N C Spinning Mills Inc

Founded in 1939, Hickory Throwing Company serves the knitting and weaving industry. The company specializes in performance yarns for hosiery, including lambswool, merino wool, wool blends in natural and colors. It also offers Isolwool, Isolfil and neofil filament polypropylene colors. In addition, Hickory Throwing Company stocks Tilsa 1/18 dyed high-bulk acrylic colors. The company offers a variety of specialty yarns, including Alpaca, Cashmere and Mohair. Hickory Throwing Company offers ecofriendly yarns in bleach white and a range of colors and counts.

For more than 50 years, Patrick Yarn Mill Inc. has been providing industrial yarns. Located in Kings Mountain, N.C., the company provides upholstery, wall panel fabrics, engineered yarns, bandages, nylon yarns, filtration, mops, blankets, carpeting, fleece yarns, apparel, sewing threads and glove yarns. Its green and recycled products include bamboo yarns, milk protein fibers and flax yarns. Patrick Yarn Mill Inc. has partnerships with the National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) and Odell Corp. It caters to commercial, retail, health care and filtration industries.

Dobby, lightweight twills, broadcloths, piques, sateens and poplins are some of patterns taking shape out of the air-jet and rapier looms at Inman Mills. The company manufactures woven cotton, polyester, poly/cotton and various blended greige goods. Its fabrics are used for draperies, upholstery, home furnishings, lycra, outdoor furniture, pocketing, jeans, caps, career wear and fire-resistant woven and knitted products. Inman Mills operates its Saybrook plants in Inman and Ramey, S. C., and its Mountain Shoals plant in Enoree, S.C. Headquartered in Inman, the company has sales representatives in South Carolina, New York and California. James A. Chapman founded the company in 1902.