A complimentary one-hour CEU course so area designers can stay up-to-date with industry tools, trends, products and best practices.  Open to design professionals. Located in Mary’s Café.

Course Description: The evolution of performance textiles for residential use has been rapid and expansive. Design professionals seeking to specify these fabrics to add value and longevity to their projects need to keep abreast of new innovations in the technology.

• Learn how consumer lifestyle shifts and resulting demand patterns led to development of advanced residential and indoor-specific decorative textiles

• Learn how distinguishing fiber types and dye methods used in textile manufacturing and knowing their inherent characteristics

leads to value-adds in residential specification

• Understand performance fabrics as a smart-home tech adoption: applying the Diffusion of Innovation principle, examining consumer demand for invisible tech, intuitive and friendly things, longevity, solution-forward and time-saving home products

• Review current performance textile industry sustainability practices and learn how to identify best practices before specifying

• See the future-cast for performance with dramatic experimental tech innovations aimed at reducing the environmental impact of textile farming and manufacturing

Sponsored by the Dixon Family Foundation and the Amy L. Scott Family Foundation

Pre-registration is required.