Continuing with the concept of explaining the meaning of colours, SPINEXPO^TM will focus on an assembly of tones ranging from all shades of yellows, ochres, deep chestnuts and rich brown pigments, including glimmers of metallic, such as gold, bronze and warm copper.

Following up with our presentation of the major colours of the prism: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red, and having already introduced a presentation of Green (Green is the Colour), and Red/Pink (Red is the colour), we are now focusing on a range of yellows and all colours deriving from it.

Once again in partnership with British universities, Nottingham Trent University and Winchester School of Arts, SPINEXPO^TM will present the students’ interpretation of the meaning of the colour Yellow and its derivatives, applying their own understanding to woven, knitted and printed swatches, banners, garments, accessories and other objects.

Printing, Ikat techniques, spray painting and pigment dyes will be experimented with, as well as the use of metallic fibres and yarns from SPINEXPO exhibitors. Metallic fibres are important in this presentation as they provide strong conductivity of heat and electricity, relating closely to the new generation of products on the textile horizon. Our long-term partner exhibiting company Meadowbrook Inventions, from the USA, is supplying many metallic fibres to both universities and we will discover what both universities make of them.

The display will be complemented by specific research on the use of natural dyes. A presentation of various proposals made with yarns from a selection of our exhibitors, particularly those involved in recycling, sustainability and the use of natural dyes.  In partnership with Tarum, a Bali based eco-friendly weaving unit with natural dyeing in house, some skeins and ribbons of fibres have been dyed in the selected colours of the project and used in craftwork by Balilab, a French studio installed in Bali, Indonesia.

Many of our designers have participated in this presentation, bringing their creativity to knitted and woven banners, swatches and garments.  

Once again, SPINEXPO maintains its commitment to provide a deeper understanding to everything that surrounds textiles; different meanings of colour relating to world geography, religion, culture and everyday life.

New – Hand Knitting Corners: an artistic proposal.

As hand-knitting has gained momentum over the last few years with more artisan and independent stylists innovating this skill, SPINEXPO has introduced a new presentation that caters exactly to this trend.

These modern and fresh faced designers are elevating this side of the industry to be future focused and at the same time creative. SPINEXPO has decided to.

SPINEXPO regularly hosts 10 of the most relevant hand-knitting spinning mills and a wide variety of industrial spinners carrying hand-knitted lines.

SPINEXPO is proud to work with leading international designers whose mastery of numerous crochet techniques combined with a passion for the artisan heritage, has created bold, intricate and unusual hanging installations.

To illustrate this and showcase the hand-knitting revolution, SPINEXPO will showcase two areas to display installations and garments.

The first of these is co-created by Katie Hanlan, former knitwear designer of John Rocha in Ireland, Rebecca Peattie from the United Kingdom and Alexandre Miel from France. They will display their different concepts and ideas through hanging structures, garments, swatches as well as home decoration.  Katie Hanlan has used yarns from I-Sheen, Rebecca is working with AA Global, UPW, Shiyi, Shi-kwan, Best Shan, Fortune & Hubo.  Spinners such as Xinao, Haoye, Zhongxin, Best Shan and Xinnuo supplied raw white skeins and ribbons that have been dyed with natural dyes in Bali, developed by Alexandre Miel’s BaliLab studio.

The second area is dedicated to a large hanging structure framed by two garments designed and manufactured by the Korean stylist Aran Baik, who created in her New York studio an environment in pale blue yarns, specially dyed by the spinning mill Esquel and the hand knitting factory TianTianRun.

Innovation in Machinery co-exists and is interdependent with hand-made creativity

Far from being opposed, the integration of crafted hand-made products and textile machinery innovations brings additional potential for innovative creativity in textiles. SPINEXPO^TM has for many years partnered with the Italian circular knit machine manufacturer, SANTONI and continues to present new ideas at the main SPINEXPO? Trend Area in its “active section” designed by Dutch stylist Eva de Laat; Studio EvaXcarola.  

Speed is often blamed for a lack of human care, but is speed really responsible? Thanks to speed we can sip a full-bodied espresso in Milan and almost immediately take a bite of roasted duck in Beijing! Thanks to speed we can get first hand instant information, wherever we are in the world.  Speed itself is not a problem, but rather what we fail to pay attention to and potentially ignore when we operate at speed.

The SANTONI MecMor machine helps the knitwear designer keep most of the stitched structures that they are familiar with, but also helps the merchandiser to source a garment faster at a more cost-effective price. MecMor is a garment length Circular Knitting Machine complete with rib border separation. The new double jersey circular MecMor CMP has open variable panels, using Variatex Technology, for the production of in-weft knitted garments that combine high quality finishing and productivity due the increased number of feeders.

The variable width of the fabric panel allows setting the number of working needles for a required product that in turn enables the production of, with one single machine, all the sizes without wastage. The 33” diameter machine has gauges ranging from E7 to E20 with 12 feeders and is designed with a needle-to-needle combined knitting/transfer system. Every revolution of the cylinder the programming system can set each single feeder either as a “knit feed” or as a “transfer feed”, achieving every knitting stitch composition with maximum productivity. The yarn feeding system uses a 4-colour striper with the possibility of feeding bare Lycra when producing stretch garments. The machine features stitch structures with many colours or with various types of yarns, like jacquard (single and double jersey) with various colour possibilities: four colour stripes, plated effects, pockets, and so on.

Efficiency can be defined as the ratio of useful work performed by a machine or in a process against the total energy expended. In addition to providing us with manufacturing efficiency, this new machine provides a sustainability solution through its efficiency, a necessary focus of the garment industry.

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Date: 28 Feb/1-2 March 2017

Opening Hours: 9.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. (4.00 p.m. on 2nd March 2017)

Venue: Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Centre

Admission: Complimentary admission for trade visitors and members of the press with business card (compulsory)

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