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Last week, the Swedish School of Textiles launched a new hub for sustainable textile production – the Swedish Textile Machine Expo.

Swedish hemp could replace fibreglass insulation or oil-based textiles in cars. “By using industrial hemp, we can actually earn money for something that would otherwise be thrown away, and t...

What is the most suitable place for production and how do you get the most sustainable supply chain? What factors influence these decisions? These are questions ...

Vincent Nierstrasz, Professor of Textile Materials Technology at the Swedish School of Textiles, has been appointed new Vice-President of AUTEX, the Association...

What would you do if your manager values the rigidity of the instruction manual over innovation? Maybe you’d just grin and bear it, or maybe you'd move 4500 miles away and become a professor? For Rudrajeet Pal, the ...

Lindex is investing in Spacerpad, the sustainable menstrual sanitary pad developed by researchers at the Swedish School of Textiles at the University of Borås. This innovation is now leaving the world of academia and moving i...

With a number of national and international projects in textile management, and recognised as an expert by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and the World Ban...

In a world where information and data abound, fashion and textile companies face a new kind of challenge. Is AI technology a solution? If so, how can the industry use it?

Ecological, social, and economic sustainability is the common denominator for the research projects that are being awarded research grants this year by Sparbanksstiftelsen Sjuhärad.

Long-term pain is perhaps the single most important factor that reduces quality of life for older people. New technology based on therapeutic smart textiles can make it easier to manage pain. ...

A garment that perceives the environment, translates it to a special language, and communicates the information to the user with vibrations: that is the fantastic result of the resea...

The lack of clean drinking water and the release of toxic wastewater into the environment are some of our biggest global problems. At the same time, the purification process is often complicated, expensiv...

What do objects that express the artistic research process look like? This is what the exhibition DRAFTS is about; it shows that which is "imperfect" or "unfinished" by highlighting research artefacts. T...

When it comes to design, we usually focus on the clothes we wear to enable different kinds of movement. Significant potential still exists when it comes to exploring how the body and movements...

European higher education in textiles and fashion is now better equipped to meet the demands of markets and society. A unique EU collaboration, in which the Swedish School of Textiles i...