43 Useful Sites and Blogs for Garment and Textile Professionals

Like me, you may be looking for more and more online resources for reading and latest
updates on apparel and textile industry. Last year, I have discovered few good sites that I like
to share with you. I am also sharing most common and popular sites to apparel industry
professionals. Most of the sites are professional blogs, sites by institutes and organizations
and online publications.
I have listed down those sites below in alphabetic order.
I have missed many good online resources. If you know a name with good reading materials,
tips and tricks for fashion professionals, please write that link on below comment box.
1. ASTM Textile Standards provide the specifications and test methods for the
physical, mechanical, and chemical properties of textiles, fabrics, and cloths, as well
as the natural and artificial fibers that constitute them.
2. Apparel Merchandising, a blog on apparel merchandising, textile printing, knitting,
garments manufacturing, embroidery etc.
3. A fashionable stitch, a blog on sewing tips and tricks.
4. A&E, a site by American thread manufacturer. Under tab Technical Tools you will get
pdf documents related to yarns, threads, seam, Stitches and Needles. For example
http://www.amefird.com/technical-tools/tech-bulletins/apparel/
5. Better work. Go to Publication and resources tab. Lot of good material on factory
compliances
6. Clothesource, an online library. You can download publications for free.
7. Costs international, a site by Coats, sewing thread manufacturer. You will find
technical report on sewing report, thread consumption guide and more.
8. Coletterie, a blog for sewing tips, ideas.
9. Clean Cloth Campaign is dedicated to improving working conditions and supporting
the empowerment of workers in the global garment and sportswear industries. You
will find case history on compliance issues in garment factory around the world.
10. Denim and Jeans, a Blog by Denim expert Sandeep Agarwal. You will find lot of
articles on denim processes, denim brands, denim market and lot more.
11. Ellis Developments Limited . This site is not well designed but contains great
tutorials for knitting manufacturing and apparel quality management.
12. Elyon Ltd provides good contents related General Sewing Data. You will get most of
the answers of your questions related to General sewing Data (GSD).

13. Fabric.com Blog, a blog on fabrics.

14. Fashion Incubator, a blog by Kathleen Fasanella. Blog has numerous articles
covered lot of topics such as pattern making, garment manufacturing to tip on sewing
etc.
15. Fibre to Fashion Fibre2Fashion is a business to business portal. This site publishes
numerous articles covering whole topics from fibre to fashion.
16. Fashioning an Ethical Industry, is a labor behind the label project. You will get here
reports on sustainable fashion, factsheets, books.
17. Garmento is good resource for Stitches and Seam guide.
18. GSD General sewing data, official site of General sewing data.
19. How to start a Clothing Company, the name of the site is self explanatory what you
get inside. Good guides for those who think to start business in clothing.
20. Just-style, an online publication that publishes latest news, research study, and market
research reports etc.
21. Knitting Industry, an online publication on knitting industry.
22. Knitting Help, provides tips on knitting, knitting pattern, videos on knitting and
more.
23. My textile notes, a blog by Priyank Goel on textile and garment processes.
24. Nancys Notions, a website by Nancy.
25. Pattern School, a great site for those who wants to learn garment pattern making
online.
26. Reach help desk for apparel exporters
27. Rikipedia textile knowledge base by Rieter. A knowledge base on textile yarn
spinning process.
28. Sew Easy sewing classes for kids and teens.
29. Sew Daily, a site where you will get sewing tips, free E-book on various topics.
30. Sewing Insight has lot of reviews on industrial sewing machine of different brands.
31. Stitch World, an online magazine with valuable article in garment manufacturing,
machinery and latest technology. They have both paid and free article.
32. Textile School, a blog on textile and garment manufacturing, processes, terms and
definitions. Good tutorials for newbie and students.

33. Textile Testing international, a blog by a Textile Testing Lab. Blog has articles on
textiles testing methods.
34. Textile/Clothing Technology Corporation, a site by non-profit organization. You
will get valuable articles here.
35. The textile Institute, a site by the organization The Textile Institute.
36. Textile learner, a blog that explains textile and garment terms, different processes of
garment and textiles. Good read for students.
37. Texogenic provides you online calculator for textiles.
38. Textile Link publishes articles and links covering spinning, weaving, quilting, felting,
knitting, sewing, dyeing, and the whole world of textiles. Links to supply sources,
organizations, museums, events, training, etc)
39. Toyota textile machinery. Read this site to know history to present of textile
machinery.
40. Threads, an online thread magazine. How-to-do sewing guides.
41. The Indian Textile Journal, an online publication that also publishes free articles. To
read articles go to features Category wise.
42. Vasant Kothari, a site by Mr. Vasant Kothari. He has posted number of presentations
on textile topics for students.
43. Vintage Fashion Guild, a resource for vintage fashion.