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We are a global non-profit driving positive impact on climate change across the fashion and textile industry. At Textile Exchange, materials matter.

10/16/2026

Implementation is a movement, not a moment 🌿

Today was all about creating spaces for dialogue and conversation that allow ideas to develop, grow, and scale—bringing together everyone from producers to lawyers, from standard systems to systems thinkers.

Together, we explored how partnership can look different to each of us. It could be a shared project, a commitment of shared risk, or a relationship built over years of trust and consistency. By taking time to understand different perspectives on what partnership means, we can avoid misunderstandings and create a foundation for meaningful progress.

Key takeaways from today included:

🌱 Bring teams together early to develop sustainability communications that are educational.

🌱 Strengthening collaboration between the food and fiber industries can scale regenerative agriculture and farmers’ livelihoods.

Thank you to everyone who joined us in Vancouver and online. We’ve had the pleasure of seeing our community come together to tackle the challenges that face the industry, and we are so grateful for the productive discussions that have come out of this week.

Keep an eye out for more insights and learnings from the conference in the coming weeks 💫

📸: Vancouver Videography & Photography Studio

10/15/2026

Days like these remind of us why we hold our annual conference. When we convene our global community of changemakers in one room, we have the opportunity to learn from each other, inspire each other, and create the partnerships that drive real change.

From boardrooms to balance sheets, from regeneration to recycling, day two explored the idea of leveraging existing systems and solutions to evolve progress.

Every session served as a reminder that the conversations had when people from different disciplines that touch our global textile industry come together are some of the most valuable ones to shape the next phase of solutions. 
Key takeaways from today’s sessions included:

🌱 New approaches to financing offer opportunity to unlock the transition to materials from preferred production systems.
🌱 A stronger understanding of global textile waste can help us to scale textile-to-textile recycling.
🌱 For regeneration to reach its full potential, we need to move from “brandscapes” to landscape-level collaboration.

See you tomorrow 💫

🎥: Collide Entertainment
📸: Vancouver Videography & Photography Studio

10/14/2026

What a day kicking off the 2026 Textile Exchange Conference 🌿

Each year, we bring over a thousand people and perspectives from across the fashion, textile, and apparel industry for three days of collective learning—all focused on the ways that we produce, choose, and reuse materials. This year, we are in Vancouver, Canada.

We started the morning with a territorial welcome by Chief Janice George, Master Weaver and Co-Founder, L’hen Awtxw Weaving House, and Debra Sparrow, Co-Founder and Owner, Salish Blanket Co. They shared their work to revive traditional Indigenous weaving practices, and highlighted the importance of passing on ancestral knowledge, preserving cultural identity, and honoring their deep connection to the land.

Diving into the day’s agenda, discussions focused on recognizing and engaging with the diverse realities that shape sustainability decision-making—from policy and targets to on the-ground experience. We deepened our understanding of different contexts and priorities across supply systems, building the shared awareness needed to move forward. Insights and learnings from today’s sessions included:

🌿Context determines what a realistic and appropriate transition to preferred production systems looks like.
🌿Resilience requires planning for constant disruption.
🌿Brands and producers should align on monitoring needs, data requirements, and shared responsibilities upfront.
🌿Setting company targets is a critical step toward industry-wide progress.
🌿Companies can, and should, start preparing now for forthcoming EU policy.

We will be back again tomorrow, for another day of bringing brands, farmers, suppliers, and many more exciting voices together to harness the progress that happens when different realities come together at the same table.

🎥: Collide Entertainment
📸: Vancouver Videography & Photography Studio

10/08/2026

A traditional pastoral way of life that has endured for generations in the Himalayan plateau.

Meet one of the runners-up of the Textile Exchange photography competition, in partnership with Atmos. Wasim Malik (Wasim Inshaq Malik) is a Ladakhi photographer and filmmaker documenting remote regions, observing life as it naturally unfolds.

His winning project centers on the Changpa people raising Changthangi goats, whose fine undercoats produce the prized pashmina fiber. Adapted to one of the world’s harshest high-altitude environments, Changthangi goats are central to the Changpa nomads’ pastoral way of life. Malik’s images capture close relationship between the Changpa people and their livestock, and the intricate process of handmade textile production passed down through generations of Himalayan nomads.

Despite the harsh weather, life moves forward guided by resilience, tradition, and a deep connection to the land.

🔗 Discover the full story at our link in bio.

10/07/2026

This , we’re spotlighting the work of our friends at CottonConnect, an organization that works with cotton farmers in India to teach regenerative practices. Through methods of intercropping, replacing chemical pesticides with biopesticides, and making natural fertilizers, they’re helping thousands of farmers to improve their lands’ soil health and lower carbon emissions.

In the villages of the Amravati region in Maharasthra, India, CottonConnect has installed 13 demonstration centers where local farmers can come and see regenerative techniques firsthand and take the learnings home to their own farms. The program has been successful, with CottonConnect reporting yields increased by 4.8%, water use reduced by 14%, and 41% lower carbon emissions per acre from the project farms, in the second year of its Regenerative Cotton Pilot.

Learn more about the farmers of Maharasthra and the initiative at our link in bio.

📸: Abhishek Khedekar
CottonConnect

10/05/2026

The women of a historic Himalayan village transforming wool into a livelihood 🧶

Elena Siretanu (Elena Sirețanu) is a runner-up of this year’s Textile Exchange photography competition in partnership with Atmos.

Her project documents the women of the Himalayan village of Naggar, in India’s Kullu Valley, where wool, plants, domestic space, and labor are closely connected. The story centers on Kullvi Whims, a community-rooted social enterprise that grew from a modest initiative with a single sewing machine and a small group of women into an expanding network of artisans. By working with indigenous Himalayan wool, natural dyes, and labor-intensive hand processes, Kullvi Whims is rebuilding a local textile chain around materials and skills that already belong to the region.

This story reflects a new understanding of regeneration—not just as a single environmental intervention, but as the rebuilding of relationships between people, materials, place and economic life.

Based between London and Chișinău, Siretanu is a Moldovan-born visual storyteller and documentary photographer. Her work is shaped by a life lived between Eastern and Western Europe and explores identity, belonging, memory, intimacy, and representation.

Discover the full visual story at our link in bio.

10/01/2026

🏆 Discover the winning project of this year’s Textile Exchange photography competition in partnership with .

Claudia Revidat () is a French photographer and filmmaker whose work documents the lives and work of the women of Ghazipur, on the outskirts of Delhi, India.

Among mountains of waste lie countless discarded garments and textile fibers—this is where the story of our materials continues. On this open-air landfill, local women tirelessly sort through layers of discarded materials, recovering plastic, textiles, and anything that still holds value.

Living alongside them for several days, Revidat encountered a remarkable sense of solidarity and quiet resilience in a place defined by extreme environmental degradation.

Her resulting project does not present Ghazipur as a model of regeneration. Instead, it reveals why regeneration has become essential. It exposes the environmental and human consequences of a system in which materials continue to exist long after they have disappeared from our lives, encouraging a broader reflection on responsibility across the fashion supply system.

True regeneration cannot focus solely on materials. It must also restore landscapes, protect communities, and recognize the invisible labor of those who already extend the life of what we choose to throw away.

🔗 View the full short film and accompanying photos at our link in bio.

09/30/2026

🎤 Meet some more of the speakers taking the stage at the 2026 Textile Exchange Conference in less than two weeks!

There’s still time to join us in Vancouver for three days of collective learning focused on the ways that we produce, choose, and reuse materials ⬇️

Under the theme The Implementation Era, this year’s event explores how we can scale what works across businesses, supply systems, and landscapes. The agenda is rooted in the realities of those leading and delivering change—from sustainability executives and practitioners to material producers.

📆 October 12-16, 2026
📍 Vancouver, Canada
🎟️ Registration is still open!

Swipe to meet the voices leading these important conversations ➡️

Learn more about the conference and register at our link in bio.

09/28/2026

How much fiber and material do we actually produce? And how much of that comes from recycled sources?

➡️ Swipe for the data

This data is from our newly released Materials Market Report, which covers total global raw material production by weight used across all industries, as well as estimates of the production used specifically within the apparel, home textiles, bags, footwear, and technical textiles sectors.

🔗 Head to our link in bio to read the full report.

09/24/2026

Together, we can turn these pockets of progress into lasting change 🌱

Swipe to discover the highlights from the 2026 Materials Benchmark, which includes materials sourcing data from 384 brands and retailers.

The benchmark tracks fiber and raw material volumes used by participating companies along with other sourcing best practices, enabling both individual and collective progress tracking. These companies reporting through the benchmark are demonstrating their leadership, outpacing the trends seen across the global production volume data.

Read the full factsheet at our link in bio.

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