Publications

White paper

Systemic value chain transformation

This white paper provides a clear overview of the green and digital transformation of the European and Dutch TCLF sector. The paper outlines both opportunities and challenges, emphasising the importance of collaboration within the chain. It also shows how new legislation and data sharing, such as the Digital Product Passport, can contribute to more transparency in the production chain and a future-proof, circular system.

E-magazine

Sustainable & Functional Textiles

This online magazine features a selection of projects demonstrating the potential of sustainable, functional and smart textile applications. The examples range from wearable healthcare solutions to circular textile technologies and show how research and practice are working together on the future of textiles.

E-pub

From loose threads to tissue

Interactive e-magazine on how the Dutch textile and fashion sector grew from loose initiatives to a strong network. Archive research by Lucie Huiskens.

Product

Loopholes Toolkit

The Loopholes Circular Innovation Roadmapping Toolkit helps designers, researchers, businesses and policymakers to build a circular textile supply chain together. This strategic toolkit, developed within the NewTexEco network, contains 50+ maps around digitisation, sustainability, business models and chain collaboration. Tested in practice, emerging from transdisciplinary research.

Book

Practising Solidarity | Critical Fashion and Agency that Matters

Practising Solidarity explores how to make and wear clothes in a solidarity-based way.

E-pub

Bamboo Europe

Guide

The Dutch circulair textile industry

This guide provides an overview of 115 Dutch textile organisations across the entire value chain and gives insight into the Netherlands’ circular textile ecosystem, with inspiring projects and collaborations. As a result, it provides a blueprint for future circular collaborations, both nationally and internationally.

E-pub

New Applications for Seagrass

Final report of the Smart Solutions Project: New uses for seagrass.

Report

Ecological Opportunities and Challenges for Sustainable Bamboo Cultivation in the Netherlands

Article

KEEPING IT LOCAL: 3D-knitted fisherman’s jumpers for contemporary communities

Article on the project Keeping it Local, published in Jaarboek Kostuum 2023, a publication of the Dutch Costume Society.

Book

Exploring seagrass for sustainable design

Article

Clothes moths, solution to textile waste problem?

Article based on NWO/SIA Germ project ‘Natural Clearing Agents: using moths in a circular textile value chain’ (Oct 2021-Oct 2022). Article available only in Dutch.