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From key rings and cases to journals and travel pouches … The new LITTLE TRUCKIN’ GOODS don’t just make life easier for their future owners but also for FREITAG’s one-off designers. The small stencils fit in neatly between the big ones that mark out the standard bags, meaning that virtually no tarp gets wasted. It’s always interesting to see what other people that have the same last name as you are doing. Its even more interesting if they are doing something cool, and in my case I can point to some Freitag brothers (Daniel & Markus) that are doing something pretty cool in Switzerland. They are making cool, and artistic bags out of recycled stuff (vinyl truck tarps, seatbelts, and bicycle inner-tubes stocklot vinyl). I like two things about the company, first the bags are made out of recycled materials, and second no two bags the company makes are the same. Since they take vinyl off trucks that often have advertisements on them, you get a different design every time.

Individual recycled freeway bags….. in Europe freight trucks are covered with removable heavy-duty vinyl tarps and stocklot vinyl. They are virtually indestructible and display various colors, logos and different degrees of patina. In 1993 the brothers Freitag, graphic designers by trade, had a bright idea and decided to turn one of these tarps into a proto-type messenger bag. The first bag was slightly crude, mis-shapen and born on their kitchen table, but they loved it anyway and the Freitag Bag was unleashed to the world. From these humble beginnings, the Freitag bag has gained a loyal following with the cogniscenti. Like snowflakes or people, no two bags are alike. Each one displays different degrees of wear, patina, colors, patterning, and if you choose, graphic remnants from the trucks they once served.

By transforming lorry tarpaulins into bags, the Freitag brothers sought to extend a product’s life cycle as much as possible. Twenty years later they decided to launch F-ABRIC, a collection of ready-to-wear clothing that rises to a new challenge: how to provide for the afterlife of a product. Clothing made with F-ABRIC can either be composted or recycled into other products. Even the buttons on F-ABRIC clothes, which can be unscrewed and reused on other garments, embody Freitag’s recycling philosophy. Designing a product from the very outset by taking into account what will happen to it after it has outlived its main function is also a challenge from a designer perspective.

Freitag Bag’s makes more than just Messenger bags, they also make wallets, purses, soccer balls, and even lap top sleeves

Far more than one of those thick books with modern layout and strangely-cropped images (which is what it appears to be on first glance). This book is a great read (even though there is only text on 1 out of 5 pages) and documents in photographs and words how the Freitag bag was developed, adopted by the masses, and used. If you want to see a product and design philosophy that is beyond “green”, this is a good place to start. Smart, very smart.

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Fiberglass roller blind fabric is a great choice if you are after a window covering that is beautiful in its simplicity. This is because they fit very closely to the window frames and do not have a lot of excess fabric. Fiberglass roller blind fabric can also be made with a wide range of a selection of fabrics including translucent fabrics, sunscreen fabrics, and black out fabrics. Of course, the fabrics are available in a range of colors and patterns so you can choose the one that suits your home best to your taste.

Roller blinds have always been popular because of their clever control mechanism which is a continuous chain loop enabling easy and precise upward and downward adjustment. They also have a reputation for understated sophistication, but the continuing popularity of Roller blinds can be fairly attributed to the breakthrough technologyin the fabric component and most recently in the controller system hardware.

Roller blinds can now be made in contemporary textured weaves, smooth minimalist plains, translucent, screen,opaque or blockout fabrics. All of the ‘intelligent’ fabrics we use have superior solar protection and excellent insulating properties.

At Window Treatments our design team has been quick to adapt our Roller blind systems and mechanisms so that the wonderful strengths of these new fabrics can be utilised in extensive home and business applications.

Strong demand is now evident for screen fabrics in the Roller Blind range. Screen fabrics provide light filtering as opposed to light block-out so that the view can be maintained whilst at the same time light control is acheived. Screen fabrics are attractive but also very functional. Stunning Roller blinds are the ultimate in contemporary style and are perfect for controlling heat and glare with the option of maintaining your exterior vista.

Why choose Fiberglass roller blind fabric?

• Roller blinds generally give a modern, trendy and stylish look to enhance the aesthetic beauty of your home.
• Convenient to use, easy to install, maintain and clean. You must use the right fabrics for your blinds. For example, if to be placed in kitchen windows, you need a fabric that would allow some light to pass through so you can enjoy the natural sunlight while spending time in the kitchen.
• Roller blinds are used as insulators or help control glare and temperature inside a room or house. Roller blinds can be placed in many different areas such as homes, schools, clinics, working spaces, etc.

Fiberglass roller blind fabric

• COMPOSTION : 2PIY PLASTICIZED PVC – 1 PIY 100% FIBER GLASS
• DARKINING : 100%
• GRAMMAGE : 480 g/m2 +%
• THICKNESS : 0.36+5%
• TOLERANCE : (+) (-)5% FOR ALL MEASURES
• CLEANING : SOAPY WATER
• APPLICATION : Fiberglass window curtain features self-cleaning, anti-virus anti-bacteria anti-flame anti-fire, anti-mildew and anti-static abilities, smoothness and environmental protection. Self-cleaning window curtain is an innovative product in textile industry. It has become one of the rising interior decoration fabrics and the majority of it has been exported abroad and widely used in high-end hotels, offices buildings and living quarters.

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Fibreglass fabric for solar protection

Duletai New Material in fibreglass fabrics offers quality and lasting solutions for solar protection, tensile structures, and acoustics correction for both business and residential buildings. With designs developed for both exterior and interior fittings, you can create the ideal environment for work or pleasure. Solar protection using fibreglass fabric blinds offers high levels of protection while maintaining the level of natural, incoming light for optimal visual and thermal comfort. Whether you need maximum transparency or transluent to blackout blinds, you have a choice of fabric to meet your needs.The fibreglass fabric range of blinds, roof shade structures, office space partitions and fittings are developed using fabrics of woven fibreglass yarns with a coating that ensures all prodcuts provide durable tensile strength, resistance to bad weather and offer both dimensional and colour stability.

Fibreglass fabric: a lasting solution for managing your environment

Fibreglass fabrics come with a safety and quality guarantee. Dedicated to the highest quality, fiberglass fabrics are lead-free, meet international standards for fire safety, low emissions of dangerous substances and fully comply with the “Blinds Performance Requirements for external and internal blinds.

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Window curtain fabric has many different types to chose from. When considering for which will work best for your project. Color, openness factor, PVC vs. non-PVC coated, and single color vs. duplex are some decisions to be made. One of the choices is material composition: polyester or fiberglass base fabric. Each window curtain fabric has its own advantages and provides an excellent result, but there are some pros and cons to consider when chosing the suitable material for your applications.

WINDOW CURTAIN FABRIC STRENGTH AND DURABILITY

It is real that polyester base fabric have a higher strength rating than fiberglass, it is also true for fiberglass is, in same weight, it’s stronger than steel. So, both polyester and fiberglass fabrics are qualified for most window curtain projects. However, polyester can be affected by heat. It loses its dimensional stability and stretches under high temperatures, while fiberglass is far more stable , it will stay unaffected because of the glass fiber’s high melting point.

KEEPING ON TRACK

Both materials can sometimes mis-track—also known as telescoping or not running exactly square with the roller. Polyester fabric are straight and so are somewhat less prone to tracking issues than fiberglass with its twisted yarns. In either case, this problem can be solved by placing a piece of high quality gaffer tape about 1” wide on the exposed roller (where the fabric will cover it) on the side that you want the fabric drawn toward.

EASY TO CLEAN

Because these yarns are coated, both types are equally cleanable. Duletai New material’s window curtain fabric may be cleaned at the window by vacuuming with a soft brush attachment. Most may also be cleaned by using a sponge or soft cloth and mild solution of warm soapy water. A dishwashing liquid, such as Ivory liquid, is recommended. Some uncoated fabrics are exceptions, and must be cleaned with a dry art sponge, but that is the same whether fiberglass, polyester, or a blend.

DON’T BE FRAYED

Polyester Fabric with Fraying

Fiberglass fabric with Fraying

Although modern cutting techniques that reduce frayed edges, any time a fabric is cut—whatever the method—there is a small possibility of fraying after some time in the field, depending on the applications of the material. In the event there is some fraying, repairs can be made on polyester by careful use of heat/flame to melt the frayed pieces away. For fiberglass window curtain fabric, if fraying does occur, scissors can be used to trim the fabric.

SILM MEANS EVERYTING

Because fiberglass base fabric is thinner, those shade fabrics have been touted as having better glare control, improved view-through characteristics, and more uniform coating ability. The big payoff: thinner yarns also leads to lighter materials, so larger shades can be made because the diameter of the bundle is not as great. In addition, fewer materials need to go into the manufacturing of the operating mechanism, fascia, and other hardware, saving material cost and resources. The smaller product and hardware also presents a cleaner and slimmer profile at the window. In recent years, thinner polyester yarns have been developed so these advantages are no longer exclusive to fiberglass fabrics. As a general rule, fiberglass fabrics are thinner.

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Ambient lighting we can observe the planet. In normal lighting, the hours of our lifestyles are washed as soon as of our breathing to the ultimate sigh. Think underneath the sunlight of your absolute best times; even the numerous bulbs which have lit the journey through each one of these years, or the comfortable traditional light of candles and firesides. Towards the quality of our lives, it’s led so much of all of the phenomena within this excellent world. That’s, if you don’t want to obtain an image that is great on any movie display—then that is big it’s simply too awful brilliant. Once more, the adage shows proper that “you might have an excessive amount of a thing.” that is good.

The word “light rejecting screens , has become from cleaning out a image area of the AV business nomenclature like a display function that stops normal lighting. You will find AV purists available who dislike the term “rejecting”’s use and, officially, they are correct. ALR displays really do rejecting—they’s alternative possibly move normal lighting from the area of perspective or absorb.

Why state ALR?

Merely, “ambient lighting rejecting” provides clients a simple psychological picture of the display that eliminates its effect and normal lighting. Besides , reflectivity of lighting places inside an matrix to offset the invasive ramifications of inundation onto estimated images” is an excessive amount of every advertising group, and a mouthful available hated it. And, lighting absorbent” that is “ambient seems like anything your home floor cleans with.

What’s Normal Lighting?
Normal lighting is any illumination that arises from an supply of luminance that may be inside, exterior, normally or artificially happening to AV contractors. Fundamentally, it’s any source of light apart from your projector that intends to clean your picture out or else hinder its visual appearance. Including but isn’t restricted to light arriving through skylights and windows from exterior, monitor lighting, in-wall/ bulbs roof lights, candles and sometimes even the light of your movie display highlighting off light colored areas inside your space.

A undoctored picture of an ambient light rejecting screens (ALR) display for action.
It’s astonishing It’s astonishing but-true: light-colored surfaces, roofs and floor all may subscribe to normal lighting issues and adversely affect your movie performance. While your display bounces off, every area inside your space becomes right into a possible reflector that’ll consequently subscribe to cleaning out the good characteristics of your image. Therefore yes, viewing Imagination Island attacks in an area covered with bright marble surfaces and dressing like Mr. Roarke, alabaster walls along with a whitewashed limit is not even close to well suited for obtaining the greatest from the projection screen. The next time, believe Knight Rider.

“Rejecting” Ambient Lighting?
The underside line is the fact that many areas don’t have 100% control over illumination. As awesome like a completely included home entertainment space is, many homes simply don’t ask them to. Alternatively, houses are currently trending toward having big projection displays in multiple- dens use living spaces, and press rooms as a way of changing your family TV having a largerthanlife +100-inch display. This really is completely possible so long as you consider the actions that are required to counter normal light’s effects.

To some extent, a better projector helps. The additional illumination drowns out of the milky-white glare of space illumination that is indirect, however it does bring withit an adverse impact aswell. Around you will want vibrant, picture that is vibrant, you don’t want to buy also bright or your distinction suffers. An exceptionally vivid display may also trigger distress and eye-fatigue, therefore there is a far more useful answer essential. As a substitute to some better projector light, the ALR niche projection display can be considered by you.

ALR displays are available in two fundamental platforms: “retro reflective” or “angular reflective.” Based on the Regulation of Representation, “…the event ray, the reflected ray, and also the regular towards the area of the mirror all lie-in exactly the same airplane and also the position of reflection is add up to the position of incidence.” ALR areas might not completely respond prior to Regulations of Representation simply because they include their very own factors, that are possibly microstructures or multiple-split visual filters. Bright projector displays that are regular have anything named “diffusion uniformity,” meaning they spread the lighting that is estimated to supply standard lighting within the projection angle’s complete 180 quantities. Nevertheless, it scatters all the estimated signal—so large degrees of normal lighting may wash the picture on the regular bright display out.

Angular Reflective
Angular reflective implies that lighting displays off the top at exactly the reverse position of occurrence, just as the plan below demonstrates and as the regulations of representation explain.

This kind of display may be the favored design for industrial programs but can also be broadly favored by residential programs aswell. From happening to supply better control within the washout ramifications of normal lighting the substance stops complete diffusion. The reflectivity that is concentrated benefits audiences having a vibrant projected picture that defines an excellent color-temperature. In the same period, off- light is diverted from the selection of notion that was obvious. The numerous levels of diffusion content of the display more eliminate the washout ramifications of normal lighting while additionally improving dark ranges for sharp picture quality.

Retro-Reflective
Retro-reflective implies that the substance may replicate the picture immediate towards the source of light back. Efficiency ranges for retro-reflective displays are therefore outstanding this structure is usually the entire favorite of home entertainment enthusiasts although this limits the choices for projector positioning.

A retro-reflective ALR light rejecting screens basically absorbs ambient lighting from the viewer’s area of perspective (as shown above). The display does this in the shape of a microstructure design that is active. In Language, which means that the particular reflective area of the display continues to be organized right down to a tiny degree while absorbing nearly all other light to be able to replicate the estimated picture straight into the area of perspective.

Whenever a cross section of the energetic retro-reflective substance is seen, it’s exposed the reflective area really includes a serriform or “saw-tooth” microstructure (demonstrated at right). This framework functions like a channel to focus the projector’s immediate lighting in a simplified position of representation that’s relatively a “pie that is little -slice” of diffusion uniformity’s 180° lighting. At nighttime saw tooth structures observed in the image, indirect lighting is possibly consumed in the same period or else terminated out from the diffusion levels.

With retro- materials, lighting from the projector should strike the substance in-direct positioning using the degree middle that was screen’s without having to be off by greater than a 5 degree position. Any straight off- angle of projection more than that’ll be shown off at a position that is extreme that it’ll not come right into vision’s field.

You Need To Enjoy ALR Displays
The ALR light rejecting screens of today’s allow the audience to increase even ISF Certified Shade Temperature.in some supplies and the results of optimum distinction. It improves lighting while blocking out normal lighting to produce a practical picture which allows 4K information to become valued in its entire beauty using the lamps off or on. Shade is more defined, and also the sharpness and picture quality of high res (UHD and 4K) information is more defined. With no huge effect on projected image-quality, ALR displays provide the chance for large, impactful pictures for contemporary lifestyles.