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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 […]
15 September 2025
Retrospective Circular Textile Days
The Circular Textile Days is a business event that provides an excellent opportunity to meet new partners within the sustainable textile sector and to discover and discuss innovative circular textile solutions. We also attended, with network manager Floor van der Holst as our point of contact. This 5th edition brought together over 90 companies from […]
15 September 2025
Meet us @ Dutch Design Week
Dutch Design Week celebrates a quarter-century of shaping the future. Under the theme Past. Present. Possible. DDW looks back on its legacy, showcases today’s creative energy and explores what design can become. A platform where ideas come together, possibilities open up and the future is shaped together. Of course we will be present! Our programme: […]
9 September 2025
Understanding sustainable clothing and consumer behaviour
Understanding consumer behaviour is essential for a more sustainable fashion industry. Since Maldini’s pioneering wardrobe study (2019), we know that the way people buy, use, care for and discard clothes plays a major role in the environmental impact of textiles. This is why NewTexEco is introducing the Wearer Dashboard, a user-friendly tool that allows researchers, […]
8 September 2025
New professor in Design: Perica Savanović
From 1 September 2025, Perica Savanović will start as professor in Design at ArtEZ University of the Arts. His arrival marks an important step for the development of the integrated research unit, in which education, research and professional field are more intensively connected. For NewTexEco, this means a valuable reinforcement in the joint mission to […]
3 September 2025
Launch Knit2Last: from waste to innovation
Knit2Last is an innovative step towards circular and smart knitwear production made possible by the KIEM HighTech 2025 grant. The textile industry is among the biggest environmental polluters worldwide. Large waste streams are created during production, while discarded textiles have limited circular recycling. Our NewTexEco partner New Industrial Order (N.I.O.) is developing smart, local on-demand […]
16 July 2025
Together we design new stories for fashion
ReFan: a shared future vision for a fair, sustainable clothing culture What if we reinvent fashion?What if branded clothes went out of fashion?What if every child learns to sew and knit?What if every garment is as unique as every human being? On 19 June 2025, more than 45 pioneers from the fashion and textile chain […]
30 June 2025
Loopholes: toolkit for system change in the fashion and textile sector
A roadmapping toolkit for those who want to make work of circular innovation As a designer, company, policy-maker or teacher, how do you shape a circular textile chain? Loopholes offers a practical and strategic answer. This Circular Innovation Roadmapping Toolkit helps users to initiate structural change from different perspectives. Think about developing circular business models, […]
11 June 2025
Floor van der Holst started as network coordinator
From 2 June, Floor van der Holst will strengthen the NewTexEco team in the position of Network Coordinator. In this role, Floor combines her research activities within Saxion University of Applied Sciences’ Sustainable and Functional Textiles Research Group with connecting partners within the NewTexEco network. Floor’s main task is to actively engage NewTexEco’s partners, with […]
4 June 2025
New Associate Lecturer Sustainable Textiles: Dr Haroutioun Askanian
We welcome Dr Harout Askanian as a new Associate Lecturer, responsible for the Sustainable Textiles research line within Saxion’s Sustainable & Functional Textiles research group – one of the core partners within NewTexEco. Haroutioun plays an important role in shaping practice-based research that contributes to the transition to a sustainable and circular textile industry. His […]