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Trade notes for textile buyers

Pricing, quality, and logistics, written for the decisions you make before an order. Published by the Fibrecator team.

A power loom in a textile mill, its warp threads running into the reed — A power loom at Masson Mills. The machine sets the pace a buyer’s lead time has to live with.

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Textile workers standing among machinery in a mill, photographed in the 1940s — Mill workers, from a public-domain postcard. The floor a buyer’s order is actually made on.

Indigo-dyed cotton twill, close enough to read the weave — Cotton twill under raking light. Weight and weave decide how a cloth falls.

Textile stalls and bolts of cloth in Jaipur’s Johari Bazar — Cloth on the stall in Jaipur. Most buying still starts with a hand on the fabric.

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Photographs: “Textile workers in mill” (public domain); “Blue cotton fabric” by Pink Sherbet Photography (CC BY 2.0); “Masson Mills power loom” by Clem Rutter (CC BY-SA 3.0); “Jaipur textile market” by Mohammad Shoeb Ansari (CC0). All via Wikimedia Commons or the WordPress Photo Directory.