Winter goods include wool sweaters, heavy
topcoats, and gloves.
Other Textile End-Use
Industries
Commercially-produced wearing apparel is
not the only end use for textiles. Other markets
include household or home furnishings products,
industrial textile products, and the home sewing
industry. Household textile products comprise
about 40 percent of the total U.S. end-use textile
market, 4-14. Industrial textile products make
up about 25 percent with a continual increase
taking place. Apparel fabrics comprise about
35 percent and are decreasing in relation to the
total U.S. market.
Household Textile
Products
The household textile products industry
manufactures fabrics for fl oor coverings, home
furnishings, and domestics. Floor coverings
include rugs and carpets. Home furnishings
mainly include window treatments and furniture
coverings, 4-15. Domestics include bed, bath,
and kitchen textiles, 4-16. These three categories
are further described in the chart, 4-17.
Household textiles, or decorator fabrics,
follow fashion trends that are broader and slower
moving than apparel trends. Besides the fashion
aspects of color, pattern, texture, drape, etc.,
performance is an important consideration for
household textiles. Textile performance takes into
account such fabric attributes as strength and
durability, colorfastness (how well the color holds
End-Use Markets of Textile Products
Apparel =
35 percent
(decreasing)
Household =
40 percent (steady)
Constantly
changing with
fashion; not
produced in volume
Slower fashion
changes of color,
pattern, etc.
Upholstery,
carpeting, drapes,
tableclothes, sheets,
towels, etc.
Need performance
(stain resistance, color-
fastness, durability) to
last for about 10 years
Timing is important to
reach retail at height of
popularity
Expected lifetime
of garment is
about 4 years
Industrial
& misc. =
25 percent (rising)
Sales based on
performance specifications
Many different detailed uses
and lifetime expectations
4-14 End-use markets of textile products
include apparel, home furnishings, and
industrial products. The apparel slice is
getting smaller by percentage of the total,
and industrial use is increasing.
Burlington Industries
4-15 Home furnishings is an important
market for textiles. These fabrics were
especially developed for home decorating.
Revman Industries/AEON Group
4-16 These fashionable home textiles
are for the household category called
domestics.
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Winter goods include wool sweaters, heavy
topcoats, and gloves.
Other Textile End-Use
Industries
Commercially-produced wearing apparel is
not the only end use for textiles. Other markets
include household or home furnishings products,
industrial textile products, and the home sewing
industry. Household textile products comprise
about 40 percent of the total U.S. end-use textile
market, 4-14. Industrial textile products make
up about 25 percent with a continual increase
taking place. Apparel fabrics comprise about
35 percent and are decreasing in relation to the
total U.S. market.
Household Textile
Products
The household textile products industry
manufactures fabrics for fl oor coverings, home
furnishings, and domestics. Floor coverings
include rugs and carpets. Home furnishings
mainly include window treatments and furniture
coverings, 4-15. Domestics include bed, bath,
and kitchen textiles, 4-16. These three categories
are further described in the chart, 4-17.
Household textiles, or decorator fabrics,
follow fashion trends that are broader and slower
moving than apparel trends. Besides the fashion
aspects of color, pattern, texture, drape, etc.,
performance is an important consideration for
household textiles. Textile performance takes into
account such fabric attributes as strength and
durability, colorfastness (how well the color holds
End-Use Markets of Textile Products
Apparel =
35 percent
(decreasing)
Household =
40 percent (steady)
Constantly
changing with
fashion; not
produced in volume
Slower fashion
changes of color,
pattern, etc.
Upholstery,
carpeting, drapes,
tableclothes, sheets,
towels, etc.
Need performance
(stain resistance, color-
fastness, durability) to
last for about 10 years
Timing is important to
reach retail at height of
popularity
Expected lifetime
of garment is
about 4 years
Industrial
& misc. =
25 percent (rising)
Sales based on
performance specifications
Many different detailed uses
and lifetime expectations
4-14 End-use markets of textile products
include apparel, home furnishings, and
industrial products. The apparel slice is
getting smaller by percentage of the total,
and industrial use is increasing.
Burlington Industries
4-15 Home furnishings is an important
market for textiles. These fabrics were
especially developed for home decorating.
Revman Industries/AEON Group
4-16 These fashionable home textiles
are for the household category called
domestics.
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