The term textile design is applied to describe the discipline that focuses on the development of products for the textile industry, such as fibers, threads and textile fabrics with specific properties and characteristics, in order to meet the needs diverse human resources, such as the case of obtaining inputs for the development of other products, an example of this are the products used in the fields of clothing manufacture and decoration. In the same way, textile design is related to technical textiles, a specialty in which specialized fabrics are developed for various fields, such as medicine, architecture, engineering and sports, etc.
It is no secret to anyone the fact that the textile industry is one of the sectors most important economy globally, and not just because everything it produces is consumed in mass by the public and traders, but In addition to this, the enormous amount of direct employment that it generates around the world, and also indirectly in those industries that go hand in hand such as clothing, spinning, dyeing, haute couture and weaving, for just name a few cases.
The precedent of the industrial revolution was a pivotal moment for the development of the textile industry. Among the most notable events that contributed to its expansion can be mentioned the invention of the flying shuttle, which was created in 1733 by John Kay and whose purpose was to facilitate the weaving of cotton garments in large quantities and at high speeds. higher than you could imagine at the time. At that time, cotton was imported from India and it was really difficult to maintain the high demand for it with the aforementioned imports that were made and which could not cover it. It is important to note that at the same timeOther neighboring areas such as coloring, bleaching and printing began to develop.
