Listen 7 min MORE Sean Zahedi stands next to one of his knitting machines at Lafayette Textiles in Vernon. “My father used to have his own dye house. But because of rising labor costs, environmental regulations and water, it moved to Nicaragua,” he says. Photo by Benjamin Gottlieb.
Sean Zahedi grew up in his father’s textile factory in Vernon, playing in the rows of finished fabric as a young boy. He remembers when Lafayette Textiles had some 200 employees spinning yarn, monitoring knitting machines and dyeing clothing.
But when he came back to work for his father in this 55,000 square foot factory about four years ago, he found a smaller operation on the verge of closing down.
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