Margaret MacLeod, Harris Tweed Hebrides market development director, said there was potential demand for the fabric in North America.
Perhaps the most eloquent fabric in the show is the one Fortuny made in memory of his late father.
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"It can be anything from a luxe leather tote to a cute fabric in bright colors or leopard prints, " she says.
She says the cloth is being used to make hats, muffs for keeping hands warm and as fabric in making head phones.
Apparently he used over 600 yards of fabric in making the costumes.
The duo made cold calls all day, spread fabric in the basement, delivered packages to FedEx, then spread more fabric until 2 a.m.
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On Sunday afternoon, the operation was halted when a fire broke out as sparks from a metal-cutter ignited scraps of fabric in the rubble.
Eric Tan, executive director of Enterprising Fabric in Hong Kong, says U.S. buyers are urging his company to move production away from China -- to Southeast Asia.
In summer, when the temperature soars to 45 degrees centigrade, soaking lengths of cotton fabric in a boiling vat of dye calls for a special kind of endurance.
The dummy will then be used as a template to locate pieces of fabric in the appropriate position while robotic sewing arms buzz around stitching the pieces together, much like the spot-welding machines found in car factories.
Ojiya-chijimi, Echigo-jofu: techniques of making ramie fabric in Uonuma region, Niigata Prefecture developed in the north-western part of Japan s main island and bear the mark of the region s cooler climate particularly its snowy winters.
Brooks Brothers decided to introduce a dressier button-down collar with a higher thread count and made with Italian-woven fabric in its Luxury shirt because sales staff had been getting requests from customers for such a shirt, he says.
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"We were motivated by a desire to design a system for anyone to both build with fabric in a way similar to playing with Lego and create objects that are rich with relevant context-aware computation without having to program, " said Nanda, who devised the patches for a project towards a Media Arts and Sciences masters degree.
Throughout the house, Ms. Emerson brought in brightly colored, interesting rugs, chandeliers and furniture, like a bookshelf with different colored framed boxes and a granny chair upholstered in fabric painted in a pop art style.
Lim began with an overcoat in that fabric, in a fresh grapefruit color.
The speakers are available in matt aluminium, with fabric covers in either white or black.
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Lululemon (NASDAQ: LULU) stock recently fell over 5%, dropping to a 7-month low, in the wake of a literal fabric shortage in its black yoga and crop pants.
"The greater capacity and complete control we now have in our dyeing and finishing operation will bring substantial benefits as we continue to seek to expand our fabric business in target markets such as North America, " he said.
The final layer is often panels of loose-weave or sheer fabric hanging in soft drapes to the floor.
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Robert Kime has always made the most lovely, loose gathered-fabric shades in everything from his own textiles to vintage turbans.
In one, each girl reclines on a thin, slanted bench with all four limbs stretched up, keeping four fabric swaths in orbit.
Conceived as a capsule for the imaginary voyage of moviegoing, the theater has a wraparound ceiling and walls made of 1, 136 fabric panels in a sensuous, vibrant Yves Klein blue, altering the viewer's depth perception and encouraging a sensation of being suspended in the space.
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Serengetee invests in fabric-makers abroad by purchasing their patterns, but the company gives back in a more direct manner as well.
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Officials from the mercers' company, whose members originally dealt in luxury fabric, were summoned before the Privy Council in 1561 to explain "to explain why the price of silk was so high", according to historian Ian Doolittle.
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London 2012 chairman Lord Coe has defended the role of chemical company Dow in providing a fabric wrap around the Olympic Stadium in east London.
All the technological complexities are hidden in the design and the fabric can only be connected in one way.
Isis was initially stuck placing orders that exceeded demand, since the fabric was sold in bulk lots.
The project - dubbed Karma Chameleon - involves weaving electronic fabric into clothes in a way that allows the storage of energy from the body.
These services are part of the fabric of life in America, supported by property taxes on our homes, sales taxes on goods and fees on services.
The mooted device is likened to a "slap wrap" - a thin strip of metal covered in fabric which snapped around the user's wrist to form a bracelet.
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