| Receiving Fabrics |
Garment
factories receive fabric from overseas textile manufacturers in large
bolts with cardboard or plastic center tubes or in piles or bags. The fabric typically arrives in steel commercial shipping containers
and is unloaded with a forklift. Garment factories often have a
warehouse or dedicated area to store fabric between arrival and
manufacturing.
| Fabric Relaxing |
“Relaxing” refers to the process
that allows material to relax and contract prior to being manufactured.
This step is necessary because the material is continually under
tension throughout the various stages of the textile manufacturing
process, including weaving, dyeing, and other finishing processes. The
relaxing process allows fabrics to shrink so that further shrinkage
during customer use is minimized. Garment manufacturers
perform the relaxing process
either manually or mechanically. Manual fabric relaxing typically
entails loading the bolt of fabric on a spinner and manually feeding the
material through a piece of equipment that relieves tension in the
fabric as it is pulled through. Mechanical fabric relaxing performs
this same process in an automated manner.
Many garment manufacturers will also integrate quality assurance into this process to ensure that the quality of the fabric meets customer standards. This step is performed by manually spot-checking each bolt of fabric using a backlit surface to identify manufacturing defects such as color inconsistency or flaws in the material. Fabrics that fail to meet customer standards are returned to the textile manufacturer.
Many garment manufacturers will also integrate quality assurance into this process to ensure that the quality of the fabric meets customer standards. This step is performed by manually spot-checking each bolt of fabric using a backlit surface to identify manufacturing defects such as color inconsistency or flaws in the material. Fabrics that fail to meet customer standards are returned to the textile manufacturer.
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