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MANIERA Magazine Vol 1 Issue 6- Feb 2013

This month of MANIERA we feature some truly awe inspiring and innovative artist: Dave Behrens, Dan Quirk, Ulric Colette, Hayley Scanlan Scottish Designer of the year, as well as the new lingerie collection from Chysalis made specifically for transgender women.

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MANIERA Magazine is looking for contributors!

MANIERA Magazine is looking for contributors for our Men's Style column! If you have a flair for writing, have a passion for men's fashion and would like exposure for your blog then we want to hear from you. Please contact us at editor@mymaniera.com

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MANIERA Magazine Vol 1 Issue 6- Feb 2013

Art from Australia, Canada & USA. Fashion & Technology from Scotland. 3D fun from Japan & USA. Chocolate from Mexico. Travel from France. .. and more. Go global with MANIERA

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When making a Pattern or making a marker for a given design in the apparel industry many times young designers and small start up companies can not afford the cost of a state of the art plotter due to high cost and maintenance service required periodically to maintain these digital plotters running.


Fortunately, you are not obligated to pay twenty thousand dollars for a state of the art paper-plotting machine when y

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Young designers—at the risk of insulting you, it amazes me how many of you don’t have the first clue about buying fabrics. I mean, your fabrics are the cornerstone of your designs and making sure you can get your hands on them for production before you make your samples, is essential. Why did you create that beautiful dress with a yard of novelty fabric that you picked up at the flea market last summer? Do you think that the 100 yards you need for production will just apparate magically? Praying

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A Breakthrough for Closets Everywhere

How many times have you browsed the racks at your favorite boutique only to say “This shirt would be fabulous - if only . . .”?Right there in that moment, you wish you could rip off that gaudy text or change that lime green getup to a more flattering Kelly green. Well, boutique near-misses, now you can.Thanks to Custom Tee Couture, your closet just got a little more personal, not to mention a lot more fabulous. Be among the first to try Custom Tee Couture’s patent pending iDesign software that a
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Reactive Printing

Trying to educate myself regarding the "reactive printing" process. Actually, I have not had an easy time locating a perfect (easy to understand) definition of the reactive ink process. Today I actually realized that I do not even have a definition in the Apparel Search Glossary. I will have to work on compiling a good definition. Here are two definitions that I have found that I thought may be of some help. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_dye_printing February 25, 2009: "Reactive d
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Block Printing : The oldest known form of printing known to man. Motifs are obtained by the use of wooden, linoleum or copper blocks. This hand operation is very tedious. Production rate is very slow with this process and pricing is generally high.. There has to be a separate block used for each color chosen by the designer. The idea behind the Fashion Industry Network is to help educate one another. Therefore, I thought that I would use the blog feature to provide a few definitions regarding p
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OK, you probably already know this information. If so, you can simply disregard this post. This message is actually for members that are new to printing on textiles. Screen printing... Silk, nylon or polyester is used as the screen in this printing process. The silk, nylon or poly screen is spread over the frame which, according to the desired design, has portions of the scren surface covered or enameled by a coating. Covered areas will not tke on the dyestuff (inks). The open areas allow the c
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Brother Digital Garment Printer

I often receive questions from new designers regarding where they can find printers to create sample runs of their designs. This is not a printing service, but I thought that some of you would be interested in learning about an option of printing your own t-shirts. The Brother GT-541 uses ink jet technology that prints on many garments in high quality color directly from a computer. This ink jet garment printer is as simple to operate as a desktop printer, which can be networked with multiple
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