Sweater or dress? The new fall must have. It can be paired with jeans or with knee high boots and a waistline belt for the hottest fall look. I have seen them in almost every store and it can double as two outfits. Who wouldn’t love that perk? How do you wear your sweater????
Sweater or dress? The new fall must have. It can be paired with jeans or with knee high boots and a waistline belt for the hottest fall look. I have seen them in almost every store and it can double as two outfits. Who wouldn’t love that perk? How do you wear your sweater????
The above are pictures of the making of the foundation of the chair, the skeleton, before it is upholstered at Pearson. Walking through that part of the factory, was very neat, it was interesting to see the foundations of an every day chair you may sit upon without knowing how much work really went into making it.
Another note on Wesley Mancini which I had talked about in the previous blog, here are some Words of Wisdom Download file on Textile design portfolios, or portfolios in general. He makes a lot of very important points, I would give it a good read, this is from his experience from looking at other students previous portfolios. This isn’t your professors notes but from someone in the actual industry!!
Lastly, ITMA sponsors a design competition every year, check out the link to see if you are interested in participating. Virginia Jackson Design Competition If you would like to participate, please contact Elaine Polvinen at 878-5803 or by email at polvinem@buffalostate.edu.
Home interior textile enthusiasts, where are you? I had just attended “Fabric: From Concept to Consumer” which was a three day excursion to High Point, North Carolina and sponsored by ITMA (International Textile Market Association). This organization’s education committee sponsors this trip once a year for a selected 30 or so students and faculty from universities and colleges from across the USA. Where the h%$# is High Point, North Carolina? It is practically in the middle of no where and the trip’s organizers kept saying it is the furniture capital of the world. I was like, “Here? Seriously?” I don’t know if that is a fact but when we were driving through High Point, there were tons of furniture and home interior design textile showrooms/store fronts and factories as far as the eye can see. It also is home to the World’s Largest Chest of Drawers. Anyway, getting back to what the trip was all about…. High Point, North Carolina is really a gem in the USA in a sense of being one of the last places where from actual weaving and production of home interior textiles to the production of furniture is all done here. If you’re not in the 411, all that work has gone over seas mainly to China because of competitively low wages and production costs. With in the past years, some textile mills were forced to shut down or merge with existing ones because of this. We were given tours of some textile mills/ furniture factories and fabric showrooms. The following is a picture of a fabric being woven on an air-jet loom that was taken at Valdese Weavers. ![North_Car[1]._011.jpg](http://blog.buffalostate.edu/fashion/appareldesign/archives/North_Car%5B1%5D._011.jpg)
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