ChangeMakers Eunice Olumide – Creating Sustainability in Fashion and Textiles

Cotton is a versatile and widely-used natural fiber that is cultivated from the cotton plant. It is used to make fabric for clothing and textile products like towels and handkerchiefs. Cotton by-products, such as linters and cotton seed...

Engineers are joining forces with designers, scientists and doctors at Drexel University to produce new biomedical textiles, and the resulting smart clothes are not only fashionably functional, but could also be life savers. With support...

Consumerism in the U.S. has reached an all-time high. In 2017, we spent $240 billion on goods such as jewelry, watches, luggage, books, and phones—twice as much as in 2002, even though our population grew by only 13 percent during that...

Welcome back to the FLUCTUS channel for a discussion about how artisans in Vietnam are making high-priced, eco-friendly textiles from lotus plants. Fluctus is a website and YouTube channel dedicated to sea geeks. Whenever you are curious...

What if you could wear something that would alert you when pollution, such as smog, is about to take its toll on your heart or lungs? That is what's ""in the air"" at the National Science Foundation-(NSF) supported Nanosystems...

The Renewal Workshop, a client of OMEP (the MEP Center in Oregon and part of the MEP National Network), is the leading provider of circular solutions for apparel and textile brands. They are organized around the idea that businesses have...

Of course, the ancient Egyptians were probably not the first people to ever wear clothing, but we haven’t found any clothes older than the Tarkhan Dress. So how can we figure out when we first started wearing clothes? Well, it turns out...

Consider the classic white t-shirt. Annually, we sell and buy 2 billion t-shirts globally, making it one of the most common garments in the world. But how and where is the average t-shirt made, and what's its environmental impact? Angel...

This video highlights the environmental impact of fast fashion, with over 92 million tons of textiles discarded annually. It emphasizes the problems caused by cheap, mass-produced clothing, including waste, pollution, and...

New biomedical textiles show potential of smart, human-centered service systems



Description: Engineers are joining forces with designers, scientists and doctors at Drexel University to produce new biomedical...

We visit Fritz Haeg at his home and studio in Los Angeles and receive the assignment to make a rag rug! But not just any rag rug--one that you make over time and do something on.

Knowing the do’s and don’ts of washing your clothes can be difficult, but chemistry has got your back. With a quick lesson in textile chemistry, you’ll be able to understand the different fabrics that make up your clothes. This week on...

That new shirt you want is SUPREMELY BAD for planet Earth. What's the actual price of fashion? Watch more: “Should You Really Be In a Relationship Forever?” ►►pSubscribeoutube.com/watch?v=b0YJIV9-mNE&t=1merchtarget='_blank'...

A beautiful film made by Curator Richard Blurton about the Vrindavani Vastra, a 17th-century silk textile richly woven with images and texts telling stories of the incarnations of the Hindu god Vishnu, and the life of Krishna – one of...

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