Textiles come in endless variations. Historically, product standardization has been the go-to strategy for companies looking to maintain profits. But with digital technology, imagine smaller lot sizes ...

Trevor Goodwin of Andrews, South Carolina, is using an overhead hook on a motorized track to pick up bulging cloth packages and maneuver them into position. He cuts and tears open the packages, which ...

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 United States has a textile-waste problem. In 2017 more than 11 million tons of fabric wound up in landfills, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Though clothing constitutes the vast ...

Gloria Craven has seen lots of politicians come through North Carolina. Gloria Craven at her home in Eden, North Carolina. Tracey Samuelson/Marketplace “I met John Edwards, Elizabeth Dole come in,” ...

Most of the discussion in sustainable textiles has centered around the fibers–manufacturers making a switch to organic cotton, or creating fabrics from natural, easily-renewable materials like bamboo ...

Walk into a modern semiconductor factory and you’ll see full end-to-end automated processes. Visit an automotive plant and you’ll watch lines weld and paint without a human touch. But walk into a ...

The textile industry is the most famous industry in Egypt since ancient times. It is also the second largest industrial sector in Egypt after the food industry and plays a major role in shaping the ...

Inspired by the traditional Japanese plant dyeing practice of aizome, startup AIZOME Textiles is creating fabrics that use 100% plant-derived colors instead of the synthetic dyes used by virtually all ...