NEDGRAPHICS
NEDGRAPHICS SOFTWARE
NedGraphics™ is the leading provider of textile design and CAD / CAM software solutions for the apparel, home furnishings, flooring, and other textile markets.
Our mission is to empower the world of design and textiles with innovative software solutions. We are dedicated to merging creativity with technology, offering our clients tools that not only streamline their workflows but also promote sustainable practices. Committed to expanding the horizons of innovation, we provide resources that not only optimize creative endeavors but also inspire new possibilities.
NedGraphics provides dedicated tools for print, woven, and knitted fabric design, carpet and tuft, color management and calibration, virtual product visualization, storyboard presentation, merchandising, and more. The portfolio also includes a collection of professional textile and apparel design plug-ins for Adobe® Illustrator® & Photoshop®, named ‘NedGraphics for Adobe®’.
Paris, France – August 2026 – Optitex and NedGraphics will present their integrated design and manufacturing solutions at Première Vision Paris, taking place from 1st to 3rd September 2026 at Parc des Expositions, Paris Nord Villepinte, France.
Visitors can find the companies at Booth 3L11 in Hall 3, Smart Creation Area.
The joint appearance marks a significant opportunity for textile brands and manufacturers to experience first-hand how NedGraphics and Optitex deliver a unified workflow — one that connects textile design, colour refinement, and end product development within a single, seamless process.
New York - July 2026 NedGraphics, a leading provider of textile and print design software today features NedGraphics Design for Photoshop, a purpose-built plugin that brings specialist print and pattern workflows directly into Adobe Photoshop.
The solution targets one of the industry's most persistent pain points: the hours lost to manual workarounds when completing routine design tasks.
NedGraphics, a leading provider of textile design software, announced that NedGraphics is rapidly integrating artificial intelligence across its design workflow.
Rather than offering AI as a separate tool, the company is embedding it as a native capability designed to work the way designers think.
The announcement reflects a wider shift within the textile industry, where AI is no longer a distant prospect but an active force reshaping how collections are created.
Optitex and NedGraphics have appointed James McDermott as Regional Sales Director Europe, a promotion that strengthens the support, guidance, and value delivered to customers across the region.
The appointment recognizes his consistent success helping organizations improve operational efficiency, strengthen collaboration across product development teams, reduce production bottlenecks, and accelerate speed-to-market.
New York – NY – May 2026 – Optitex, a leading provider of end-to-end 2D and 3D CAD/CAM software, has announced a powerful integration with NedGraphics to create a comprehensive digital ecosystem.
This unified workflow bridges the critical gap between textile design and physical production, allowing the fashion, automotive, and home textile industries to maintain absolute accuracy from initial concept to the final product.
By eliminating information loss and reconciliation gaps, the partnership empowers businesses to accelerate production without compromising their creative vision or environmental responsibilities.
New York - May 2026 – NedGraphics Software has announced the release of its 2026.1 update, introducing a highly advanced Jacquard 3D Viewer designed to transform the textile design workflow.
Available immediately, this latest software iteration allows professionals to visualise intricate jacquard patterns by showcasing full repeat simulations alongside single tile views.
By delivering unprecedented digital clarity, NedGraphics empowers creators to validate their complete woven designs accurately, addressing the industry-wide need for greater manufacturing efficiency and reduced material waste.
The Exhibition presentation will highlight coordinated textile design, pattern development, and manufacturing preparation workflows for modern textile product teams
New York, USA – April 2026 ─ Optitex and NedGraphics will participate in Texprocess 2026, taking place April 21–24, 2026 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, where the companies will present how textile design, pattern development, and manufacturing preparation can operate together within a connected workflow.
Visitors can meet the teams in Hall 8, Booth D38.
New York - March 2026 – NedGraphics, a leading innovator in design software, has today announced the rollout of its enhanced Storyboard and Cataloguing solution for the modern home textile industry.
The software empowers designers to curate ideas, align colours, and build collections with unprecedented clarity, addressing the industry's urgent need for streamlined, resource-efficient creative workflows
New York City, USA – 17 March 2026 – Optitex today announced the availability of Optitex O/26, a forward-thinking software release engineered to strengthen digital patternmaking and production preparation processes.
As the industry faces urgent demands for greater efficiency and reduced waste, this measured evolution of the Optitex suite reinforces daily production workflows through improved automation, clarity, and consistency across product development and manufacturing environments.
In 2026, the global creative community pauses together in a rare and meaningful way. With the selection of PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer as the Color of the Year, Pantone offers more than a hue. It offers a philosophy.
As Pantone describes it, “An ethereal white hue, PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer serves as a symbol of calming influence in a frenetic society rediscovering the value of measured consideration and quiet reflection.” In a world defined by acceleration and visual noise, this choice feels deeply human. It signals a collective desire to breathe, to reset, and to create with intention.
For textile designers working across apparel, fashion, home textiles, and rugs, this moment carries particular resonance. Textiles live closest to the body and the home
FRANKFURT, Germany – January 12th 2026 – NedGraphics Software, a leader in textile design solutions, has announced its participation in the upcoming Heimtextil 2026 exhibition.
Situated in Hall 6.1 at Booth F48, the company prepares to unveil a new chapter in the industry where craft meets code, inviting attendees to explore how hybrid creativity, digital intelligence, and human intuition are converging to shape the future of textile design.
Eindhoven – December 2025 – NedGraphics Software, a global leader in textile design solutions, today announced its upcoming participation in Heimtextil 2026, the premier international trade fair for home and contract textiles.
From January 13 to 16, the company will welcome designers, creators, and industry visionaries to Hall 6.1, Booth F48, to present a forward-thinking vision for the next chapter of digital design.
Eindhoven December 2025 – NedGraphics and Optitex have announced the appointment of Sinem Suder Niemeyer as the first Regional Sales Director for Asia and Africa.
This new leadership position signifies a deep commitment from the companies to invest in these key regions, fostering stronger customer connections and driving growth within the global textile and apparel industries.
With over 25 years of international experience in sales, sourcing, and digital transformation, Sinem brings a unique blend of technical expertise and customer-centric leadership.
Her extensive background living and working across continents has equipped her with a profound understanding of bridging diverse markets and cultures.
Eindhoven, Netherlands – November 2025 – NedGraphics, a leader in textile design software, has highlighted NEDRecolor, a new cloud-based tool now available for its Design Portfolio clients.
This latest innovation is set to transform the way designers create, collaborate, and bring their visions to life by integrating powerful recolouring capabilities directly within a web browser.
NEDRecolor enhances the creative workflow by allowing users to send TIFF files from Easy Coloring Premium directly to the new cloud platform.
Optitex and NedGraphics proudly hosted West Coast Weave, an exclusive networking mixer at the historic Cardinal’s Quarters at Redbird in Los Angeles on October 23.
The event brought together apparel and textile industry professionals for an evening celebrating creativity, innovation, and collaboration in digital design.
New York City, USA – October 15, 2025 – NedGraphics, a global leader in textile and apparel design software, today announced the official launch of NedGraphics 2026, a groundbreaking software release that introduces artificial intelligence, immersive 3D simulation, and intelligent file management to textile design and production workflows.
Colour Is Too Important to Leave to Chance
Print will always be the part of the garment people see first.
But the sum of all parts — the fabric, the trims, the fasteners, the finish — is what determines whether a design actually delivers on its promise. Brands that continue to treat colour as a single creative decision, rather than a coordinated technical discipline spanning their entire supply chain, will keep paying for it in re-dips, delays, and disappointed design teams.
A Century of Textiles, and an Ever-changing World
Few companies can trace their roots back more than a century and still count themselves among their industry's innovators. Texia, headquartered in Monistrol de Montserrat, Spain, is one of them.
But the story of Texia is not simply one of longevity.
It is a story of continual reinvention. As the textile industry has grown more global and competitive, Texia has repeatedly reshaped its business, investing in technology, developing its own brands, and placing sustainability at the centre of its mission. In doing so, it offers a compelling example of how a heritage manufacturer can lead rather than follow through a period of profound industry change. Image Credit: Texia
What are we craving Ultimately?
The instinct to slow down while simultaneously optimising every measurable aspect of life isn't a passing curiosity. It's a structural response to a world that feels increasingly unstable, and it's reshaping what people expect from their homes, hotels, workplaces and healthcare environments alike.
For the design and manufacturing sectors, this means rethinking both product and process.
The Structual Shift is Real and its Already Here
Volumes are moving east, where digital production is accelerating rapidly. Consumer behaviour has shifted.
Demand is now driven by personalisation, shorter buying cycles, and an expectation of near-instant responsiveness. Regulatory pressure is intensifying, with supply chain transparency now a legal and commercial fact in many markets. And margins? They are under sustained, structural pressure.
This is not a temporary disruption. It is a fundamental reordering of how textile manufacturing must operate.
The Challenge: Standing Firm as the Industry Shifts
The wallpaper landscape has changed dramatically. Digital printing has lowered the barrier to entry, spawning countless direct-to-consumer brands and pushing much of the market towards faster, cheaper production.
At the same time, manufacturing in the UK has grown steadily harder - rising minimum wage, national insurance, energy and substrate costs all bear down on margins. Surface Print have embraced all of these challenges - and stand resolutely prepared for the future.
From Helsinki's printing mill to Paris's Le Marais, discover how Marimekko is scaling a design-led brand with purpose, craft, and bold innovation.
But what makes Marimekko's story compelling is not just its aesthetic legacy?
The word "toxic" carries weight. It conjures danger, harm, and things best avoided.
“Yet in the textile industry - Where between 3,000 and 10,000 chemicals move through the supply chain, a reflexive fear of the term is one of our biggest obstacles to progress.”
This article distils the key takeaways and what buyers, designers, and brands should be asking right now.
What Is the Digital Product Passport?
At its core, a Digital Product Passport is a digital record attached to a physical product - For a printed textile product, this means the DPP would capture data on the substrate, inks and dyes used, the printing process and technology, chemical compliance, environmental impact (including water and energy use), supply chain traceability, and end-of-life instructions.
The Market Gap that Changed Everything
Future Fashion was founded in 2019, timed deliberately to coincide with a pivotal moment in global textile technology: the commercial launch of the EFI Reggiani BOLT Single-Pass digital printing system.
The founders recognised that single-pass architecture had fundamentally changed what was industrially possible - and that Pakistan's domestic market had yet to catch up.
Print is no longer defined by the inefficiencies that once characterised it…as advances in production processes and technology have significantly improved its environmental performance.
Taran Rai, Corporate Sustainability Manager at Epson explains why?
The story of what happens when young designers access digital technology is still being written.
What once was a theoretical sustainability goal seems to have shifted into an active regulatory reality.
Is the Textile Market Finally Recovering?
After a difficult few years, there are genuine reasons for optimism. Duncan was candid about the challenges: "The market for textiles has been very difficult over the last three years. I'm not going to hide the truth there. But the tide is turning.“
A profound shift is currently reshaping the sector
Changing consumer expectations demand greater design diversity, faster turnaround times, and sustainable manufacturing practices.
To thrive, interior brands must adapt their supply chains, bringing production closer to the end consumer and moving away from bulk manufacturing.
Digital textile printing offers a definitive solution to these operational bottlenecks.
Digital transformation doesn't announce itself.
It accumulates - one innovation at a time - until an entire industry looks back and realises the ground has shifted beneath its feet. That's precisely where textiles stands today.
The conversations happening now about AI, automation, sustainability, and digital product passports are not theoretical. They are shaping decisions being made on factory floors and in boardrooms right now.
“By leveraging advanced digital textile printing, Marylene Madou has successfully merged traditional craftsmanship with cutting-edge technology. Her approach offers a blueprint for how independent designers can scale their brands globally while maintaining a minimal environmental footprint.”
The textile industry is undergoing a vital transformation. As the insights from Techtextil and Texprocess reveal, the path forward relies on a combination of sustainable hardware, intelligent chemistry, and seamless digital workflows.
From Zimmer's industrial-scale energy reductions and Stratasys's on-demand 3D embellishments, to Kornit's single-step technical printing and the unified digital ecosystems of NedGraphics and Optitex, the tools for change are here. To stay competitive, brands and manufacturers must adopt these innovations, moving away from fragmented, wasteful processes towards a truly connected, circular economy.
Friedmans stands as a testament to the power of combining traditional textile knowledge with forward-thinking innovation.
“Operating from their UK headquarters, Friedmans now serves a diverse array of sectors, including swimwear, dance, entertainment, sportswear, interior decor, prosthetics, and even pet apparel. With a strategic supply chain that reliably serves clients worldwide”
The apparel decoration industry is decisively moving away from isolated, analogue production tools toward connected digital manufacturing environments.
"Kornit’s unwavering commitment to transformative technology continues to disrupt the status quo. For business leaders and innovators ready to capture the future of apparel manufacturing, the path forward is clear”
The Urgent Need for Sustainability at Scale
The transformation at Coats provides a vital blueprint for the wider textile and apparel sector. True sustainability cannot be achieved in silos. As Dearing emphasised:
“Cross-industry collaboration is the engine of meaningful change. Brands, machinery suppliers, chemical providers, and fibre producers must act as an interconnected ecosystem”
Today’s customers demand superior product quality, real-time data visibility, and lightning-fast turnaround times.
For large-scale garment decorators, managing these expectations while balancing seasonal demand fluctuations - such as the massive surges seen during Black Friday - presents a monumental challenge.
"Relying on transactional vendor relationships and outdated legacy equipment is no longer sufficient to secure long-term stability and growth.”
Printing method is never a secondary detail. It shapes the entire life cycle of a product, from concept to customer. In today’s fashion industry, where margins are tighter and speed matters more than ever, technical knowledge has become a competitive advantage.
“The future of textile design belongs to professionals who can combine creativity with execution, aesthetics with practicality, and vision with production reality”.