Australian apparel brand Toorallie is proudly boasting a 30 per cent increase in wholesale sales for winter 2013. And the good news for Australian woolgrowers is that Australian Merino wool is the core fibre in all the company’s ...
To counter the severe competition and soaring cost of producing carpets, Nepali carpet manufacturers and exporters are now focusing on manufacturing of high-end carpets that face relatively less competition. Due to incursion of ...
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The Loro Piana Challenge Cup yesterday celebrated in Hong Kong the finest Merino wool bale produced in 2012, in a competition between Australia and New Zealand. After 14 Australian wins, affirming the leadership of the Australian wool ...
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As the Woolmark brand rapidly approaches its 50th year, a survey conducted by USA graphic design journal GDUSA has voted the Woolmark logo as the 11th favourite logo from the past half century. Created in 1964 by Italian designer ...
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Cubbie station, the largest privately owned irrigation property in Australia, is expecting to harvest 200,000 bales of ginned cotton this year. The new owners of the 93,000 hectares of cultivation land - Lempriere, Chinese textile and ...
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Starting Out Right From the time we start preparing a room for a new baby, we are making choices about the child's environment. Many people get ready for a new child by painting, papering, and carpeting a baby's room with conventional ...
The Merino Company (TMC) has acquired renowned spinning facility NUYARN, strengthening its fabric and garment offerings to the outdoor, fashion, performance socks and seamless markets. Since its beginnings some 14 years ago in ...
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The Woolmark Company Hong Kong office has joined forces with Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) in a bid to get artists working with wool, drawing the fibre into the world of art, via Haptic InterFace. Haptic InterFace 2012 lauched a new ...
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Thanks to the rising preference of people for green products, both in the local as well as international markets, the abaca industry of Philippines is expecting an eight percent rise in exports this year, after experiencing a decline last ...
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The International Woolmark Prize crosses borders and cultures by seeking outstanding and emerging talent from around the world, aligning the support of emerging designers with the evolution of emerging countries. It is an award for the ...
The 3rd edition of Coir Kerala Exhibition is being hosted by Department of Coir, Government of Kerala following the phenomenal success of Coir Kerala 2011& 2012. Coir Kerala 2013 is being scheduled during 1st -5th February, 2013 at EMS ...
The third edition of the annual international event Coir Kerala 2013, world’s largest expo on coir and natural fibre products, is going to take place in India’s southernmost coir hub of Allapuzha, Kerala, from February 1-5, ...
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The Campaign for Wool, of which His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales is patron, began its third year with a spectacular knit-over of Harvey Nichols' iconic Knightsbridge store – with more than 100 metres of wool. The wool was ...
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The Oerlikon Group has signed an agreement with the Jinsheng Group of China to divest the Natural Fibers and Textile Components Business Units from its Textile Segment.The divestment is an important strategic step to optimize and balance ...
Australian woolgrowers have voted to maintain the two per cent levy on wool sales to fund research, development and marketing of the natural fibre. In total, 60.94% of all possible woolgrower votes were cast as part of WoolPoll 2012, the ...
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