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LiveSmart Performance fabric covers seats in UNC Smith Center

February 1st, 2022

Every one of the 10,000 lower mezzanine seats at UNC Chapel HIll’s Dean Smith Center were re-covered with stain-resistant fabric. Photos: Culp. When UNC Chapel Hill Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham, mentioned that it bothered him to see how dirty the seats were in the university’s Dean Smith Center, Iv Culp, president and CEO of Culp, […]

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The balancing act of textile treatments

June 1st, 2021

The pandemic changed consumer lifestyles, with people working, exercising and eating at home. Those new habits translate into higher demand for stain resistance and other performance features in home textiles. Photo: © Alexey Rumyantsev, Dreamstime.com Fueled by consumer demand, textile treatments are evolving to provide an ever-growing array of performance benefits. This development has also […]

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