The aim of the short paper is to present the first stages of a unique project to develop historically accurate human characters and period clothing using art, design and architecture techniques and experience. We are designing and modelling 19th Century buildings and 3D virtual characters according to the original photographs, drawings, paintings, cloth samples, leather and other materials. The...

The exploitation of ‘‘intelligent’’ factory set-ups could enhance the competitiveness of the EU textile and clothing industries, by enabling collaborative design-and-manufacture options, while achieving economies of scope with effective exploitation of (strategic/tactical/execution) flexibility. Simulation turns to be reference aid for developing and acknowledging the appropriate set-ups and th...

Fabric defect inspection is necessary and essential for quality control in the textile industry. Traditionally, fabric inspection to assure textile quality is done by humans, however, in the past years, researchers have paid attention to PC-based automatic inspection systems to improve the detection efficiency. This paper proposes a novel automatic inspection scheme for the warp knitting machin...

The authors evaluated associations between occupational exposures in the textile industry and the risks of esophageal cancer and stomach cancer. The authors conducted a case-cohort study nested in a cohort of female textile workers in Shanghai, China. One hundred and two workers with incident esophageal cancer and 646 workers with incident stomach cancer diagnosed between 1989 and 1998 were com...

In support of an epidemiological study of cancer incidence among cotton textile workers in Shanghai, PRC, historical estimates of exposure to cotton dust and endotoxin were developed for subjects drawn from a cohort of 267,400 female textile workers. A large dataset of historical cotton dust measurements were available from 56 of the study factories. Using these data, a series of models were de...

The textile industry in the territory of Belgrade today, but also Serbia, which was an integral part Kingdom SHS/Yugoslavia, experienced a growth during interwar period and became one busiest industrial branches. In this paper, for fi rst time, factory with small capacity will be present-ed, between 1935-1946. worked Čukarica, suburb Belgrade. paper written on basis original archival materials ...