When artist Jeanne Akita wants to create a jacket, she has to start by making an “enormous, gigantic” jacket, she says. As in, 8 feet long and almost 8 feet wide. But as the garment goes through an ...

A new chemical process separates mixed textile waste and produces components that can be reused (Sci. Adv. 2024, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado6827). After their lifetime of use, most discarded clothes ...

The new technique can help break mixed-fiber clothing back down into feedstock for future textiles. Less than 1% of clothing is recycled, and most of the rest ends up dumped in a landfill or burned. A ...

Colorful printed pattern of abstract flowers and swirls on a textile. High-resolution color patterns can be printed directly onto cotton using pigment inks rather than dyes to reduce the use of water ...

The Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery is more than a window for students to peek into on their way to a class in the School of Human Ecology. It’s a bridge between textiles and students across the ...

Untreated cotton fabric absorbs water droplets (top) and cotton fabric treated with a form of cottonseed oil repels water (bottom). WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2025 — More than half of the 7.5 million bales ...

The meticulous resist-dyeing method called shibori originated in ancient Japan and has been trending in global fashion and interior design for several years now—spotted on rising UK fashion star Ulla ...

From the fashion and textile heritage in Banana Island, Lagos, to the “Excavated Periwinkle” Nembe People of Niger Delta, the maiden edition of “Telling Textile Tales” conference sought to interrogate ...