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PANGAIA and Spiber launch biofabricated hoodie
June 9th, 2022
PANGAIA has partnered with Spiber Inc. to introduce biofabricated garments. Photo: PANGAIA. Materials science company PANGAIA, based in London, introduces the fourth capsule within PANGAIA Lab—a limited-edition sweatshirt made in partnership with Japanese biomaterials manufacturing group Spiber Inc., featuring biotech Brewed Protein™ fibers and organic cotton. The company says this is the first time a […]
Pilot production of cell-cultivated leather funded
June 9th, 2022
Cell cultivated leather by VitroLabs. Photo: Adam Dillon. VitroLabs has raised $46 million to build and scale what it says is the world’s first pilot production of cell-cultivated leather. The biotech company, based in Milpitas, Calif., says that funding is led by Aronomics; among the additional investors are BESTSELLER’s Invest FWD, global luxury group Kering, Khosla […]
You call that a textile?
June 9th, 2022
It took me a while to embrace the larger industrial textiles world and get comfortable understanding them—all of them—as “textiles” (or “fabrics,” but that discussion will be for another time). What we may call traditional markets, such as awnings and canopies, tents and architectural structures, signage and other graphics, boat covers and upholstery, all use […]