When the programmers of KNITWEAR LAB teamed up with 3D software specialists, a completely new idea for more sustainable, cost-efficient and design-oriented pattern development and knitwear production emerged.

Bye bye, plastic! The long-term goal is to be able to replace virgin polyester as a raw material.

Simultaneously, they are eager to explore avenues for improving the customer journey, sustainability aspects, sourcing or design. It entails broadening their scope of responsibilities and possibilities.

This extremely thin, elastic and tear-resistant membrane, also called gold beater's skin, was used in the past as a separating layer when beating gold leaf.

What if the leftovers of freshly squeezed juice were not disposed of - but a new material could be created from it?

Designer Birke Weber and biochemist Friederike Hoberg are exploring the potential of alternative dyes - specifically, from mushrooms.

A world in which everything is becoming faster, more networked and more digital creates endless possibilities. But why always strive for the new instead of continuing the traditional?

Nature as 3D printer: Material designer and underwater photographer Zena Holloway creates shapes and forms from wheatgrass roots growing in self-carved molds made from beeswax.

Hair creates identity - we dye and style it, create new looks and expressions and thus assign ourselves to cultural or social groups. They lose their meaning and become garbage to be disposed of.

The name says it all: "Choub" means "wood" in Farsi - the material that designer Mehdi Mashayekhi draws on in his Choub project, using innovative methods to create something new:

Various developments can be seen - Very interesting and inspiring at the same time: Newcomers are faced with the decision to join the industry or create their own.

Global jeans manufacturer Saitex is going vertical as it officially announces the opening of its first denim fabric making
mill in Vietnam.

The shape-shifting, highly innovative soft robotic textiles from MotorSkins support muscles in movement without electronics...

With her project 'The Healing Imprint', Laura Deschl found a way to explore the therapeutic potential of knitted garments...

High-technology yarns Sunkolor woven into innovative textiles manage to make dangerous UV rays visible by changing its colour...

Seok Park points out the potential materiality of leftovers from textile production by using them to upgrade garments...