It’s winter, so many of us will be bringing out, or buying, winter bedding. But how much of a difference does your bedding make to your thermal comfort? Can a particular textile help you sleep? Is...
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These 4 tips can help you build a more sustainable wardrobe
Sustainably adding to your wardrobe involves questioning your needs and taking your time shopping for each piece to understand how and where it was made — the antithesis of the fast fashion which...
Why you need to understand greenwashing
How the Fossil Ad Ban programme made history by lodging South Africa’s first greenwashing complaint
Q&A: Greenpeace’s Angelo Louw gives us his view on plastic pollution in Africa
How Angelo Louw’s grassroots activism inspired his short film for Greenpeace, TRASH
Your wig could be poisoning you
Well-groomed hair is a symbol of beauty for many black African women. Natural hair requires special care and attention, though, which can be time consuming. Wigs (human or synthetic hair), weave-ons...
Book your tickets for Africa Textile Talks 2024
Are you ready to explore how fashion and textiles can help us live in harmony with nature and with each other? Are you interested in the future of a post-fossil fuel fashion and textile industry?...
4 Young South Africans share their hopes and dreams for the future
It's been 48 years since the Apartheid regime police ambushed youth in Soweto who were marching against Bantu Education Act and Afrikaans as the medium of instruction on 16 June 1976. On that tragic...
Meuse Farm’s natural dye garden opens the way for sustainable practices
Iming Lin is the farmer and co-founder of Meuse Farm — a small but mighty farm in Cape Town’s lush, urban foothills. Since 2020, Iming has been nurturing a natural dye garden on the farm where she...
Q&A: Diana Cilliers give us a peek into the White Cube boutique world
A new boutique has opened in Muizenberg, Cape Town's seaside suburb on False Bay. Curated by Diana Cilliers, the retail destination offers a selection of beautifully crafted, artisanal garments made...
Follow the wool value chain journey from farm to fibre
Fashion is an inherently interconnected industry, supporting many livelihoods and expanding across several different fields. Fashion production has the capacity to bring our society closer to a...
Growth of ultra-fast fashion undermines the industry’s sustainability ambitions
Since the 1990s, fast fashion has enabled everyday people to buy the latest catwalk trends. But the sheer volume of garments being whipped up, sold and soon discarded is contributing to a global...
Harvesting natural dyes with Botanical Nomad’s Ira Bekker
Dyeing from nature and given textiles the colours of the wild are what keeps the Botanical Nomad, Ira Bekker, walking in the woods.
These are the archivists of a living tradition
How the ingenuity of Africa’s weavers, spinners, dyers, smiths, bead and leather workers came from an understanding of the very fabric of life.
Spotlight: FRED RICH founder Dinka Fredrich explains her one-of-a-kind fashion
Tagged Conscious with Punk Spice on its Instagram account, FRED RICH is an upcycled fashion brand handmade in Cape Town. Most garments are one-of-a-kind and each is a slow fashion statement, made...
On seeking decolonial kindness in SA fashion education
Education offers routes to knowing. In fashion and craft, these routes to knowledge are pathways to careers, occupations, aspirations and even survival in the creative economy. But, access to...