With a spectacular fashion show, where the UN guides themselves showed the garments, the new collection of tour guide clothes for the UN headquarters in New York City has now been launched – designed by students at the Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås.

A new research project aims to redefine the boundaries of textile design by exploring connections between textiles, insects, and indigenous knowledge. Can this approach help humans reconnect with nature? This is what Svenja Keune, a researcher at the Swedish School of Textiles, will investigate over three years in collaboration with Asya Ilgün, researcher from the University of Graz and Kuai Shen, multi-media artist and researcher from Germany.

The University of Borås and TEKO, the Swedish trade and employers’ association for companies working in the textile and fashion industry, through the Swedish Textile Research Foundation, SST, is jointly investing in a new research project at the Swedish School of Textiles. Within the framework of the project, large amounts of data will be collected from the textile value chain and then analysed with the help of new AI tools.

Today, only a fraction of all textiles are recycled. Katarina Lindström wants to change that. Her doctoral thesis in Textile Technology at the Swedish School of Textiles contributed unique knowledge about mechanical recycling: which processes and materials give the best results.

Interesting technology and big industry – now the labs at the Swedish School of Textiles have been kitted out with a new warp knitting machine. The university's textile labs are unique in their breadth and now their machine park is even more complete.