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16.10.2026

Costikyan revives custom carpet business

Costikyan, a US company established in 1886, has announced the launch of Costikyan Custom Carpet. The move is presented as a return to the company’s roots in fine rugs and carpet products.

Custom floor textiles occupy a distinct position between textile manufacturing, interior design and contract furnishing. Bespoke specifications place particular demands on material selection, colour consistency, surface design and project execution. 

The company’s launch announcement confirms the new business direction, but detailed technical specifications, production capacities and project examples should be obtained directly from Costikyan before claims about performance or scale are published.

Costikyan, a US company established in 1886, has announced the launch of Costikyan Custom Carpet. The move is presented as a return to the company’s roots in fine rugs and carpet products.

Custom floor textiles occupy a distinct position between textile manufacturing, interior design and contract furnishing. Bespoke specifications place particular demands on material selection, colour consistency, surface design and project execution. 

The company’s launch announcement confirms the new business direction, but detailed technical specifications, production capacities and project examples should be obtained directly from Costikyan before claims about performance or scale are published.

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Costikyan custom carpet rugs floor textiles interior design contract interiors
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Costikyan Inc.

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12.10.2026

Pallas brings high-performance, lower-impact textiles into healthcare interiors

Pallas Textiles will present its Giverny collection and broader healthcare portfolio at the Healthcare Design Conference + Expo in New Orleans. The collection translates nature-inspired colour and pattern into upholstery, panel and privacy-curtain applications intended for patient, waiting and care environments.

The company highlights performance and material choices alongside design. The Toile pattern is specified for very high abrasion exposure, while Nymphea incorporates SEAQUAL YARN and post-consumer recycled polyester and is designed for bleach cleanability. Pallas also points to material platforms including biodegradable vinyl and bio-attributed or biobased options across its portfolio.

The relevance for contract interiors lies in the combined specification challenge: healthcare fabrics have to support visual and tactile comfort while meeting demanding durability, cleaning and disclosure requirements. Pallas will show the collection from 17 to 20 October.

Pallas Textiles will present its Giverny collection and broader healthcare portfolio at the Healthcare Design Conference + Expo in New Orleans. The collection translates nature-inspired colour and pattern into upholstery, panel and privacy-curtain applications intended for patient, waiting and care environments.

The company highlights performance and material choices alongside design. The Toile pattern is specified for very high abrasion exposure, while Nymphea incorporates SEAQUAL YARN and post-consumer recycled polyester and is designed for bleach cleanability. Pallas also points to material platforms including biodegradable vinyl and bio-attributed or biobased options across its portfolio.

The relevance for contract interiors lies in the combined specification challenge: healthcare fabrics have to support visual and tactile comfort while meeting demanding durability, cleaning and disclosure requirements. Pallas will show the collection from 17 to 20 October.

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Pallas Textiles Giverny healthcare interiors upholstery privacy curtains SEAQUAL YARN recycled polyester Healthcare Design Conference
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Pallas Textiles

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UNIFI, Inc.
09.10.2026

UNIFI combines spun-yarn hand with filament performance and adds fluorine-free water resistance

UNIFI has introduced Cofira™, a yarn platform designed to combine the visual and tactile character of spun yarns with filament-yarn functionality. The construction can incorporate other UNIFI technologies and is offered in virgin and REPREVE polyester, including REPREVE Takeback. 

Recycled options can be traced through FiberPrint and are linked to U-TRUST, GRS and SCS certification claims. The company is also expanding its water-resistant portfolio with Resist2O™ Pro. Rather than relying on a conventional topical durable-water-repellent finish, the technology is engineered for different forms of fabric construction and is described as fluorine-free and PFOA-free below 5 ppb.

UNIFI positions the two developments for apparel, furnishings, gear, accessories and industrial applications. Both will be presented in October at Performance Days in Munich and Functional Fabric Fair in Portland, giving the technologies immediate exposure to performance-material developers.

 

UNIFI has introduced Cofira™, a yarn platform designed to combine the visual and tactile character of spun yarns with filament-yarn functionality. The construction can incorporate other UNIFI technologies and is offered in virgin and REPREVE polyester, including REPREVE Takeback. 

Recycled options can be traced through FiberPrint and are linked to U-TRUST, GRS and SCS certification claims. The company is also expanding its water-resistant portfolio with Resist2O™ Pro. Rather than relying on a conventional topical durable-water-repellent finish, the technology is engineered for different forms of fabric construction and is described as fluorine-free and PFOA-free below 5 ppb.

UNIFI positions the two developments for apparel, furnishings, gear, accessories and industrial applications. Both will be presented in October at Performance Days in Munich and Functional Fabric Fair in Portland, giving the technologies immediate exposure to performance-material developers.

 

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UNIFI REPREVE Cofira Resist2O Pro DWR Fluorine-Free FiberPrint yarn technology furnishings
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 UNIFI, Inc.

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09.10.2026

Textile Exchange puts numbers on textile-to-textile recycling capacity for the first time

Editorial relevance: Very high – establishes a global baseline for available spinnable textile-to-textile recycled fiber and quantifies the gap between waste availability and usable output.

Textile Exchange has published a first global methodology for estimating textile-to-textile recycled fiber availability for apparel and home textiles. Developed with Fashion for Good, Reverse Resources and TEXroad, the framework combines available waste volumes with collection, sorting, processing and technology constraints to estimate how much material can actually become spinnable fiber.

The analysis projects recyclable textile feedstocks to increase from roughly 10 million tonnes in 2025 to around 15 million tonnes by 2030. Yet the quantity of recycled spinnable fiber is estimated at only 1–1.5 million tonnes in 2025, rising to approximately 3–5 million tonnes by 2030.

Editorial relevance: Very high – establishes a global baseline for available spinnable textile-to-textile recycled fiber and quantifies the gap between waste availability and usable output.

Textile Exchange has published a first global methodology for estimating textile-to-textile recycled fiber availability for apparel and home textiles. Developed with Fashion for Good, Reverse Resources and TEXroad, the framework combines available waste volumes with collection, sorting, processing and technology constraints to estimate how much material can actually become spinnable fiber.

The analysis projects recyclable textile feedstocks to increase from roughly 10 million tonnes in 2025 to around 15 million tonnes by 2030. Yet the quantity of recycled spinnable fiber is estimated at only 1–1.5 million tonnes in 2025, rising to approximately 3–5 million tonnes by 2030.

The scope covers post-industrial and post-consumer textiles and both mechanical and chemical recycling of cotton, polyester, nylon, manmade cellulosics, wool and and blends.
Textile Exchange stresses that the figures are directional: data quality remains uneven, and future editions are intended to incorporate more primary data from recyclers and suppliers.

 

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Textile Exchange

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