FABRICSIGHT BACKSTORY BEGAN WITH THE DREAMS OF FOUNDER ANDREA RAUMER
Andrea, grew up in Italy in a textile entrepreneur's family. After working years in yarn product development, he started as sales manager for main European Markets (Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Holland). In 2005, Andrea moved to Spain and developed Spanish and Portuguese markets for WGSN (World trends forecaster leader). After leaving WGSN, he moved to a Portuguese textile company that produced fabrics and garments. He was assigned to develop an exportation department. Andrea decided to pursue his dream and start constructing a digital fabric sourcing and e-commerce that will disrupt, modernize and make the textile industry sourcing process more sustainable. In 2014 Andrea Launched the site sewwand.com, the first online fabric trade show, letting European textile professionals sourcing fabrics among thousands of fabric references from over 150 European manufacturers. At the beginning of 2019, Andrea created FabricSight.com, enhancing his dream, and creating an e-commerce, focused on small/medium brands, startups, ateliers, and professional creatives. FabricSight is revolutionizing the digital sourcing process in the industry, helping professionals who cannot travel in the new global environment/situation to find the best solution for each collection.