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AATCC announces 2024 student chapter award winners
May 3, 2024
…the chapter, such as movie nights, vision board making and other social activities. She started an Instagram page for the chapter as a recruitment tool to let more students know…
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Danish art studio makes, exhibits bio-based materials
May 1, 2024
…of sculptural stools created by Natural Material Studio for New York Design Week in November 2021. Image: Natural Material Studio/Ananda Ferreira The studio also makes B-Foam using a protein-based biopolymer…
Fun-filled felt furniture made from factory remnants
March 1, 2024
…pieces are hand-assembled by Stackabl staff. Stackabl designs were first launched in 2021. This lighting is by Wisse Trooster. Image: Stackabl/© Patrick Biller for Maison Gerard The inaugural Stackabl collection…
Amy Bircher appointed to advisory committee by President Biden
February 26, 2024
…the visiting committee at WVU. Most recently, she pledged $200,000 to her alma mater for the development of a new textile lab, which opened on April 17, 2021, and is…
Women entrepreneurs use bras in women’s health initiatives
February 1, 2024
…the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. Speaking at a TED Talk in 2021, founder Alicia Chong Rodriguez told the audience that women…
Materials from public art display upcycled for Olympic tents
January 1, 2024
…installed to secure and contour the fabric, Paris, Sept. 13, 2021. The project required 9,843 feet of red polypropylene rope. Image: © 2021 Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation/Lubri It was created…
Andrea Lynn on how shade sails have kept her creative
October 1, 2023
…maker and an engineer to create TERRASHADE®, which debuted in 2021. TERRASHADE is a patent-pending, freestanding, semiportable, temporary shade product engineered to withstand 45 mph winds. It can be attached…
AATCC 2023 Future Leaders Award Recipients
August 29, 2023
…of Henkel since 2021, where he has supported and developed multiple methods for product performance assessment and technology screening. Much of this method development work involves transferring and adapting textile…
Circular footwear
July 25, 2023
…shoes are dumped into landfill each year. It’s time for change. Available here.*WRAP (2019) Valuing our Clothes. Available here.*Material Innovation Initiative (2021). 2021 State of the Industry Report: Next-Gen Materials. Available here….
Is it the end of polyester (as we know it)?
July 1, 2023
…in our apparel, home furnishings, automotive, filtration and personal care industries. In 2021, they represented 57.57% of the global fiber market, according to Fibre2Fashion’s market insight tool TexPro. Yet the…