Borre Akkersdijk, co-founder of Dutch textile innovation studio and clothing label Byborre, was drawn to the textile industry because it was one of the few sectors that had yet to be truly modernised.

In the aftermath of the 2010 Haitian earthquake, various neoliberal strategies have been advanced to help in short-term disaster mitigation and reconstruction, as well as more long-term improvements ...

For a stretch of approximately a century and a half, from the middle of the 1800s to the end of the 1900s, the garment industry was New York’s largest manufacturing industry. New York made more ...

Fabric must be cut before it can be turned into something else, and [fiercekittenz] shows how a laser cutter can hit all the right bases to save a lot of time on the process. She demonstrates ...

Science continues to advance smart fabrics that respond to environmental changes, and provide more ‘services’ to their wearers. Now, a team of international researchers has created a wearable textile ...

If you work with Kevlar, carbon fiber or other high performance reinforcement materials, you know what’s going on in the supply chain. Materials are more expensive and difficult to obtain that ever ...

As the demand for fabric has declined in the domestic as well as international market, the textile processing units are bearing a deserted look. Roughly 90% of textile process houses in Gujarat are ...

Thanks to an intelligent review system, Keqiao, a district in Shaoxing, East China's Zhejiang province, has seen a significant decline in copyright disputes over fabric patterns in the past three ...