How New Fabrics Come to Life

About this episode

The episode explores the behind-the-scenes process of fabric development and the challenges faced before products reach consumers.

Send us Fan Mail Ever wonder what actually happens before a fabric hits the shop? In this episode, we sit down with RBTR's own Carter Holland to pull back the curtain on product decisions, failures, tradeoffs, and future releases you won’t hear about anywhere else. How fabric ideas really get approved or quietly killed before they ever reach your sewing tableWhat goes wrong during development and testing and why some “almost launched” materials never see the light of dayThe unspoken constrain...

People in this episode

Guest: Carter Holland

Topics covered

• fabric development
• product decisions
• material testing
• sewing
• tradeoffs

Keywords

• fabric
• development
• testing
• sewing table
• product failures
• material approval

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: RBTR

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