Cotton and Textile Innovation

摘要

Cotton Incorporated's Product Development Department (PD), headquartered within the company's Textile Research Center in Cary North Carolina, focuses on the design and development of fabric concepts. The ever-growing archive of constructions are meantto serve as inspiration for apparel and home markets. Throughout the year, textile designers and engineers keep the knitting machines and looms busy designing and developing new and innovative cotton fabrics. Building innovative textiles begins with theselection of the right cotton fibre for the job, depending on whether the fabric will be intended for a heavy weight denim or a tissue weight tee-shirt. Fibre length and uniformity are key factors in determining which spinning system will be employed and will impact the type of fabric structure that will ultimately be created.