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Gildan Unveils RecordBreaking T-Shirt Most PoPular ImpressIons Web articles MoSt Saved 1. Off the Cuff: Who Really Owns Artwork, Screens and Digitizing? Part 2 of 2 2. Off the Cuff: Who Really Owns Artwork, Screens and Digitizing? Part 1 of 2 3. Basics for Training Embroidery Operators: Part 1 of 2 4. Trend Update: Teen Apparel Decoration 5. How to Fix Embroidery Realignment Problems Gildan’s Guinness World Record-breaking T-shirt measured 180.9' x 281.3'. It was unrolled by about 100 volunteers at the CMA’s 40th Music Festival this past June. MoSt Printed 1. Off the Cuff: Who Really Owns Artwork, Screens and Digitizing? Part 2 of 2 2. Basics for Training Embroidery Operators: Part 1 of 2 3. Off the Cuff: Who Really Owns Artwork, Screens and Digitizing? Part 1 of 2 4. How to Fix Embroidery Realignment Problems 5. How to Assess Correct Color Order Gildan Activewear, St. Michael, Barbados, unveiled a Guinness World Recordbreaking T-shirt on June 11 at the Country Music Association’s 40th Music Festival in Nashville, Tenn. Recording artist Danny Gokey helped present the 180.9' x 281.3' shirt. “We regularly profess we’re the largest T-shirt factory in the world, so it made sense that we would try to break the world record,” says Garry Bell, vice president of marketing, wholesale division, Gildan. The company also partnered with Nashville charity Keep the Music Playing, using the fabric needed to make this T-shirt to create 12,000 shirts to donate to the organization. This initiative aligns with Gildan’s charitable goals, Bell says. Gildan approached the record-breaking shirt in the same way it makes any Tshirt. “We followed a very similar logistics route, only bigger,” Bell says. “We started with American cotton — in this case, an awful lot of it.” The cotton was turned into yarn at facilities in North Carolina and Georgia. The yarn then traveled to facilities in Honduras to be transformed into knit fabric. That fabric was shipped to Utah, where it was assembled into panels and sewn together. Once finished, the T-shirt made its final trip to Nashville on a flatbed trailer, to be unrolled by about 100 volunteers for final measurement by Guinness officials at Centennial Park. For more information, visit gildan.com. — Sam Calvert Embroidery Innovator Tajima Passes Away Ikuo Tajima, advisor and past president of the Tokai Industrial Sewing Machine Co. Ltd., manufacturer of well-known Tajima embroidery equipment, passed away June 13 due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 81 years old. Tajima worked in a variety of capacities at the company his father founded. He and his brother, Akira Tajima, helped their father build the company in the ensuing years after the war. Upon his father’s death in 1960, Ikuo Tajima became president of the company and in 1964 developed the first multihead embroidery machine in Japan. This machine automated what had previously been a manual operation and helped embroidery grow into a thriving, independent industry. Tajima built a plant in Ushiyama-cho, Kasugai, Japan, in 1979, while consecutively developing the world’s first multihead chain-stitch electronic handle embroidery machine and the lock-stitch electronic handle embroidery machine. He served as director of the Aichi Prefecture Commercial Cooperative Federation of MoSt e-MaiLed 1. Off the Cuff: Who Really Owns Artwork, Screens and Digitizing? Part 1 of 2 2. Why Your Shop Needs to Make a Buck a Minute 3. Basics for Training Embroidery Operators: Part 1 of 2 4. How to Assess Correct Color Order 5. Off the Cuff: Who Really Owns Artwork, Screens and Digitizing? Part 2 of 2 to read any of these articles, visit impressionsmag.com. Find the Search box at the top of the page and input the article title (in full or in part) — in quotation marks — and hit enter on your keyboard or click the blue circle next to the Search box. Industrial Sewing Machines since the organization’s inception, and was chairman of the board from 1991 to 2001. “From his never-ending spirit of exploration and passion, all of us at Tokai absorbed precious knowledge from him,” says Hitoshi Tajima, chairman and representative director, Tokai Industrial Sewing Machine Co. Ltd. “We were sometimes scolded, but we were always made the wiser, thanks to his kindness and warm consideration. We will never hear his words again, and I cannot fully express how much we miss him.” For more information, visit hic.us. — J.L. impressionsmag.com 10 Impressions >> August/September 2011 http://www.gildan.com http://www.impressionsmag.com http://www.hic.us http://www.impressionsmag.com

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Impressions - August/september 2011
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The Beauty of Bling
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Impressions - August/September 2011