Textile World covers a lot of ground. The magazine and website report on every step in manufacturing textile products: spinning, weaving, dyeing, printing, finishing, cutting and sewing, marketing, distributing…potentially for any product for any business or consumer end use. It’s a big industry to wrap your arms around. Just the apparel portion is a $3-trillion segment globally.
 
Textile service isn’t included in that number—as a service industry, it’s not part of textile manufacturing. And it’s a tiny fraction of territory for this publisher to map. Linen and uniform supply industry sales in 2014, according to the U.S ...