TAPING TECH.

Hi There, 👋🏻 i’m Andrea a fashion graphic designer focused on fashion product design for menswear and sportswear. Through this blog I want to share highlights and tips from the field i work in. Hope you enjoy and feel free to get in touch!

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Tape technology 👁‍🗨

One of the most interesting processes of last years used in the fashion and sports design is the heat sealing of the garment, used not just as a production element but also as a decorative and recognizable feature.

This kind of technology arises above all from the Outdoor world as an internal "construction" technique of the garment to further reinforce the seams and make the garment 100% resistant and waterproof.

The tapes used for the production were thick and resistant, sometimes even multilayer to ensure an extreme and long-lasting seal.

Goretex 3Layer JKT - Monobi Tech Blazer

With research and development, tapes become lighter, while maintaining their characteristics of tenacity and resistance, so as to begin to be used also on the outside of the garment, as purely creative and decorative elements.

Arc'teryx jacket - Nike light running JKT

The real revolution come with the colors where tapes becomes a creative and recognizable element also for the consumer..

From here, countless possibilities of use opened up as poured, reflective, multicolored, printed, transparent or even coupled tapes with other fabrics.

Framis - Sensitive collaboration

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Suppliers 🏭

We have selected some IT supplier that produce Polyurethane TAPE:

• Framis: Framis

• Fait Plast: FaitPlast

• Eurojersey x Framis: Collaboration (Sensitive Fabrics bonded on Framis Tape)