The 22-year career of Cynthia Enriquez at TVF almost got short-circuited before it started. The friendly voice and helpful presence who guides customers to the correct place when they call the TVF Carson, California office had already spent a couple days at a...
Meet SunMaster® Lite, the latest innovation from TVF Inc. designed to elevate your outdoor products with unbeatable performance in a lighter, easier‑to‑handle package. This 5.5 oz. solution‑dyed...
At the intersection of textile nerdery, industry-tested information, and accessible learning lies a free tool we're proud to be part of: the TVF Resource Center. On this edition of The Textile Nerd...
Fabrics that deliver true high-performance – rugged and ready for tactical, emergency, and often gritty situations – can be tough to come by. They’re worth their weight in gold when they...
Timothy Mitchell has a gift. The Practical Printer, as he’s known, is renowned for making complex printing processes and terminology more easy to understand. On this edition of The Textile Nerd...
More than four decades working with textiles coupled with even more time adventuring on trails, skies, tracks, and slopes helps Robert Hinsch understand high-performance fabrics on a deeper level...
Knit polyester and cotton fabrics feature numerous benefits as the base material for apparel end-uses, but finding the right option for your application could be overwhelming at first glance....
In a world full of influential fashion figures, be more like Zoë Hong. That's one impression Lori and Dan came away with during this wide-ranging discussion with one of YouTube's most engaging...
For decades, CORDURA® fabrics have been synonymous with durability and resilience to tears, scuffs, and abrasion. If you’ve manufactured anything with CORDURA® Advanced Fabrics in the past, you may...
Call it what you will: gear, garb, dress, attire, jersey, outfit. Use it how you will: in the workplace, on the field of play, in the line of duty, in a clinical setting. Uniforms manufactured with...
The pantheon of memorable holiday commercials is extensive, and one car company's ad campaign still stands out year-after-year: Lexus bows. But what's the story behind the elegant accoutrement?...
In apparel fabric, we often focus only on its 2-way or 4-way stretch characteristics. While those are the most concise and common descriptors, we also love to get more granular with customers about...
Decorators, designers, and clothing manufacturers continue to demand high-performance fabrics for projects spanning the home décor and apparel universes. Whether it’s for wallcoverings or window...
In a companion to our "Why Do Trade Shows Matter?" episode, we welcome Erica Roudabush and Blake Theademan to Podcast Row of Advanced Textiles Expo 2025 to talk about their impressions based on...
What better place to answer the question "why do trade shows matter" than the floor of one of the most well-known textile trade shows around? Lori and Dan talk with Robert Hinsch from podcast row at...
Known globally for its uncompromising quality and known in print shops for its exceptional consistency and printability, Georg+Otto Friedrich (GOF) exudes the word “premium.” GOF is not only the...
TVF’s two most high-profile trade shows of 2025 are behind us, and preparations for 2026 are already in high gear. PRINTING United Expo 2025 and Advanced Textiles Expo 2025 offered our teams...
A bold, printed pattern on a fresh-looking golf shirt or windshirt is a sunny weather mainstay. If customers want to stay on-trend and wear what the pros are wearing, GOLF.com’s trendwatchers say...
Since 2010, TVF has been 100% employee owned. The transition transformed our company and instilled a more personal connection to our mission to deliver the highest degree of service for our...
choose the best possible fabric
