Weekday positions start at $27/hr + health benefits and include opportunities for promotion!

We have openings across all departments and will train you if you don't have textile experience.

* Interested in a mix of weekday and weekend work? Simply apply and we'll figure it out during your interview.*

What we do

For yarn manufacture, we transform raw cotton into both ring spun and vintage rotor yarns.

This is not the type of yarn that home crafters use to make sweaters or that cats chase around a room...

Our yarn is the key building block for all apparel and home furnishings.

It is the key to what you wear, what you sleep in, and what you dry off with.

Carding & Opening

These operators run the machinery that opens, blends, cleans, and prepares the cotton for spinning. Cotton is preselected and precisely scheduled so that the "blend" has uniformity and makes strong, durable yarn that can be dyed and woven into denim and other fabrics.

Spinn

ing

Spinners take the prepared cotton and form it into either 'ring soup' or vintage rotor yarn. When the cotton leaves Carding and Opening, it looks like a very fluffy cotton rope that is then spun and given a twist for strength, forming the yarn that goes into Vidalia's denim, as well as other technically demanding applications.

Shuttle Weav

ing

Weaving is where the yarn is transformed into denim by way of a loom. Working the loom feeds a single filing yarn laterally across thousands of vertically-aligned strands to lock the yarns into place. This forms denim.

Vidalia is the proud home of the last 45 Draper Shuttle Looms. The denim from these looms has unique characteristics in terms of look and feel and is highly sought after by denim aficionados around the world.

Draper denim (a.k.a. selvedge denim) goes into jeans that can retail anywhere from $200-$400 per pair.

Picanol Weav

ing

Vidalia also has some of the newest and most technically-precise weaving equipment in North America, which is used to make performance denim with special stretch and other characteristics. This denim is used by premium brands in jeans which retail for $100 and up.

After weaving, denim is 'finished" which means that it's brushed, singed, passed through a wet bath, torque adjusted, and dried. The shrinkage of the cotton is controlled so that it meets or even exceeds industry standards.

Dyesmith

ing

Work on a unique continuous range of equipment where Denim is taken from raw to finished form with that color that you know and love.