As a vertical mill, Draper offers all the typical commission services including: non-woven stitch bonding, blending, carding, knitting, stock dye, piece dye, coating, heat setting, napping, dolly washing, padding, inspection and roll up. Draper maintains over 40 knitting machines, knitting an unlimited amount of fabric design options, and offering CAD services, dyeing, and extensive finishing capa
bilities. The company specializes in knitted high pile fabrics, jerseys, napped fleece, interlock, rib, terry cloth and nonwovens for fashion, performance, industrial and safety applications. Draper Knitting Custom Fabric Design:
With over 50 years of design experience, Draper helps to bring design ideas to life. Using its expertise, along with customer ideas, Draper creates fabrics with aesthetic or performance qualities, designing fabrics to meet its clients’ needs and specifications. Using CAD (computer-aided design), Draper can convert JPEGs into custom designed high pile jacquard fabrics. Draper Knitting Production Capabilities:
High pile sliver knitting, Conventional circular knitting, and Nonwoven stitchbonded fabrics for a variety of products. Other commission services:
Blending/Picking - Whether blending bales of the same fiber, or doing an intimate blend of different fibers in smaller percentages for the ultimate performance quality, Draper has both sample and large production capabilities. Carding – Draper maintains STX card machines for carding both coarse and fine fibers
Fabric NappingFabric Napping
Laminated Pile Fabic
Cut & Sew / Project Management – For customers looking for “whole packages”, Draper can produce the fabric, coordinate lamination, cut-and-sew, and packaging, depending on customer needs. Dyeing – Draper maintains both sample kettles and production kettles, allowing color matching or developing colors for both start-up programs and those that grow into large production orders. Piece-dye capabilities
Stock-dye capabilities
Lab Testing - Although not a certified testing lab, Draper provides ASTM and AATCC tests on fabrics, based on customers’ requests. Draper can "pre-test" fabrics, so customers are assured that a fabric will pass a certified lab test. Napping – Draper can create a range of surface characteristics in circular knit fabrics (both tubular and open width) and sliver knit fabrics. Padding/Finishings/Coatings
Anti-microbial
Anti-pilling
Coating applications in various weights, depending on end-use or specifications
Dolly washing
DWR
FR finishing
Heat-setting
Shearing - Draper can shear many different fibers from wool and polyester to cut-resistant blends containing Nomex®, Kevlar® or Celliant®. Equipped with three complete shear lines, Draper can shear anything, from high-pile paint rollers and buffing pads to very low-pile applications. Shipping – Draper can ship large and small, international or domestic shipments for any size customer anywhere in the world. Shipping includes final inspection, slitting, roll up and shipping. Draper can accommodate different sizes cores, slit various width options, work with multiple rolls, and monitor/record bow and skew of jacquard patterns at roll up.
