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A fabric is approved in the lab, shipped to the buyer, and suddenly looks different under shop lighting. Anyone in garment manufacturing has seen this. A navy that looks right near a window can turn greyer under office tubes, and a white shirt can glow under UV in ways nobody expected. Often the cause is … Continue reading D65, TL84 and UV Light Sources: What Is the Difference?

What Are Pantone Color Standards? Pantone Color Standards are the standardized colour references built around the Pantone Color System, where each shade carries its own identifier. A name like "sky blue" is open to interpretation. A code is not. For textiles, designers typically cite codes from Pantone's fashion and home range, often supplied as cotton-based … Continue reading What Are Pantone Color Standards and Why Are They Important?

Every garment starts with fabric, and every fabric roll carries some risk. One hidden flaw can ruin dozens of cut panels. That is why a fabric inspection machine sits at the centre of fabric quality control in mills, garment factories and buying-house labs across India, from Tiruppur to Bangalore. This guide explains what the equipment … Continue reading What Is a Fabric Inspection Machine?

Amith Garment Services is pleased to announce its feature in the September 2026 edition of Apparel Views Magazine, highlighting the company’s contribution to textile testing, quality control, and laboratory instrumentation. The feature, titled “Amith Garment Services launched new textile testing equipment,” appears in the magazine’s September 2026 issue and focuses on the company’s role in … Continue reading Amith Garment Services Featured in Apparel Views Magazine for Advanced Textile Testing Equipment

If you have spent any time in a fabric mill, a garment factory, or a buying house quality lab, you have probably heard someone ask, "What's the GSM on this fabric?" It's one of the first questions raised when a new fabric lot arrives, and for good reason. Fabric weight tells you a lot about … Continue reading What Is a GSM Machine and How Does It Work?

Anyone who has compared a fabric swatch near a window in the morning and then again under office tube lights knows the shade never looks quite the same twice. That shift isn't imagination — it's a real optical phenomenon, and it's one of the biggest headaches in textile production. A color matching cabinet solves this … Continue reading What Is a Color Matching Cabinet and How Does It Work?

When a dyed fabric rubs against another surface — a car seat, a pair of hands, another garment in a suitcase — some of that colour can transfer. Anyone who has picked up a new pair of dark jeans and noticed blue staining on their palms has seen this happen firsthand. In a textile lab, … Continue reading What Is a Crock Meter? Working Principle, Testing Procedure & Applications in Textile Testing

If you've spent any time on a textile testing floor, you already know that a fabric or yarn can look perfectly fine and still fail under load. That's exactly why a universal testing machine tensile test exists — it tells you, in numbers, how much force a material can take before it gives way. For … Continue reading Tensile Testing on a UTM: Step-by-Step Method for Fabric and Yarn

When a customer buys a shirt, a bedsheet, or a school uniform, the last thing they expect is for the colour to bleed or fade after the first few washes. Yet this is one of the most common quality complaints textile manufacturers and garment exporters deal with. Colour durability during laundering is not a minor … Continue reading Washing Fastness Tester: Working Principle, Procedure, Standards & Applications

Introduction The quality of a textile product is determined long before the finished garment reaches the customer. Every stage of textile production, from fibre selection and yarn manufacturing to fabric processing and garment production, can influence the final quality and performance of the material. This is why textile testing methods play an important role in … Continue reading Textile Testing Methods: A Complete Guide to Fabric Quality Testing