Posts Tagged: Textiles
Camira launches Deca, a vegan friendly and bleach cleanable PU
Camira are global textile innovators who love designing and manufacturing fabrics for a huge range of commercial interiors from offices to education to healthcare and hospitality. The company is forever pushing the boundaries of sustainable design and is the name behind industry leading textile innovations such as fabrics made from harvested nettles and commercially grown… Read More >
Malone Fabrics introduces skai® Design Lab – faux leather printed with your own design
Malone Fabrics Ltd is the exclusive distributor of skai synthetic leather for the UK and Ireland. The extensive range of synthetic leathers can be used for the Hospitality, Healthcare and Marine sectors and conform to the highest flame retardancy standards including Crib 5 and IMO. [Find Malone Fabrics on the BCFA Product Finder] With the… Read More >
Recycling at Trevira: Sustainable in many ways
Trevira GmbH is a European manufacturer of polyester speciality fibres and filament yarns for the textile industry, among them permanently flame retardant fibres and yarns for contract textiles under the brand name Trevira CS and Trevira CS Bioactive. From the curtains to upholstery fabrics, from wall coverings to partition blinds, from interior solar protection to… Read More >
Skopos’ Luxurious Blackout Velvet Basecloth -Sonno
Skopos has almost 50 years’ experience of developing flame-retardant fabrics and soft furnishings for the contract market. (Discover Skopos through BCFA Product Finder) Sonno velvet is a recent addition to the Skopos base-cloth offer for all of Skopos’ beautiful print designs and will be the base-cloth for the (soon to be launched) Palmyra print (pictured)…. Read More >
Flame retardant textiles for the maritime sector
This month our focus is the cruise sector, we took this opportunity to discuss textile requirements with Trevira CS. The special requirements relating to the safety of passengers on cruise ships include particularly stringent fire protection regulations which also govern the sector of interior furnishing. Flame retardant Trevira CS fabrics can pass the relevant requirements… Read More >
Workplace design post COVID-19 with Camira’s Group Design Manager, Ciara Crossan
In light of the current pandemic, Camira’s Group Design Manager, Ciara Crossan, told us how she foresees workplace design changing post COVID-19. As we navigate our way through these turbulent times, our way of life and way we approach design is ultimately changing as we adapt to a state of abnormality. Looking ahead, we expect… Read More >
Q&A with Laura Taylor, Junior Contract Designer at ILIV
Laura Taylor has worked for BCFA member ILIV for over 4 years. In her role as Junior Contract Designer Laura works closely with Senior Designer Emily Arch, as part of ILIV’s thriving design department, which currently includes 3 textiles designers, 5 home designs and 2 contract designers. Design Insider sat down with Laura to ask… Read More >