Fabric Mills Directory - Page 2

What This Page of the Directory Covers

The Fabric Mill Directory is organised by fabric, because that is how buyers search: a garment factory needs a fleece mill or a linen mill, not a list of companies sorted by name. Page 1 carries the directory's opening categories, and this second page continues the alphabet from E to L: Electromagnetic Shielding, Embroidered, Fiberglass, Fil-a-Fils, Filter Cloth, Flame Retardant, Fleece and French Terry open the page's own letter, followed by Gabardine, Gauze, Georgettes, Ginghams, Greige Fabric, Herringbone and Horse Hair Fabrics, then Interlining and Interlock, Jacquard and Jersey Fabric, Knit Fabric and Lace, and Lacoste, Linen Fabric, Lining and Long Fiber Reinforced Thermalplastics to close. The category listings below are this page's complete set, carried exactly as the directory has always presented them, and the page navigation to pages 1, 3, 4 and 5 is in the menu at the foot of the page.

The range on this one page shows why the directory is split by fabric rather than by company. At one end sit apparel cloths bought by the season - embroidered fabric, georgette, gingham, jersey and lace, where design, hand and color decide the order. At the other end sit technical textiles bought against test data: electromagnetic shielding cloth measured in decibels, fiberglass fabric specified by weight and weave for high-temperature work, filter cloth chosen by filtration rating, and flame retardant fabric that must pass a named standard before it can be sold for protective clothing. Between them stand the workhorse categories - fleece, gabardine, herringbone, interlock and linen - where a mill's regular production, rather than a speciality, is what a buyer is really sourcing. Each category page explains its fabric first and lists its mills second, so a reader new to the cloth can learn before enquiring.

How to Use the Directory Pages

Start from the fabric, not the company. Open the category for the cloth you need, read its explanation - the construction, the fibers it is normally made from, and the specification points that separate a good cloth from a poor one - and only then work through its listed mills, each linked to its own profile in the Fabric Mills by Name section with its directory record and contact details. If your fabric straddles two categories, check both: a buyer of loopback sweatshirt knit, for example, will find relevant mills under both French Terry on this page and Fleece beside it, because knitters commonly produce both. The directory's supporting resources are linked at the foot of this page as they were on the original: the Fabric Manufacturers page, the Fabric Consumption Optimizer, yarn factories, fabric retail and wholesalers, the fibers and textile machinery directories, and the clothing manufacturer directory for readers whose next step after cloth is a factory.

This page also carries a photograph from the original directory - folded fabric, shown in the gallery below - a reminder of what the whole structure exists for: physical cloth, made by physical mills, in categories a buyer can hold in the hand. Pages 3, 4 and 5 continue the alphabet from M to the end, and page 1 returns to the directory's opening categories and its main hub. No category has been added or removed on this page, and the 'more fabric' framing of the original - here are more fabric mill categories for your review - is exactly what the listings below remain. Thank you for using the Apparel Search Fabric Mill Directory.

Fabric Categories Listed on Directory Page 2

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