Future Fibres Network Plus
@ffnplus.bsky.social
Bringing environmental science into the heart of the UK fashion and textile sectors.
Find us at www.futurefibresnetworkplus.com
Find us at www.futurefibresnetworkplus.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
October 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
📢 New Blog post available from Ben Parker from the @exeter.ac.uk
❓ How has your network grown through Future Fibres Network Plus?
👉https://futurefibresnetworkplus.com/future-fibres-network-network-activity-summary/
❓ How has your network grown through Future Fibres Network Plus?
👉https://futurefibresnetworkplus.com/future-fibres-network-network-activity-summary/
October 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
📢 New Blog post available from Ben Parker from the @exeter.ac.uk
❓ How has your network grown through Future Fibres Network Plus?
👉https://futurefibresnetworkplus.com/future-fibres-network-network-activity-summary/
❓ How has your network grown through Future Fibres Network Plus?
👉https://futurefibresnetworkplus.com/future-fibres-network-network-activity-summary/
link here: 👉https://futurefibresnetworkplus.com/recycled-neoprene-what-the-public-thinks-vs-what-the-specialists-say/
October 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM
link here: 👉https://futurefibresnetworkplus.com/recycled-neoprene-what-the-public-thinks-vs-what-the-specialists-say/
PCT Pot Data Visualisation Announcement
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October 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
📢 Project Announcement!
Find more details of our new NERC: (Natural Environment Research Council)-funded project below 👇
Find more details of our new NERC: (Natural Environment Research Council)-funded project below 👇
September 22, 2025 at 9:23 AM
📢 Project Announcement!
Find more details of our new NERC: (Natural Environment Research Council)-funded project below 👇
Find more details of our new NERC: (Natural Environment Research Council)-funded project below 👇
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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#circularfashion #SustainableFashion #FutureFibresNetworkPlus
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Richard Blackburn at the Design Museum
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September 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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
youtube.com/shorts/wvVaa...
#circularfashion #SustainableFashion #FutureFibresNetworkPlus
youtube.com/shorts/wvVaa...
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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Tamara Galloway at the Design Museum
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August 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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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🎤 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...
Abigail Irving Munroe at the Design Museum
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August 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
🎤 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...
Our latest newsletter has just been published! See the link here:
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🌴Future Fibres Network Plus July 2025 Newsletter🥼
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August 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Our latest newsletter has just been published! See the link here:
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📽️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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Peter Palmer at the Design Museum
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July 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
📽️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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📰 See the latest events and news in our June newsletter here 👇 ! To subscribe go to the website.
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👚Future Fibres Network Plus June 2025 Newsletter♻️
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July 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM
📰 See the latest events and news in our June newsletter here 👇 ! To subscribe go to the website.
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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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Rachel Singer at the Design Museum
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June 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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).
youtube.com/shorts/I41Q7...
youtube.com/shorts/I41Q7...
🎤 **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
❓ 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
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June 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
🎤 **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
❓ 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
📽️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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May 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
📽️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👇
youtu.be/ZHmVCWTQNkI
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📽️ *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
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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April 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
📽️ *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
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
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.
youtu.be/KkMgBf7BITE
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.
youtu.be/KkMgBf7BITE
UP (Unlocking potential of post-consumer textiles…)
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April 15, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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.
youtu.be/KkMgBf7BITE
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.
youtu.be/KkMgBf7BITE
🎤 **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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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!
futurefibresnetworkplus.com/ff/fabriotic/
Fabriotic
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April 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
🎤 **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!
futurefibresnetworkplus.com/ff/fabriotic/
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!
futurefibresnetworkplus.com/ff/fabriotic/
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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March 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Our March Newsletter has just been published! Follow the link here for all the latest news!
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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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🎥 👇 See this short video from Dr Joseph Houghton for more details.
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Coloration in Flow
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March 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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.
futurefibresnetworkplus.com/ff/coloratio...
🎥 👇 See this short video from Dr Joseph Houghton for more details.
futurefibresnetworkplus.com/ff/coloratio...
🎤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/
🤝 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/
March 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
🎤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/
🤝 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/
*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...
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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March 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
*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...
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...
🗣️ 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
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February 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
🗣️ 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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🦭“Where are the fibres we are finding in the stomachs of marine life coming from?
🦀What can we do to mitigate this?“ asked Dr Ceri Lewis, at @exeter.ac.uk at the 'Network Talk' 👇 recently.
Future Fibres Network+ is connecting many disciplines in the fashion and textile industry. More details 🔻.
🦀What can we do to mitigate this?“ asked Dr Ceri Lewis, at @exeter.ac.uk at the 'Network Talk' 👇 recently.
Future Fibres Network+ is connecting many disciplines in the fashion and textile industry. More details 🔻.
February 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
🦭“Where are the fibres we are finding in the stomachs of marine life coming from?
🦀What can we do to mitigate this?“ asked Dr Ceri Lewis, at @exeter.ac.uk at the 'Network Talk' 👇 recently.
Future Fibres Network+ is connecting many disciplines in the fashion and textile industry. More details 🔻.
🦀What can we do to mitigate this?“ asked Dr Ceri Lewis, at @exeter.ac.uk at the 'Network Talk' 👇 recently.
Future Fibres Network+ is connecting many disciplines in the fashion and textile industry. More details 🔻.
🔊 Final Project Announcement!
Mini project #8: Coloration in Flow: University of Leeds has partnered with industry coloration specialist, Keracol Limited Ltd. More details 👇!
@unioftheartslondon.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @ukri.org
Mini project #8: Coloration in Flow: University of Leeds has partnered with industry coloration specialist, Keracol Limited Ltd. More details 👇!
@unioftheartslondon.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @ukri.org
January 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
🔊 Final Project Announcement!
Mini project #8: Coloration in Flow: University of Leeds has partnered with industry coloration specialist, Keracol Limited Ltd. More details 👇!
@unioftheartslondon.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @ukri.org
Mini project #8: Coloration in Flow: University of Leeds has partnered with industry coloration specialist, Keracol Limited Ltd. More details 👇!
@unioftheartslondon.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @ukri.org