DNFI Steering Committee Meeting 2019
The members of DNFI met on January 9 for their annual steering committee meeting in Frankfurt a.M./Germany. The chair Dr. Terry Townsend reported that preliminary estimates indicate that world production …
87th Annual IWTO Congress 2018
Making up 40% of the world’s population, the first generation of the 21st century is starting to come of age. Known as Generation Z, members of this demographic are environmentally …
IWTO 2018 factsheets about wool
(Update: 17 February 2019) The International Wool Textile Organinisation (IWTO) released in January 2018 five new factsheets about the properties of wool. Download Wool Fact Sheet 5: Download Wool Fact …
Natural fibres production reaches 30 million tons
An estimated 60 million households were engaged in natural fibre production during 2016, including some 45 million households producing Cotton, 6 million producing Jute, kenaf and allied fibres, about 5 …
Allegations made against natural fibres are based on ignorance of agriculture
Dr. Terry Townsend as chair of DNFI.org rectifies fake fakts about growing natural fibres in a podcast of Elisabeth van Delden. He points out why it is so important for natural fibres to …
Fibres to Fabrics – An Historical Documentation
Sometimes the question is asked: “What has changed in textile in the last decades?” This historical film from the middle of the last century shows in 10 minutes textile techniques …
