Textile Ennobling: creativity that adds more value to fabrics

“Textile ennobling”: what does this expression, suspended between technical and esoteric language, actually mean? Well, it expresses a very simple concept. In fact, every fabric starts out raw, without any particular features, for example: a cotton canvas is white; raw-denim is denim-blue, and so on.

“Ennobling” a fabric therefore means implementing all the processes, and creative and artistic actions that transform it and make it unique and distinctive, taking it through different processes that are the fruit of designer’s creative minds, and transforming the raw fabric into a high-quality finished product, thus increasing its value (and consequently its price).

These ennobling processes are strategic, in particular, for the fashion and interior decorating sectors, because they allow creating garments and upholstery that is, yes, beautiful, but also, robust, functional, and comfortable.

Washing and Finishing

These are the two fundamental processes in any textile ennobling process. Washing, performed with water or other additives, cleans the fabric of impurities and any eventual processing residues.

Washing can soften a fabric or, for example, giving it a more worn look, depending on the manner chosen. Let’s say that it’s the first step in constructing a fabric or a garment.
As the word itself implies, finishing is the last treatment, and the one that is a prelude to putting the fabric to use.
This is inevitably a creative phase as it is here that the designers’ ideas begin to take shape.

Ironing, calendering, mercerizing (which increases shine and resistance) are some of the “on bolt” finishing steps. Garment finishing, of course, involves a whole other set of interventions on the garment itself. In the field of denim, for example, this is a phase in which art and creativity, combined with the most innovative technologies, can create truly amazing effects.

Dyeing and Printing

The dyeing stage is obviously central to the ennobling process because it gives the fabric its final color, uniform or gradated, depending on the desired result. Printing allows applying custom motifs and designs to the fabric. Both of these processes can be performed with different technologies: from the most traditional types to the most innovative and digital ones. It all depends on the objectives.

Functional treatments

In textile finishing processes we can also include all those functional treatments that enrich the fabric (or garment) with real superpowers, such as, for example, waterproofing, antistaticity, UV resistance, stain protection, etc.

In the fashion world, textile ennobling / finishing is definitely crucial because it makes it possible to produce garments that are beautiful, attractive to the user, functional and, last but not least, innovative and above all, sustainable. Indeed, it is precisely the sustainability and the wholesomeness of a garment that are now among the most important indicators of quality and economic value in top-of-the-line fabrics and garments.

The choice of low environmental impact or biodegradable washes and treatments, the reduction or even the elimination of the most aggressive chemical additives: these and other options make it possible to activate virtuous production cycles, free of waste and included in a more general perspective of circular economy, based, therefore, on the recovery and reuse of water and the other materials used in production.

In recent years, we have been witnessing a real manufacturing revolution in the textile industry. Technologies and processes are becoming increasingly advanced and environmentally friendly.
Think, for example, of the use of lasers and ozone, or even of the “stone free” stone wash in denim treatment: solutions that make it possible to achieve finishes that were unthinkable until very recently.

We could consider this our core-business, because all the technologies that we are developing are directly related to the garment finishing phase: washing, dyeing, lasers, treatments, etc.

Basically, with our technologies and processes, we literally do everything to increase the appeal of the garments, in denim and beyond. We also do everything, however, to respect the environment and to help make fashion a cleaner field, in every sense: because we believe that there should no longer be, in the literal sense of the words, “victims of fashion”.

To learn more, we invite you to visit the page dedicated to our finishing technologies and accessories. This way you can get an idea of what we are doing, every day, to innovate textile ennobling / finishing processes from a genuinely eco-friendly perspective.