Fabricating the Body: Textiles and Human Health in Historical Perspective

The 2011 Pasold Conference will be held on the 6-7 April 2011 at the University of Exeter on the theme of 'Fabricating the Body: Textiles and Human Health in Historical Perspective'. The conference will be supported jointly by the Pasold Research Fund and the Wellcome Trust.

Here is  a link to the conference website for those interested in textiles research and who might be in a position to attend http://www.pasold.co.uk/index.php/conferences/conference-2011

Our paper will be presented on the second day of the conference and is entitled "Sustainable Fashion Textiles Design: Value Adding through Technological Enhancement"

Shaping Sustainable Fashion

Finally...the book is out!

“Shaping Sustainable Fashion: Changing the Way We Make and Use Clothes.” Edited By Alison Gwilt and Timo Rissanen.

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This book includes some of our work in sustainable fashion textiles research. Specifically, the first chapter..."Source"....provides a fundamental introduction to the concept of sustainability in fashion and textiles as well as an overview of the shape of contemporary fashion research in the field.

Sustainable Fashion Textiles Research: Engaging with New Technologies

Sustainable Fashion Textiles Research: Engaging with New Technologies is a paper written by Dr Joan Farrer & Angie Finn for Textiles Magazine the quarterly journal of The Textiles Institute.

This paper discusses how new technologies will enable fashion textiles research to be disseminated amongst a new generation of producers and consumers via interactive and web technologies.

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