Stretch Textiles is a new brand for interior fabrics from the Dutch company Innofa.
Stretch Textiles is a collection of knitted fabrics, made of wool. A natural and durable fiber which makes it possible to create beautiful and strong fabrics, meeting the specific requirements for both the home and contract market. The fabrics are designed, developed and produced by Innofa so we control the processes and the distribution ourselves. All fabrics are on stock and available from one meter.
Stretch Textiles are distinctive because of the knitted construction which results in a natural stretch. Knitting also makes it possible to create fabrics with three dimensional and tactual structures.
Stretch Textiles wants to feed the world with new, inspiring textiles. Textiles with a story. We would love to tell you this story …
History
1922 George Dröge becomes owner of N.V. Wollenstoffenfabriek George Dröge, a traditional wool weaving factory in Tilburg, city known for its textile industries.
1950 George's son Rolf joins the company. As a result of changes in the interior and fashion industries, the demand for knitwear and different types of yarns is growing. George Dröge starts circular knitting.
1970 Rolf Dröge experiments with interior and technical textiles in terrycloth and stretch. This results in the successful development of a knitted stretch mattress ticking for Auping.
1980 As a result of the developments of the last decade, Rolf Dröge founds a new company. The company that follows up the N.V. Wollenstoffenfabriek George Dröge is named Innofa, which is a combination of the first letters of Innovated Fabrics.
1991 The next generation of the Dröge family takes over Innofa. Since 1991 the company is run by its current managers Job and Rogier, sons of Rolf Dröge.
2002 Innofa moves to a new state of the art building with a total surface of 12.500 m2. It is the most modern production facility of knitted fabrics in western Europe, with its own design-, finishing- and quality control departments.
2003 The increased export to the United States results in a need for a local production unit. On October 14th of 2003 the American knitting production facility of Innofa opens officially in Reidsville (North Carolina).
2008 Innofa introduces a new brand of furniture fabrics Stretch Textiles and is until today still one of the most innovative textile manufacturer in Europe.