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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Curls and Stretches. Unlike regular knits, which are produced by inter-looping a single yarn, double knit fabric is made by interlocking the loops from two strands of yarn with a double stitch-one in back, one in front. This makes a strong, supple cloth that is suitable for dresses, suits, jackets and even rainwear. Double knits, which had been made in West Germany and Italy for decades, did not come into their own until English textile makers in the early 1960s found that they could produce the fabric with polyester. This was made possible by a process called texturizing...
...double knits has been eight-year-old Texfi Industries Inc., headquartered in Greensboro, N.C. Texfi President Joseph Hamilton, 51, who left his job at Burlington Indus tries to help found the firm, was quick to see the need for a single producer who could knit, dye and finish the fabric. He borrowed money, issued a public stock offering to get more and went into production. Texfi is now the biggest producer of double knits, with estimated sales this year of $160 million, a 66% increase over last year...
...front runners gained an early lead partly because most major weavers, like Collins & Aikman and J.P. Stevens, miscalculated double knit's staying power and were late getting into the race. Burlington Industries, the nation's biggest textile firm, began making double knit fabric only 18 months...
...profit and with hearing the confessions of his regulars, but he ends his speech with a quiet despair disguised as complacency: "I'll die in the night and I hope it don't wake me up, that I just slip away, quietly." Something is drastically wrong with the whole fabric of society; the bar's one contact with the outside world all evening comes when the doctor goes to deliver a dead baby in a trailer cord. He allows the mother to hemorrhage to death...
...high plain next to the ruins of Persepolis was a city that even Scheherazade could never have imagined: a 160-acre oasis studded with three huge royal "tents" and 59 lesser ones arranged in a star pattern. The tents were more or less permanent structures of synthetic fabric, with cement bases and wooden partitions; they were built to withstand fire, rot, and winds of up to 70 m.p.h. Decorated by Jansen of Paris, the firm that helped Jacqueline Kennedy redo the White House, the tents were completely air-conditioned and furnished with Baccarat crystal, Ceralene Limoges china and Porthault linens...