- Organised retailing with modern technology can guide the economy along, cut costs, curb avoidable losses, increase production and employment as well as make available products to consumers at competitive prices

- Shirting fabric’s behaviour and performance can be assessed by the objective measurement of fabric mechanical properties.

- Gloss, dimensional stability and an increased bursting strength are the main goals of knitwear mercerisation.

- A developed image capturing and analysis system is capable of online fabric defect detection and full control in circular knitting machine.

- Fabric weights have higher effect on seam bending length at low stitches/cm and minimum bending lengths, and accordingly higher seam drapeability, were obtained at lower fabric weights and lower stitches/cm.

- Comfort of apparels can be quantified in an objective manner in terms of the properties of non-sensorial comfort characteristics, aver M Dhinakaran, S Sundaresan, and Dr B S Dasaradan.

- Indian knitwear industries have to gear up to the international needs and capture many untapped markets.

- The quality of the knit fabrics in the future will be defined for variation in loop parameters at micro level such as loop-to-loop variation in dimension, geometrical shape of loop and localised variation in loop density

- Flocking is used not only on textiles, T-shirts and sportswear, but also applied in all fields of surface treatment, and above all, in many technical applications, says K Saravanan.