CEO, Colin Spencer Halsey. © The Natural Fibre Company

Cornwall based spinning mill achieves carbon reduction accreditation

Launceston, Cornwall The Natural Fibre Company, a specialist woollen mill in Launceston, Cornwall has recently achieved Carbon Reduction accreditation, as part of the Carbon AAA initiative. The South-west based business is passionate about helping its customers...
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Dress transforms into a jumper to help save environment

Nottingham, United Kingdom Nottingham Trent University student’s prototype can be worn as a maxi dress, a midi dress or as a jumper. A dress which transforms into a jumper has been created by a fashion design...
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Datacolor introduces subscription service for desktop software

Lawrenceville, NJ, USA Datacolor, a leader in colour management solutions, has announced the release of its annual subscription payment program, now available for its colour formulation software products Datacolor Match Textile and Match Pigment, as...
More than 300 different materials are available to brands in 30 countries worldwide. © Tengiva

Funding for digital supply chain platform

Modernising the complex and outdated months-long sourcing and distribution process. Tengiva, the Montreal-based developer of a new digital supply chain platform for the textile industry, has raised C$4.95 million in seed funding. Textile production is a...
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2022 Woolmark Prize winners announced

Saul Nash and MMUSOMAXWELL win this year’s top fashion industry awards. Designer Saul Nash has been announced the winner of the 2022 International Woolmark Prize at a special event held in London this week. MMUSOMAXWELL...
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Collaboration takes competition from runway to rails

Hong Kong Designers’ REVIVAL collection for The R Collective demonstrates Redress’ decades-long work to educate fashion designers about sustainable design. Five alumni of the Redress Design Award, the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition organised by...
The beta launch took place in April 2021, quickly followed by an access request in August and open access for automated onboarding with credit card integrations in December 2021. © Byborre

Byborre Create to further disrupt textiles industry

Amsterdam Dutch textile innovation studio releases advanced software update with many new features. After two years of onboarding hundreds of brands and designers, textile innovation platform Byborre is accelerating digital transformation through its online design tool...
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First transparent and traceable cotton supply chain

Research Triangle Park, NC, USA BASF’s e3 Sustainable Cotton program joins UN hosted Conscious Fashion and Lifestyle Network. Fashion and agriculture may seem like two industries that are miles apart, but BASF’s e3 Sustainable Cotton program...
Trefuss Farm, Tasmania. © Campaign for Wool

Why wool matters

United Kingdom A short documentary produced with HRH The Prince of Wales for the Campaign for Wool. Against a background of misleading anti wool lobbying currently orchestrated by global giants of fast fashion, the Campaign for...
Ingredient collage with MIRUM and Clarus materials. © Natural Fiber Welding

Summit explores material innovators’ scale-up journeys

Online  Review of the recently held Sustainable Alternative and Bio-Based Materials Digital Summit. Following on from last year’s Sustainable Alternative and Bio-Based Materials summit, which showcased an extensive range of material innovations, this year’s event caught...