Black Swan Textiles
(Source: Black Swan)
Countless mills around the world produce fabrics for apparel. Fabric mills do not have an effective means to manage what they have already developed, and brands do not have an effective way to find the fabric that they need. Fabric development and replication follow a lengthy, uncertain, and circuitous path. As a result, brands have long product development calendars and mills absorb the resulting development costs.
BlackOPS defines the key attributes required to comprehensively model fabric and leverages those data to transform an inspiration into a specification.
Black Swan Textiles LLC, Bear, DE/USA, has completed the Proof of Concept of the BlackOPS Fabric Decoder (BFD), which defines the key attributes required to comprehensively model fabric and leverages those data to transform an inspiration into a specification. BFD employs Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to analyze a knit fabric of unknown origin and derive knitting machine set-up instructions. In essence, this novel technology provides a searchable, digital definition of knit fabrics.
In this video, Kip Fulks (co-founder of Under Armour), Keith Dartley (President of Swisstex Direct), Frank Henderson (President of Henderson Sewing Machine Company), Brad Ballentine (CEO of Fox River Knitting Mills), Mike Moody (President of Trex Machine Group), and Keith Hoover (President of Black Swan Textiles) discuss this technology.
BlackOPS defines the key attributes required to comprehensively model fabric and leverages those data to transform an inspiration into a specification.
Black Swan Textiles LLC, Bear, DE/USA, has completed the Proof of Concept of the BlackOPS Fabric Decoder (BFD), which defines the key attributes required to comprehensively model fabric and leverages those data to transform an inspiration into a specification. BFD employs Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to analyze a knit fabric of unknown origin and derive knitting machine set-up instructions. In essence, this novel technology provides a searchable, digital definition of knit fabrics.
Black Swan Textiles - BlackOPS Fabric Decoder
In this video, Kip Fulks (co-founder of Under Armour), Keith Dartley (President of Swisstex Direct), Frank Henderson (President of Henderson Sewing Machine Company), Brad Ballentine (CEO of Fox River Knitting Mills), Mike Moody (President of Trex Machine Group), and Keith Hoover (President of Black Swan Textiles) discuss this technology.
