Jacquard Fabrics on Demand

Technological developments are key to the future success of the textile industry. The future requires entirely new manufacturing processes. There has been a remarkable change in the entire fabric manufacturing process with the implementation of computer programming and processing. Latest textile CAD/CAM systems and other technological developments have given a substantial boost to the manufacture of fabrics, in particular reference with jacquard fabrics. These systems have been structured to cover dobby weaving, jacquard weaving and all other textile processes to help the designers to create and view the designs prior to weaving. This has resulted in an increase in competition among manufacturers and hence provided quick market response. The use of latest CAD systems has opened a variety of new possibilities to designers and fabric developers, such as higher creativity, fast incorporation of novelties and improvements into work quality. It has also provided them a flexibility to adapt to the constantly changing fashion trends and market demands, with sensible use of time and materials. 7 NTC Project: F03-NS03s National Textile Center Annual Report: November 2003 The major fields of production of jacquard are for upholstery, furnishing, mattresses, airbags, table cloth, sheeting, drapery, tapestry, pictorial images and apparel. With increasing demand of the products, the jacquard head capacity is getting higher every year allowing every warp yarn to be controlled independently. The proposed research would help in understanding the market conditions which has lead the jacquard textile industry to change the way of thinking and introduce new technologies to increase its marketing strategies. This would help jacquard fabric producers to respond to the customer demand and will enable companies of the future to produce high-class products in response to market demand, economically and effectively.