Fibrevolution is working to bring the flax industry back to Oregon.
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Food and Fibers
Maggie Pate of NÅDE Studio uses food and fiber as inspiration for her textile arts.
A show at the Textile Center in Minneapolis brings women artists and chefs together to use textile arts as a lens for looking at food.
Lucila Kenny is an Argentinean textile designer based in Amsterdam, where she creates natural dyes and teaches workshops.
Sheep shearing is a craft that requires mastery. A look at what it takes to get wool from sheep to shelf.
Farmer Franny Tacy, farmer and owner of Franny’s Farm in Leicester, North Carolina, stands in her hemp field in August 2017. (Image courtesy of Hemp Industries Association) In 2016 alone, the U.S. imported an estimated $500 million in products made […]
Reusable coffee filters grown, milled and sewn in the U.S.
Growing up in The Canary Islands, my brother and I loved making excursions and exploring nature. In these adventure-filled days, we would remove a silver part of the local cacti. We did not know what this “attachment” to the cacti […]
Innovative designers are thinking about waste as a resource.
Marie Hoff is a fiber producer in Northern California, and an advocate for regionally produced, climate beneficial wool.
Cattle farmer and textile designer Izzi Rainey, 25, grew up on Bates Moor Farm on the outskirts of Foulsham, near Fakenham in Norfolk, where her father Graham has bred cattle since 1989. At the age of six, she won the […]
Things to think about when you’re shopping.
An interview with Nina and Sonya Montenegro, authors of the new zine “The Mender’s Companion.”
How one company is using coffee waste in performance textiles.
How waste can be a resource.
Fibershed and The North Face highlight the positive potential of regenerative agriculture and fashion.
Synthetic clothing is contributing to the mounting issue of microplastics in the ocean, affecting our food chain.
Chiara Vigo’s family has been collecting Byssus, or sea silk, one of the most coveted materials in the world for more than 1,000 years in the same matrilineal family tree. As you might expect in a fast paced world, Vigo’s […]
In its second season, New York Textile Month put on by Parsons School of Design and Lidewij Edelkoort is a month-long city-wide festival designed to celebrate textile creativity and promote textile awareness. Initiated by Lidewij Edelkoort, trend forecaster and Dean of […]
Forbes caught up with Sarah Bellos, founder of Stony Creek Colors who is “convincing farmers who used to grow tobacco to switch to indigo plants and selling the natural blue dye to fabric producers, including denim giant Cone Mills. The […]
Bedhead Fiber uses naturally sourced items like plants, flowers, mushrooms, lichen, and bugs to create lush, vibrant colors on US grown and milled fibers.
I’ve been working with Sarah Kelley of The Island Foundation and Karen Schwalbe of SEMAP to start a new fibershed as part of Rebecca Burgess’ Fibershed network. Our Fibershed, comprised of both Massachusetts and Rhode Island, is called the Southeastern […]
Nettles offer enormous potential for textiles.
We live in a wasteful society. Across industries, our mass consumer culture has also created a culture of massive waste. It is estimated that globally, we waste upwards of one-third of the food produced for human consumption. And even if […]
Summer is the best time for really embracing and preparing the bounty of locally grown fruits and veggies so we’ve got a challenge for you, for all of July and August, show us your food and your fibers! We know […]
For young farmers in the West, drought is the new norm.
Wild Harvest: Alaska is a short film featuring Kathy Hattori of Botanical Colors, a company dedicated to natural dyeing.
Based out of Cordova, Alaska, Drifters Fish brings customers wild Copper River Salmon straight from the fishermen.
The Food and Fibers Project aims to highlight the intersection of what we eat and what we wear.
Laura Sansone is a textile designer, activist, and consultant based in the Hudson Valley in New York. She is the creator of Textile Lab, an organization that promotes environmentally responsible textile methods, and regional systems of production. Textile Lab brings […]
At first glance, food and fashion may have very little to do with each other, except that maybe green kale drinks are all the rage at fashion week. But peel back the layers, and there are many intersects between the two worlds that make food and fashion have a lot in common.
Eric Henry is that friend or colleague that you want to call you. That you know will always have something exciting to share so you pick up immediately. As the President of TS Designs in Burlington, North Carolina, Eric has […]
Consider a t-shirt, unlike produce, it doesn’t grow straight from the ground, but the cotton has to be grown. Just as we have producers to thank for the food on our table, we have female farmers who grow fibers to thank for our clothing and who are advancing sustainable textile production.
Harvesting Liberty is a short film by Patagonia made to address the current status of industrial hemp in the U.S. Directed by farmer/surfer/environmentalist Dan Malloy and produced in partnership with Fibershed and The Growing Warriors Project.
This interview is part of a series focused on female farmers in the United States and based on the feature 9 Female Farmers Changing the Fashion Industry on the Brooklyn Fashion+Design Accelerator.
The concept of carbon farming in fashion has made waves in the food movement with a big opportunity to completely realign the politics of agricultural and environmental policy.
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