In celebration of Earth Day, Carhartt, America’s premium workwear brand since 1889, and The Farmlink Project have partnered to design a limited-edition T-shirt made in the USA from Climate Beneficial™ cotton sourced from farmers in the California […]
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Meet 13 California Designers Reimagining Textile Creation
Meet the 13 designers who participated in the spring 2024 Borrowed from the Soil Design Exhibition, February 29 – March 4 in Point Reyes Station, California.
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Post-Fossil Fuel Fashion: Q&A with George Harding-Rolls, Global Policy Researcher and Advocacy Campaigner
In this interview, George Harding-Rolls shares how consumers and brands can work together to build a fashion system that aligns with our ecological realities and benefits everyone involved.
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Waste Not: Wool Pellets Make Great Soil – and Business
Written by Stephany Wilkes. Photographed by Paige Green. Two fiber business owners – Charlene Schmid of Integrity Alpacas & Fiber and Anna Hunter of Longway Homestead – create wool pellets […]
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MATE the Label Launches a Climate Beneficial Collection Made to Last
By supporting farming practices for long-term good, MATE the Label and its partners in the California Cotton & Climate Coalition are advancing a planet-friendly fabrics model for fashion brands.
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Redefining Fashion’s Future: Rebecca Burgess Envisions Tomorrow’s Textile Landscape
A conversation on cultivating sustainability and cultural reverence in the textile industry with the Executive Director of Fibershed.
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Instagram Roundup: 3 Posts on Microplastics & Clothing
In 2023, Fibershed posted a popular series on Instagram focused on microplastics and clothing. Check out the full series here, and follow us on Instagram for more posts like these.
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A Soil-to-Soil Journey with the Northeastern Fibersheds
This past fall, I had the opportunity to visit Fibersheds in the Northeastern region of the United States. From touring knitting and wool mills, to visiting pastoral landscapes and wool washing facilities, I road tripped from Cape Cod, Massachusetts to Rhinebeck, New York, where I met up with ten fibersheds from our Affiliate Network at the New York Sheep & Wool Festival. Below is the story of this trip and the story of fibersheds; of the people working within their community rebuilding soil-to-soil textile systems and why that matters.
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Borrowed from the Soil: A Farm-to-Closet Design Exhibition
Fibershed’s ‘Borrowed from the Soil’ Design Exhibition explored a future vision where the way we produce and use one of our most basic human necessities — clothing — can support the longevity and health of our local ecosystems and communities.
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Cultivating Change: Reformation’s New Climate Beneficial™️ Cotton Line
Reformation is partnering with the California Cotton & Climate Coalition to purchase and manufacture garments using Climate Beneficial™️ Cotton, highlighting the brand’s commitment to sustainable fashion.
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