Cambodia’s $7 billion garment sector - the country’s largest employer with 800,000, mostly female, workers - was dealt a double blow this year by the coronavirus pandemic and by European Union (EU) tariffs imposed over human rights abuses. Updated: Dec 18, 2020, 08:21 IST By Reuters...Read More

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Nov 2 (ANI/PRNewswire): Ranked No. 1 in this year's Hot Button Ranking, Birla Cellulose of Aditya Birla Group has been accorded a 'dark green shirt' by the Canada-based environmental not-for-profit Canopy Planet Society in the latest Hot Button Report...Read More

When there's business to be done over long distances, you don't want to depend on a scribe. VIRGINIA POSTREL | 12.1.2020 8:01 AM One of the many interesting scholars I met while researching The Fabric of Civilization was Cécile Michele, a French Assyriologist who has translated...Read More

More than 1,000 exhibitors planned Home Textiles Today Staff December 2, 2020 Istanbul – Evteks 2021 will open under “return to normal” criteria determined by the Turkish government and UFI (the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry). The Istanbul...Read More

Edited By: Ritesh K Srivastava Updated: Nov 26, 2020, 20:29 PM IST The advanced fabrics can be used for future requirement of the parachute and bulletproof jackets as well. New Delhi: Seeking to replace Chinese and other foreign clothing used for making military uniforms in the country,...Read More

TNN Updated Nov 8, 2020, 1007 IST SURAT: Traditionally famed as the world’s largest man-made fabric (MMF) manufacturing hub, Surat is gradually shifting towards processing cotton fabric, something that is considered to be a forte of weavers in Bhiwandi in Maharashtra and Erode in Tamil...Read More

By Beth Ranson -October 19, 2020. The 8th of October 2020 was World Circular Textiles Day, an event marked with a webinar to introduce the collective vision of achieving full circularity by 2050. In celebration of the diverse group of people involved in developing this ambitions goal, the event...Read More

Gowri Shankar has produced ‘Weganool’ fibre from a dryland weed and organic cotton and has trademarked the innovation. The fashion industry has been looking for animal-free alternatives to wool for some time now. Bamboo, hemp, banana, coconut waste… they’ve tried it all....Read More

Scientists replicated the self-cleaning, anti-reflective nanocoating found in the insect's eyes. Vladivostok, Russia – Russian and Swiss scientists have learned how to replicate a nanocoating with antimicrobial, anti-reflective and self-cleaning properties — based on the...Read More

Luminescent textiles can be created by using a bioluminescent reaction system. This is something that Sweta Iyer, with her newly-minted doctorate, has established. Her doctoral thesis in the field of Textile Technology at the University of Borås can now be useful in a number of different...Read More