Fabrics and technologies for footwear & accessories
04 Oct '06
2 min read
An additional significant criterion is the weight which ranges from the extremely light fabric to the compact weight class. Increasingly, lighter fabrics with good stability are being used for running, sailing, tennis or athletic shoes. Basic or trim materials for every application can alsobe found at Schoeller.
Fabrics for the special “click” The fashion, business and leisure shoe requires not only a certain functionality and comfort of wear. It also needs “the right look” – it has to “click”. An example of this are top modern reflex fabrics, textiles with the new semi-transparency, cheeky 3D structures and lots of gold, silver, copper and metallic variations. Other fabrics from the spirit line and stretch fabrics from the dynamic and the highly-durable dynamic-extreme range also combine a cool appearance with modern function.