Six months ago, when Precision Textiles put a toe in the water to try its hand at producing personal protective equipment (PPE), the strategy was designed to keep its plant open and employees working.

Sudō Reiko and Nuno, Vitrine (photo courtesy the Center for Hertiage Arts & Textile Hong Kong) Growing up in a small country town in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, Sudō Reiko always looked forward to the ...

Accelerating Circularity launched Textile-to-Textile Circularity Foundations, a two-day in-person workshop focused on ...

Earlier this year, MIT researchers unveiled a line of “smart clothes” that are able to track your every physical movement. Literally. Now, in an unrelated research effort, scientists at Fudan ...

Experts discussed the challenges at the Textiles Recycling Expo in Charlotte, N.C.

If you’re like me, you struggle with how to get rid of the clothes in the back of your closet you no longer wear. I try to donate items to the nearest thrift store to give them another life. However, ...

Cotton accounts for one third of fiber consumption in the textile industry, according to a 2013 global apparel fiber consumption report. However, the crop’s production requires intense labor and uses ...

A new approach to smart textiles could lead to a host of new use cases and a level of durability that might make the technology much more attractive to adopt. A team led by John Volakis, director of ...