 to 6 July – and Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics, and continues to draw large crowds at every edition of both fairs. This prompts a key question: every textile producing country has its specialties, but what can be learnt from the phenomenal success of Japanese exhibitors at Intertextile?   Upgraded consumption habits Chinese ladies wear and designer brands are keen to source unique fabrics that differentiate their products in the saturated market. Chinese brands often move towards Italian and Japanese fabrics to achieve this. At Intertextile Pavilion Shenzhen 2018, Mr Ken Kanatani, Fabric Division Manager of STYLEM Intl (HK), ...

Womenswear fabric and color trends AW 20-21

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Do you need to keep up with the latest fabric and color trends for women's and men's  wear as well as for shirting? Get them at the Italtextrends website - the complete seminar on the Fabric and Colour trends for Autumn/Winter 2020-21 presented at Intertextile Shanghai. It contains the thorough analyses of trends for womenswear, menswear, leisurewear and shirting: 59 slides with pictures of the themes, detailed written description and Pantone® reference numbers.

Italtex fabric and color trends for shirting AW 20-21

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Shirting trends from the Italtex online fabric and color shirting Autumn-Winter 20-21 include warm, soft touch double-face fabrics in checked as well as dobby and jacquard patterns. https://www.italtextrends.com/catalogue/on-line-trends-eng/shirting-colour-and-fabric-trends-aw2020-21

Men's wear trends for Autun Winter 2020-21

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Autumn/Winter 20-21 is featured by a marked trend towards a sportier look. Keys are comfort, the use of fancy yarns and a general increase of patterns. Among the colour palette for menswear we find black/white and black/grey, interpreted in optical patterns on jersey, big, well defined checks for knit shirts and tartans for stretch trousers...  from the Online Italtex Menswear Colour and Fabric Trends Autumn/Winter 20-21

Italtex seminar at Intertextile Shanghai

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Proud of presenting our color and fabric fashion trends for Autumn/Winter 2020-21at the fringe program of Intertextile Shanghai! The whole Italtex seminar on color and fabric trends for Autumn/Winter 20-21 is available at Fabric and Colour Trends AW 20-21

English Style Patterns for Autumn/Winter 20-21

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As a consequence of the raising trend for a sports look, t he English style jacket is back with its mixture colours, wide repeat glen-checks, classic hound’s tooth, small checks and some tartan style patterns. In the over 100 pages of the Italtex color and fabric trend book Menswear Autumn/Winter 2020-21 we present and extensive analyses with fabric swatches to take inspiration from

Fancy Yarn Trend Autumn Winter 20-21

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On the week of Pitti Filati everybody's attention is geared towards yarns - the key element of fabric innovation for Autumn/Winter 20-21. T hanks to yarns we can modify solid fabrics as well as patterns in a positive way, creating a contemporary trendy sports look. In our Fancy Yarns book we select the yarns for woven fabrics and the materials created with them to highlight new ways of using them, so each single swatch becomes a source of inspiration on how to combine linear and fancy yarns, what constructions to use, what patterns to draw. The book contains two main categories: - Yarns for classic plain and fake plain fabrics, micro patterns and small constructions - mouline, melange, slubs, weavy and neppy yarns -Yarns for jackets, coats and women's wear fancy fabrics - loopy yarns, different fancy effects and chainette

Preparing Knitwear Fall/Winter 2020-21

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Working hard on preparing the new Italtex color and fabric trend books Knitwear and Knitwear for Man Fall/Winter 2020-21. A snippet on the new fashion trends for knitwear in a couple of days! Drafts and just pasted pages! Soon at our agents' knitwear trend books selection

2600 weaves for Small Scale Effects

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We have collected and divided thousands of small effects to help you speed up the step of research and analyses of your next fabric collections. Now they are available in the 4 volumes of the Italtex textile technical collection Small Scale Effects. Each volume contains 640 small effects with weaves, warp and weft notes arranged according to the number of harnesses you need for their construction: 6, 8, 12, 16. This way it is very easy for you to access those you need, and you save a lot of time of analyses.

WOMENSWEAR FABRICS and COLOURS spring-summer 2020

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WOMENSWEAR spring summer 2020

#Shirting #fabrics trends - #Spring Summer 2020

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JACQUARDS S/S2020

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  # Jacquard   from the   # italtex   trends book   # fabrics   and   # color   for   # spring # summer2020   italtextrends.com/…/womenswear-fabric-trend-bo…/jacquards-en JACQUARDS S/S 2020

Textile technical book - PLAINS

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A source of #inspiration for #structures , #yarns , #finishes . From #italtex technical books. # PLAINS 22 volumes - each contains 220 #swatches .

MENSWEAR FABRICS TRENDS A/W 19-20

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WOMENSWEAR TRENDS SS2020 - check celebration

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Womenswear  trends SS2020

KNITWEAR for MEN - Structured black & white

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New inputs of our Italtex fabric trend book NEOTECH Spring/Summer 2020

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Strong clean and simple SS2019

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