Our eLearning programs provide powerful learning tools for companies to train employees in Textile Fundamentals and Textile Testing. In addition to being self-paced, allowing for maximum flexibility, these online courses feature numerous videos and animations that provide rare access into the inner workings of textile machinery and processing. To learn more about our eLearning Programs, please visit our eLearning site.
ZTE’s Tim Pleasants, manager of the Rieter Spinning Lab at NC State’s College of Textiles, often receives requests to develop yarns for customers. So when Laurie Gonyea approached him about producing a yarn with a cotton-silver blend, Tim was up for the challenge. After working through several prototypes, they were able to develop a yarn with all the properties Laurie needed – softness, strength, and the benefit of pure silver. Laurie’s first goal was to produce skeins of yarn for home knitters to craft into gloves. These gloves have the ability to be conductive due to the silver, meaning they can be used to direct touchscreen electronics. Laurie’s yarn sold out rapidly, and several kickstarted campaigns and production runs later, she’s been featured in the Washington Post, and more recently in a podcast on Woolful.com, where she credited Tim and his spinning lab as being a key part of her success. You can see a recap and listen to the full podcast here.
Zeis Textile Extension for Economic Development, known familiarly as Zeis Textile Extension or ZTE, provides training and certification in textiles and Lean Six Sigma, and serves the textile industry’s prototyping and pilot production needs in its five laboratories – spun yarn, knitting, weaving, dyeing and finishing, and physical testing.
