daniel

daniel

With 20+ years in functional yarns and antibacterial innovation, the VI-TEX team (founded 2003) verifies authenticity through lab standards, hands-on tests, and real-world durability. Experts in ISO 20743, AATCC 100, and beyond — we help brands avoid fakes and deliver reliable performance.
Folded polar fleece fabric rolls in ivory, black, navy and rust colours

Polar Fleece Fabric: Types, Uses and Manufacturing Process

Polar fleece fabric comes from a knitted pile construction. Mills first knit the greige fabric on a circular machine and then use dyeing, raising, brushing, shearing, tumbling and heat-setting to create the familiar soft and compact surface. The fabric mainly…

Knitted linen fabric swatches and yarn cones showing dry touch, soft drape, and recovery

Knitted Linen Fabric: Pros, Cons, and 6 Common Blends

Knitted linen fabric has a clear appeal in spring and summer. It offers a dry hand, natural texture, and good air movement. It also has limits. Pure linen has little natural recovery, can crease during wear, and may feel sharp…

Hand touching light blue cooling fabric with a qmax threshold of 0.15

Cooling Fabric Explained: qmax, Yarn Design and Testing

Cooling fabric creates a real, measurable cool touch when heat moves quickly from the skin into the textile at first contact. The sensation is temporary. It does not mean that the fabric continuously refrigerates the body or keeps lowering skin…

Spandex heat-setting temperature range showing under-setting, recovery control and over-setting risk

Spandex Heat-Setting Temperature: Why 195°C Is a Control Point

Spandex heat-setting temperature cannot be approved from the stenter display alone. A recipe may show 195°C while the cloth experiences a different temperature because of sensor drift, airflow imbalance, fabric moisture, line speed or chamber loading. The roll may still…

Six cotton fabric constructions: poplin, Oxford, twill, jersey, canvas and waffle

8 Types of Cotton Fabric: Pros, Cons and Common Uses

Ask three suppliers for “cotton fabric” and you may get three very different qualities. The word cotton only tells you the fiber. It says nothing about how the yarn was spun, how the fabric was built or which finish it…

Soft TENCEL™ Modal spandex knit fabric in ivory and blush tones

TENCEL™ Modal Spandex Fabric: 200 GSM Soft Stretch Knit

TENCEL™ Modal spandex fabric is a knitted fabric for garments that need a smooth hand, fluid drape and light stretch. The development quality described here contains 91% TENCEL™ Modal and 9% spandex. Its nominal weight is 200 GSM, its usable…

Slub yarn cone and textured cream T-shirt showing the natural slub effect

Slub Yarn: Texture, Features and Fabric Applications

Slub yarn brings deliberate thick-and-thin variation into the yarn body. That uneven rhythm gives fabric a natural grain, raised texture and vintage character that a regular even yarn cannot create on its own. Fine slubs may produce quiet surface movement,…