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Textilia — synthetic wovens and knits since 1969

Techxtilia

Nine finishes, engineered onto our own base cloth.

Our technical division, and the only part of the range with names of its own. Open a card for what a finish does and where it belongs.

See the base cloth
  • Sweat beading and spreading across a knit face, raking light
    01Tech DryWicking, antimicrobial, odour freeMoves moisture off the skin, and the antimicrobial finish stops odour-causing bacteria taking hold.
  • A damp panel drying back to matte, high key
    02Tech FreshAbsorbs moisture, dries quicklyPolyester base built for fast drying.
  • Water standing in beads on a coated face, macro
    03Tech RepelentWater repellentSheds water at the surface before it reaches the cloth.
  • A dark panel in full sun, the heat coming off it
    04Cold TechReflects heat, even in dark coloursSolar reflective, for garments that live in constant sun without giving up the colour card.
  • A drop of oil sitting on the cloth and leaving no mark
    05Nano TechStain protection, cleans with water aloneBoth faces are protected, not only the outer one.
  • Fibre bundle at magnification, every filament coated
    06Soil TechIndividually coated fibres repelEach fibre is coated rather than the cloth sealed, so the fabric still absorbs and wicks.
  • The cloth folded to show both faces, one matte and one slick
    07Comfort TechQuick drying, antimicrobial, wickingThe dry hand of Tech Dry, plus a nano finish on one face that adds high repellency.
  • Scrubs on the rail in a hospital laundry, steam
    08Med Tech DrySilver treated, for medical wash countsHigh antibacterial protection on a silver-treated base, built to survive the wash cycles a hospital puts a garment through.
  • Cloth stretched over a frame outdoors at dusk
    09Buzz TechInsect repellent on one faceOne face carries the treatment; the other is left as base cloth.

01 Applications

Specified by end use, not by catalogue page.

A worker in high-visibility coveralls and a hard hat on a deck at sunset, calling in on a radio

Buyers arrive with a garment to make, not a weave to specify. Each of the four segments below carries the references that serve it.

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Uniforms

A nurse in scrubs walking out of a hospital, taking the mask down

The deepest segment, and the one with the longest reference lists. Every sub-segment carries its own weight, finish and wash requirement — a hospital gown and a school skirt are not the same problem.

Usually specified withMed Tech DrySilver treated, for medical wash counts

School
25000 · 140000 · 72000 · 10148 · 27044
Healthcare
9000 · 33308-1 · 5105 · 30086 · 5001 · 27144 · 33086 · 5007
Corporate
27144 · 27086 · 6073 · 25000 · 5001 · 9144 · 5067 · 71000 · 25031
Military
30150 · 30086 · 33308-1 · 5067 · Rip 75 · 911 · 500HTR · COLM300

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Athletic

Water standing in beads on dark technical cloth, close enough to count them

Elastane knits for sportswear and swim, where recovery and colour fastness carry the programme, alongside rigid knits and mesh for panelling.

Usually specified withTech RepelentWater repellent

Stretch
10096 · 10144 · 10809 · 10134 · 10136 · 10869 · 10080
Rigid & mesh
10495 · 10693 · 15752 · Mesh 18736 · Mesh 18144 · 10148

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Home, fashion & accessories

A pack on a back, walking a city street into low sun

Decor and contract interiors at one end, bags and luggage at the other, with yarn-dye designs and prints running through both. This is where the heavier finishes earn their keep.

Usually specified withNano TechStain protection, cleans with water alone

Decor & piece goods
30088 · 30086 · 5121 E · 27144 E · 5001 E · 71000 · 23500 · 33037
Bags & luggage
Morrales lisos · morrales gofrados · colmenas · 500HT
Finishes
Black-out · flame retardant · chintz · foam and tech coatings

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Outdoor

Two walkers with packs crossing a ridge, backlit against the mountains

Rip-stop and coated wovens built for weather and sustained sun, on high-tenacity yarns where the gear has to take abrasion as well.

Usually specified withCold TechReflects heat, even in dark colours

Shell & pack
27144 · 27086 · Rip 75 · Morral-1 · Colmena 300
High tenacity
500HT · 1000HT

From here

Some of it leaves as cloth. Some of it leaves as the garment.

Bogotá at night from the air, a lit tower downtown and the city running out to the hills

Every reference above can be bought by the roll. Where a programme needs the made-up garment instead — cut, sewn, decorated and packed — that happens on the same site as the looms.

Full package

02 The mill

Four stages, one supply chain, one address.

Vertical integration is why the lead times hold — nothing waits on an outside converter. But the stage buyers come for is the third one: dyeing and finishing is what this mill is known for, and the looms upstream are there to feed it.

  1. Ring spinning frames down the length of an aisle, bobbins filling on every head

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    Spinning

    Integrated since 1985 through a partnership with one of the largest and most modern spinning mills in Colombia. The yarn a programme runs on is decided here rather than bought in — recycled yarns included.

    Integrated 1985

  2. Rows of looms in the Textilia weaving hall, cloth rolling off each machine

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    Weaving & knitting

    Flat wovens and circular knits run on the same site, so a programme that needs both is one order and one lead time.

    Taffeta · twill · rip-stop · jersey · piqué

  3. The finishing hall, dyeing and coating lines under their pipework

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    Finishing

    The stage the rest of the chain exists to serve. Colour matched to your standard and then held there, order after order — the consistency, not the weave, is what keeps a programme here. Print and the Techxtilia finishes run on the same lines, and process water is recycled on site.

    Colour matching · colour consistency · print

  4. A sewing module in line, operators at their machines with cut work stacked between them

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    Cut & sew

    Cutting and sewing on the same site as the looms, so cloth made here does not have to be shipped out to be made up.

    Cut · sewn · decorated · packed

03 Fabrics

Woven, knit and technical, mostly polyester.

Mostly 100% polyester, and deliberately narrow. Wovens run polyester with a little poly-cotton; knits are polyester and poly-lycra, and nothing else. A short fibre list is what makes a colour repeatable.

Metres woven a month
1,200,000
Metres knit a month
300,000–400,000
  • Twill at macro range, warp and weft resolved thread by thread

    Woven

    Tejido plano

    The volume business, and still the widest catalogue — flat cloth was the whole company until the knits arrived in the nineties. Mostly 100% polyester, with a little poly-cotton.

    • Taffeta
    • Twill
    • Rip-stop
    • Coated wovens
  • Jersey knit at macro range, the loop structure raked by low light

    Knit

    Tejido de punto

    Circular knits for stretch programmes. Polyester and poly-lycra only, and the lycra blends are what carry the athletic and swim ranges.

    • Jersey
    • Piqué
    • Poly / spandex
    • Lycra blends
  • Water standing in beads on a coated cloth, none of it soaking in

    Technical

    Telas técnicas

    Base cloth carrying one of the nine Techxtilia finishes, specified by what it has to survive rather than by how it is built.

    • Antimicrobial
    • Water repellent
    • Solar reflective
    • Insect repellent

Uniform linings and silks

18 references · published specification

Suffixes mark finish variants of the same construction — a WR reference is the water repellent one.

Published specification for 18 uniform lining and silk references: weave, composition, weight in grams per square metre and width in metres.
ReferenceWeaveCompositionWeightWidth
5105Taffeta100% polyester92 g/m²1.50 m
5107Taffeta100% polyester135 g/m²1.50 m
RIP 27044Rip-stop100% polyester110 g/m²1.60 m
RIP 75Rip-stop100% polyester86 g/m²1.50 m
27084Twill100% polyester113 g/m²1.50 m
27144Taffeta100% polyester114 g/m²1.50 m
27144ETaffeta100% polyester114 g/m²1.50 m
27144AWRTaffeta100% polyester116 g/m²1.50 m
27144EWRTaffeta100% polyester116 g/m²1.50 m
27147Taffeta100% polyester143 g/m²1.50 m
27147AWRTaffeta100% polyester143 g/m²1.50 m
6073Taffeta100% polyester149 g/m²1.50 m
6073ARWRTaffeta100% polyester145 g/m²1.50 m
6073EWRTaffeta100% polyester142 g/m²1.50 m
6074TaffetaPoly / spandex134 g/m²1.40 m
6074AWRTaffetaPoly / spandex134 g/m²1.40 m
6075TwillPoly / spandex162 g/m²1.37 m
27086Taffeta100% polyester94 g/m²1.50 m

Weights and widths for the knit, athletic and outdoor ranges are available on request.

Defence

Some of the work here is not ours to describe.

Part of the technical range is supplied under agreements that do not let us name the cloth, the finish, or what it is specified for. It is work the mill is proud of, and this paragraph is as much of it as we are able to publish. If you are specifying to a defence requirement, ask us directly.

04 Cut & sew

Full package: the garment, not just the cloth.

An order can arrive as a sketch and leave as boxed, labelled garments. Six steps, and the list below is the order they happen in.

Sewing modules
7
Garments a month
200,000
Supplier, fabric to freight
1
Finished garments on hangers, ready to pack

  1. 01

    Fabric production

    Colour and print to your specification: spot, panel or roll to roll.

  2. 02

    Design

    Patterns and tech packs drawn here if you do not arrive with them.

  3. 03

    Cutting

    Marker, spread and cut against the approved pattern.

  4. 04

    Sewing

    Bulk production of the approved garment.

  5. 05

    Spot decoration

    Embroidery, screen printing, branded trims and tags.

  6. 06

    Packaging

    Bags, boxes and packing to your specification.

In proportion

Full package is a small share of our monthly volume, and we would rather say so than let a buyer find it out at the quote. Fabric is the volume business; these modules take the programmes where the garment, not the roll, is what has to ship.

05 Contact

Send us the garment, the wash cycle and the volume.

Quotes and sample requests are routed by segment, so the reply comes from the people who run that programme.

Request a quoteAsk for samples

Or send it from here

Goes to our sales desk. We reply to the address you give.

Fabric by the roll
Reference, weight, width, finish
Full package
Garment, tech pack, volume, dates
Samples
Hand feel and wash test before you commit
ventas@textilia.com.co(601) 518 9619