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The fashion industry might not be the first that comes to mind as a superuser of fossil fuels. But modern textiles rely heavily on petrochemical products that come from many of the same oil and gas ...

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The global fashion industry employs millions of people and is worth trillions of dollars. It also accounts for 10% of global carbon emissions and creates pollution and waste: in the US, just 15% of ...

Textile apparel is considered a second skin for people, primarily offering essential protection functions 1. Additionally, textile garments reflect personal aesthetic preferences. In the recent decade ...

Fibre art has long been a subversive medium. A new show at the Barbican unravels its power to reflect on everything from giving birth to racial oppression Once seen as a creative backwater thanks to ...

Producing functional fabrics that perform all the functions we want, while retaining the characteristics of fabric we’re accustomed to is no easy task. Two groups of researchers at Drexel University — ...

For over a decade, investment and expectations have been funnelled into textile-to-textile recycling, with a groundswell of emerging technologies promising to turn fashion’s trash back into treasure.

The world's first commercial-scale textile recycling mill is a milestone in tackling fashion's colossal waste problem. On the Swedish coast of the Baltic Sea, in the city of Sundsvall – home to the ...

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 ...

Coated in a conductive polymer material, this half-inch square of fabric contains an array of six rectangular solar cells. Photo by Jeff Miller/UW-Madison For years, fabric designer Marianne Fairbanks ...