Textile Industry

Do you have a woollen jumper you've been giving a precautionary whiff before throwing back on again? Here's how to give it a wash.

An online marketplace is rehoming vast amounts of excess fabric left unused by Australian fashion brands — and it's good news for small labels and home sewers. 

When Newcastle's Belair Public School introduced a new uniform, it didn't want the old ones to end up in landfill. A plan was hatched to recycle them, and also help a remote Fijian community, cyclonic conditions and all.

The hemp industry's 10-year vision to expand, study, and promote Australia's hemp production has attracted considerable funding but it has been unsuccessful in the latest round of the national Cooperative Research Centres grants.

Cotton Australia says there has been a significant increase in licensed products bearing the homegrown mark and expects shoppers to see more of it in stores.

Tasmania's textile industry thrived soon after this iconic wool mill opened its doors in 1923. As the building's centenary is celebrated, former workers reflect on their time at Patons & Baldwins.

As low-quality textile waste poses a massive problem, cotton from the Ord Valley region and industrial hemp are being touted as a more localised and sustainable supply chain for the future.

Many of us are now dressed head to toe in plastic thanks to the invention of cheap and durable textiles like polyester. But the extent of the environmental impact from these garments might surprise you — we've tracked the life cycle of a polyester top from an oil field, through to when you chuck it in the bin.

New Zealand is known for its jaw-dropping scenery, first-class food and wine, and sheep — lots of them. But their flock is now a third of what it was 40 years ago, and Aussies are stepping in with plenty of merino wool to sell.

Australian merino wool products could become more boutique and harder to source, if a forecast decline in Western Australia's sheep flock comes to fruition.

At Australia's last remaining fully operational mill, Tassie sheep farmers Mandy and Carl Cooper had their sheep's fleece turned into beautiful family keepsakes.

More than 200,000 tonnes of clothing end up in landfill each year. With children's clothing a significant part of the problem, some people are turning to renting or op shopping to reduce waste.

A Tasmanian woolgrower's radical move to stop selling older sheep for slaughter has delivered an unexpected bonus: a New York ethical fashion retailer is paying double for her superfine wool.

Performer and farmer James Blundell says "covert" youthful attempts to grow his own have turned into an enthusiasm to produce hemp on a grand scale — and he's not alone.

Is the carpet you walk on each day potentially worth tens of thousands of dollars? Karl Pertl has uncovered such gems in Tasmania.

If consumers care to find out where it comes from and how it is grown, technology will soon allow us to scan a QR code and trace it all the way from farm to cotton gin to store.

Stafford introduced Australia to the bikini at a time women were ordered off the beach, but her life was about so much more — establishing the second largest industry on 1960s' Gold Coast behind sand mining.

Jordan Morris has been surfing for years, but he hates the wetsuits available on the market. So, he decided to make one himself, starting a viable business in the process.

Skilled migrant women are being employed in a new social enterprise textile industry producing quality fashion in Geelong. Rachel Clayton reports.

After 30 years and thousands of job applications, this social enterprise was the first business to give these women a chance. But without more business, it's going to shut down.