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Richard Blackburn at the Design Museum

Future Fibres Network Plus @ffnplus.bsky.social · 26d

📢 Project Announcement!

Find more details of our new NERC: (Natural Environment Research Council)-funded project below 👇

Future Fibres Network Plus @ffnplus.bsky.social · Sep 10

What makes this network unique? Here's Richard Blackburn, Deputy PI talking at the Design Museum, on why the collaborations between environmental scientists and designers can shape the fashion of the future.

#circularfashion #SustainableFashion #FutureFibresNetworkPlus

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Tamara Galloway at the Design Museum

Future Fibres Network Plus @ffnplus.bsky.social · Aug 26

Watch Prof Tamara Galloway introduce our 2nd Townhall Meeting at the Design Museum this summer. A year after we announced the launch of our Flexible Fund for mini research projects, our project partners provide updates on their exciting work and achievements so far.
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Abigail Irving Munroe at the Design Museum

Future Fibres Network Plus @ffnplus.bsky.social · Aug 20

🎤 Dr Abigail Irving-Munro heads up the Network Plus in Circular Fashion & Textiles Programme Co-ordination Team Early Career Researchers network. Watch her talking recently at FFN+ Townhall #2 event at the Design Museum about the importance of creating such a network. youtube.com/shorts/GvBzn...

🌴Future Fibres Network Plus July 2025 Newsletter🥼

Future Fibres Network Plus @ffnplus.bsky.social · Aug 4

Our latest newsletter has just been published! See the link here:
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Peter Palmer at the Design Museum

Future Fibres Network Plus @ffnplus.bsky.social · Jul 11

📽️Watch Peter Palmer from Circular Flow present how Natural Environment Research Council funding is helping improve the current neoprene (what wetsuits are made from) 🏄 recycling landscape in the UK.
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Future Fibres Network Plus @ffnplus.bsky.social · Jul 7

📰 See the latest events and news in our June newsletter here 👇 ! To subscribe go to the website.

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Rachel Singer at the Design Museum

Future Fibres Network Plus @ffnplus.bsky.social · Jun 30

At our 2nd Townhall meeting we heard from experts about how our projects are embedding circular principles at the heart of the fashion & textile sector. Here, Rachel Singer from ReLondon hopes to influence a wide audience with her project UP (more info on website).

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Tiki Surf Shop - European Dealer surf equipment

Future Fibres Network Plus @ffnplus.bsky.social · Jun 18

🎤 **Mini project Interview**

❓ Have you ever thought about where your wetsuit goes when you’ve finished with it?

Here’s an interview with Dr Katie Major-Smith from one of the newly-funded NERC projects below: youtu.be/Q1MlzFbh7d4

Special thanks to Tikisurfshop.com

Rivenditore Starboard - JpAustralia - Neilpryde - Naish - F2 - Duotone - Simmer - Severne - HaydenShape - Torq - Nsp - Prolimit - Quiksilver - O'neilll - Dakine - Takayama

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Future Fibres Network Plus @ffnplus.bsky.social · May 14

📽️In this video Professor Mahbub Hassan from the University of the Arts London explains how the work he and his team at Sequinova and the University of Exeter are carrying out on sustainable sequins can help make the fashion industry more responsible👇

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Project 7 _Bio Based Sequins_FV

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Future Fibres Network Plus @ffnplus.bsky.social · Apr 23

📽️ *Project Interview *

As a project we want to ensure that we leave a legacy by innovating in both🎓education and skills in the Fashion and Textile Industry.

Rosie Hornbuckle from @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social is PI of CollaborAcademy. 👓Take a look! 👇https://youtu.be/866oUosmuI0

CollaborAcademy

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UP (Unlocking potential of post-consumer textiles…)

Future Fibres Network Plus @ffnplus.bsky.social · Apr 15

Interview with Prof Stephen Russell
How can we help reduce the c1.4 million tonnes of UK’s textile waste? We can make our economy more circular by developing the UK’s infrastructure for handling post-consumer waste, allowing it to be used optimally by end-of-life markets.

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Future Fibres Network Plus @ffnplus.bsky.social · Apr 1

🎤 **Mini Project Interview**
How can we help deal with athletic attire being thrown away prematurely due to malodour? By co-designing biotic textiles and care products.
See this short video from Dr Angela Sherry for more details!

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Fabriotic

Future Fibres Network Plus @ffnplus.bsky.social · Mar 26

Our March Newsletter has just been published! Follow the link here for all the latest news!

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🗞️Future Fibres Network Plus February 2025 Newsletter

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Future Fibres Network Plus @ffnplus.bsky.social · Mar 24

To address one of the most environmentally damaging processes in the textile supply chain the University of Leeds has partnered with Keracol Ltd.

🎥 👇 See this short video from Dr Joseph Houghton for more details.

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Coloration in Flow

Future Fibres Network Plus @ffnplus.bsky.social · Mar 21

🎤Project News!
🤝 UAL and University of Leeds have partnered with Ananas Anam and Salt.Fabrics , thanks to funding from NERC. To see more watch an interview with Dr @Helen Paine, the project's PI. 👉https://futurefibresnetworkplus.com/ff/all-cellulose-composite/

Future Fibres Network Plus @ffnplus.bsky.social · Mar 5

*Project News!* Work has started on the Increasing Textile Circularity Project which received funding from NERC recently.

Follow the link to hear a video interview with Max Kelly from University of Plymouth who is working with industry partner Plan B. futurefibresnetworkplus.com/ff/increasin...

Increasing Textile Circularity

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Future Fibres Network Plus @ffnplus.bsky.social · Feb 26

🗣️ Future Fibres Network Plus's latest newsletter (February) has been published ⬇️ You can find the link here. Subscribe on the website for future issues to be delivered straight to your inbox 😊
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🗞️Future Fibres Network Plus February 2025 Newsletter