News
17 February 2026
3D DutchMerino from Summer School soon to be in Zuiderzee Museum
The results of the NewTexEco 3D Summer School Knitting 2025 will have a special sequel: the garments developed during the week will be on display at the Zuiderzee Museum in the autumn. This will give July’s intensive making and learning process a museum context and show how innovation, craft and material research come together. From […]
28 January 2026
New at Knit2Last: Maud Kuppen
We would like to introduce Maud Kuppen , lecturer and researcher at Saxion University of Applied Sciences. Maud obtained her Master of Science in Innovative Textile Development and has been working within the Sustainable & Functional Textiles research group since 2020. Her work focuses on sustainability in the textile sector, with a special focus on […]
28 January 2026
New at Care & Repair: Nora Veerman
We are delighted to introduce Nora Veerman as the new project coordinator for the Care & Repair project. Nora brings a unique combination of fashion theory, hands-on experience, and a strong passion for collaboration. Nora is fascinated by the interplay between research and design. With a background in art history and fashion studies, as well […]
22 January 2026
New whitepaper highlights opportunities for a circular and digital textile value chain
The European textile industry is at a pivotal moment. With stricter legislation on the way, growing geopolitical pressure and an increasing demand for sustainability, the sector needs to transform faster than ever. In a new white paper, researcher and NewTexEco Data Orchestrator Francesco Sollitto, together with several colleagues, analyses the green and digital transition required […]
17 December 2025
Spotted! Publication on Care & Repair
The first projects within CLICKNL ‘s Design Power & Transitions programme have started. In the new interview series Ontwerpkracht Crossovers, writer Twan Eikelenboom brings project leaders together to talk about their first experiences in the research phase. The first publication focuses on the Care & Repair project. This project is part of both Design Power […]
25 November 2025
New at NewTexEco: Karen Bosch
We welcome Karen Bosch as education coordinator within NewTexEco. Karen is a lecturer-researcher at Saxion‘ s Fashion & Textile Technologies programme and brings with her a broad background in commercial economics, communication science, market research, marketing and sustainability-oriented education within several colleges, including AMFI. There, it became clear to her how urgent the challenges in […]
10 November 2025
From wool remnant to 3D knitted future
In the project Closing the Knitwear Loop, our partner New Industrial Order (N.I.O.) together with chain partners Knit-It (Knit Manufacturer), Stcreative (Digital Design), Favourite Forms (Sizing & Fit) and Marije Lytske Hester (Impact Research) show how innovation, digitisation and circularity reinforce each other. The jumpers shown below are 3D-knitted from fully recycled wool; wool that […]
10 November 2025
Students take the lead in clothing sustainability research
How do students handle their clothes? And what role does that play in the transition to a circular fashion sector? The Care & Repair research project of ArtEZ University of the Arts (ArtEZ) and the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) actively involves students in understanding and changing clothing use. How students wash, dry and care for […]
29 October 2025
Strong together at Dutch Design Week: a community on the move
During Dutch Design Week, we as the NewTexEco community were literally and figuratively at the heart of the movement: in a prominent spot in the Klokgebouw building, we shared our vision of a sustainable, circular and regenerative textile sector. The interest was great and the discussions inspiring: together we showed how wide and lively the […]
21 October 2025
Between Technology and Tactility: a shared language for the textile sector
What happens when we treat textiles as data? Or when code itself becomes textiles?A recent interview for Seamless features two influential innovators exploring exactly that: Sandra Kuijpers ((Hogeschool van Amsterdam – FashionResearch & Technology / AMFI) and Troy Nachtigall (Hogeschool van Amsterdam – Fashion Research & Technology, member core – and programme team NewTexEco) Their […]
8 October 2025
About Lucie Huiskens: a pioneer who turned loose threads into a fabric
After 20 years of building cooperation and innovation in the fashion and textile sector, Lucie Huiskens, programme coordinator of NewTexEco, is bidding farewell to her working life at ArtEZ University of the Arts. And she is doing so in style. During Dutch Design Week, she will launch her e-magazine From loose threads to fabric. A […]
7 October 2025
A Dutch Design Week Textile Guide
From 18-26 October, Eindhoven is once again the scene of Dutch Design Week, with textile traditionally playing a big role. With work by more than 2,600 designers, sometimes you can’t see the wood for the trees. That is why NewTexEco, together with partner Modint, has compiled the Dutch Design Week Textile Guide . It contains […]