School canopy on high

July 1, 2026  |  Features

This open-air play area is located on a third-floor terrace at the KIPP charter school in New York City’s Bronx, Kingsbridge Heights neighborhood. Its grounding is defined by the six-story brick buildings that surround this space and the virtually transparent mesh overhead. The building is used as…
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2026 State of the textile industry report

July 1, 2026  |  Features

Last year, we were wondering how tariffs would affect the U.S. economy and the domestic portion of the global textile industry, as the rates seemed to change daily at the time the Advanced Textiles Association (ATA) annual industry survey was being conducted in the spring. Inflation thus wound up be…
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Fabric canopy aids environmental protection efforts

July 1, 2026  |  Features

A canopy roughly the size of a blue whale’s torso is part of an apparatus in Newport Beach, Calif., helping to protect marine wildlife. The equipment is a trash interceptor, moored in San Diego Creek, where it removes trash and debris from the riverbed before it enters an environmentally sensitiv…
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Why SOPs are the missing link in company growth

July 1, 2026  |  Business

Chaos can often be mistaken for capability. Theability to pivot quickly, solve problems on the fly and “make it work” under pressure is what many of us built our businesses on.
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Climate-friendly manufacturing

July 1, 2026  |  Markets

Textiles have typically been an industry with high energy consumption. In some circumstances, it can be highly labor-intensive, depending on the level of modernization. A February 2026 report from the European Environment Agency notes that textile consumption in 2020 in the European Union had the th…
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Artist Tomislav Topic features colorful mesh textiles

July 1, 2026  |  Projects

When Berlin, Germany-based artist Tomislav Topic needed a fast, on-budget solution for a large art installation at a festival in 2014, inspiration came during a trip to the hardware store.
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