About Textile Insight

Textile Insight is a Formula4Media business publication providing trends, insight and analysis on textile design, innovations and its exciting product applications.

Textile Insight is a Formula4Media publication designed to exclusively serve active lifestyle apparel, intimate apparel, swimwear, and footwear manufacturers, as well as the top retailers who are focused on the design and development of their private label collections.

For advertising information, contact Publisher Jeff Nott at
516-305-4711; jnott@formula4media.com


Textile Insight magazine is published bi-monthly during key buying and product development cycles and includes trend analysis, technology insights, designer interviews, sourcing and much more.

Brought to you by the most experienced journalists in textiles.

Emily Walzer, Managing Editor
Emily has been reporting on the performance textile business for over 20 years, and has written extensively on emerging fabric trends within the industy and covered new fiber technologies relating to all segments of the active arena.

Karla S. Magruder, Contributing Editor
Karla has been in the textile industry for over 25 years with global experience ranging from fibers through finished garments She has worked previously with companies such as Asics Tiger, Burlington Industries and Cargill Dow. Karla is also the President of Fabrikology International, a textile consulting firm specializing in education and marketing of innovative technologies and sustainable fibers.

S. Gray Maycumber, Contributing Editor
Gray has been a textile writer and editor for over 32 years, including 25 years with DNR as managing editor of the Textile Department and senior editor and columnist. Prior to that, he was the editor of Modern Textiles and Modern Knitting Management.