Sometimes a job or project doesn’t quite go as we drew it up, and we escape to tell the tale. Fashion professor and influencer Zoe Hong (of ZoeHong.com fame) and two veterans of the TVF Print Media Sales Team, Danny Jimenez and Leif Kristensen,...
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Textile Nerd Podcast: Democratization of Design
Access is everything for print media professionals. Third-generation textile printer Kathryn Sanders, founder and CEO of print studio Western Sensibility, hips us to a philosophy she calls the...
Honoring Shelly Hirschinger
Shelly Hirschinger’s career at TVF has revolved around service, expertise, and incomparable responsiveness. After some 19 years in textiles, one of TVF’s most well-known senior sales consultants is...
Your Problems Solved with Polyester Linen
Polyester linen fabric combines the unmistakable texture and durability of natural linen with the performance benefits of engineered durability and printability. TVF’s poly linen lineup features...
Textile Nerd Podcast: Education, Supply Chain
In the ever-evolving textile ecosystem, industry-focused education remains a critical piece of the puzzle. In the United States, issues including supply chain, sustainability, and...
Honoring Jim Prestipino
Jim Prestipino has almost spent his entire career after college focused on textiles. From swing shift work at his hometown mill to more than 22 years at TVF, Jim’s knowledge, first-in-last-out work...
Textile Nerd Podcast: Polyester Prejudice
Does polyester get a bad wrap in the fashion, apparel, and movie world? If you ask longtime textile print maven and Hollywood costume printer Steven Moreno of MY Prints, the answer is an emphatic...
Three TVF Sales Legends Retire
Three of TVF Inc.’s longest-serving and most accomplished senior sales consultants are retiring. James Durant, Jim Prestipino, and Shelly Hirschinger have combined for more than 75 years of serving...
Textile Nerd Podcast: All Hands on Fabric
Bringing any fabric to market takes a dizzying number of hands along the way... especially for a newly-developed material. From fiber-to-fruition, textiles will be put through all the paces until...
TVF Updates Our Pledge to Remove PFAS
Since 2022, TVF has actively worked with our partners to phase out materials containing per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), and develop safer alternatives. More than 90% of the products we...
Tracking Trends at The 2025 SHOT Week Supplier Showcase
This year’s SHOT Week Supplier Showcase offered shooting, hunting, tactical, and outdoor material suppliers like TVF a turn in the bright lights of Las Vegas. The two-day opener to the 2025 SHOT...
Critical Questions to Enhance the Fabric Buying Experience
As you begin exploring the range of fabric options to best fit your specific application, here are 13 key questions to ponder (or to ask!) before you journey toward a textile solution. To unlock the...
Textile Nerd Podcast: 3D Textiles
As new textiles evolve faster than we can measure, modeling, testing, and quality control are increasingly going digital - to the 3D textiles realm - to keep pace. One of the great minds on the...
Your Problems Solved: Dye Sublimation Printing
Whether it’s the productivity possibilities, volume variabilities, killer color fidelity, or impeccable image reproductions, dye sublimation (dye sub) printing offers so many advantages. Getting the...
50 Years of Problem Solving
TVF was founded 50 years ago, and providing solutions when you need fabric – the right fabric for your specific end use – remains our mission. Over the years, the textile world, the global economy,...
TVF is Your Equestrian Fabric Solution
The responsibilities that accompany horse ownership, showing, riding, and husbandry are almost endless. For those who make the tack and accessories that make the equestrian world run, endless equals...
Textile Nerd Podcast: Employee Ownership
The principles of employee ownership can apply to so many facets of textiles. Along with the financial benefits, it also involves concepts like constant improvement, leading from where you are, and...
Textile Nerd Podcast: Expert Witness
The term expert witness often evokes high-pressure courtroom scenes and "gotchya" moments for ne'er-do-wells. In the case of the textile industry, an expert witness could also be a knowledgeable,...
Textile Nerd Podcast: Our History
The textile industry's history and influence goes back centuries, but during the last 50 years, the company that brings you this podcast has imprinted its own mark on the ancient craft. As TVF winds...
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