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Bedding & towelling

Curt Bauer (Germany) Long Life Basics was founded in 1882 in Berlin, Germany. Since its establishment, the brand of “Long Life Basics” has boasted a brilliant noble character. Long Life Basics, with a heritage of more than one hundred years, affects the worldwide bedding industry as a world-leading bedding brand.

Home Sweet Home (Turkey) This Turkish exhibitor will display a wide range of products including digital printed rugs, carpets, cushions, bedspread sets, duvet cover sets, blankets, piques, digital printed 3D wall frames, table cloths, runners, napkins, placemats, towels, bathrobes, bathmats, bath slippers and curtains. Around 90% of the products shown at the fair are newly released to the market. In their experience in the Chinese market, they report that consumers are now looking for value added items instead of standard products, and that design and workmanship have priority.

Traumina (Germany) Their brand new silk collection Oriental Blue will be presented for the first time at Intertextile Shanghai. It comprises the finest jacquard made of 100% Brazilian silk in combination with premium selected Siberian goose down. The extra lightweight jacquard is exclusively made by Traumina in Italy. The company explains that in Asia quality comes first nowadays. The need for top quality, outstanding materials and a brand consumers can believe in is now paramount.

Carpets & rugs

Abbas Nishaburi (Iran) This debut exhibitor will be bringing classic and tribal Persian carpets and rugs, with a special emphasis on nomadic rugs which are a kind of Persian carpets. Due to their rarity and high skills required to make them, they are relatively rare in the Chinese market to date.

Aviva Enterprise (Pakistan) They will be bringing a huge variety of handmade carpets and rugs in unique patterns to the fair. The company states that they’ve had huge demand in China for large sized carpets due to the strength of the construction sector.

Shiv Shakti Exports (India) Shiv Shakti Exports will showcase carpets, accent rugs, bathmats, poufs, baskets and pillows at the fair. These products are all handmade and with unique designs. Handmade products are popular in China now the company reports, with increasing interest at recent trade fairs for their products.

Digital printing

HP (China) HP will display their green printing technology of Puwei textile at the fair that was developed on the basis of HP Latex printing technology. Unlike other digital printing technologies, this process is easier and greener. The overwhelming majority of textile fabrics can be used with this printing technology. The company reports that the technology has been met with amazement when introduced at previous fairs, and is sure to have the same effect at Intertextile Shanghai.

Editors   Designers Guild (UK) There have been a number of enduring themes over the years at Designers Guild. This autumn we focus more on the fresco decoration beloved of Renaissance Italy combined with the floral compositions of the Pre Raphaelite artists. Our Caprifoglio collections this season relate this story through unsentimental florals, at once graceful and full of discovery. Often hand-painted flowers are set against subtle frescos, the distressed plaster of a walled garden, or liberating open skies.     JAB Anstoetz (Germany) JAB specialises in offering total interior solutions. This year they will bring various products from their newest ranges to the fair including carpets, fabrics, wallcoverings, floorings and furniture. They report that Chinese buyers pay more attention to design and colour rather than the materials used, and generally prefer European style rather than a contemporary look.

LaCanTouch Design Center (France) This year, LaCanTouch will display a number of brands. The Jean-Paul Gaultier and Sonia Rykiel products are a result of cross-border cooperation with these fashion gurus. The Casadeco series has a bright and fresh style and can provide a complete effect in overall space matching. The Flordelis series is a perfect fit of classical and neoclassical styles. The Luciano Marcato series integrates classic culture with modern weaving technology. And lastly, the Koninck series features flannelette which is supplied to the Dutch royal family.

Prestigious (UK) Founded in 1988, Prestigious Textiles offers a diverse range of concepts, colourways and designs across a portfolio which includes fabrics for drapes and upholstery together with wallcoverings and home décor accessories. Today, the company reaches out to a customer base stretching across the world, with trading alliances in 110 countries and partner businesses in Ireland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa and China.

Upholstery fabrics

Dream Fly (Italy) Dream Fly will exhibit a range of draperys, wallcoverings and sheers at this year’s fair. The brands they will be exhibiting include FIORETE, PARA, SCAGLIONI and Mastrotto.

Sekers & Wemyss (UK) Sekers has 40 years’ experience in designing, manufacturing and supplying the highest quality contract fabrics and wall coverings to the international hospitality, corporate and marine markets. Their Sekers brand is suitable for hospitality projects, while the Wemyss brand features residential products.

Trevira (Germany) Trevira as a polyester fibre and yarn manufacturer does not show its own products, but fabrics made from these by its customers. The brand Trevira CS stands for high-value flame retardant furnishing textiles for contract and residential applications. Besides the inherent functions like flame retardant, easy-care and hard-wearing properties, the vast variety of designs, patterns, colours and qualities from light sheers up to heavy upholstery fabrics offers the designer unlimited possibilities to translate innovative concepts into reality.

Wallcoverings

Uniwal (China) Uniwal will showcase the new season Old Fashion (OF series) upholstery fabrics and wallpaper in the exhibition, designed by the CEO of Beijing Easy-Home Interior Design, Uniwal Chief wallpaper product designer, Dai Kun. This season's wallpaper also asked the United States York factory for processing, York itself is the largest wallpaper factory. This corporation will fully integrated manufacturers design and powerful advantage in the production process.

Lezai (China) Lezai are returning to the fair again after the success they had in 2014, and will showcase their collections of silk, linen, natural-material and hand-made wallpaper.