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Seeds of Change: Brown Family Farms’ Evolution in Hemp

Seeds of Change: Brown Family Farms’ Evolution in Hemp

by Ilsa Spaan | Sep 19, 2023 | Our Community, Sustainability | 0 comments

TS Designs has been a supporter of the use of hemp in the textiles industry for years, and we are finally getting to dig into this venture. Established in 1865 in Henderson, NC, Brown Family Farms stood as a testament to agricultural legacy, initially rooted in...
Customer Spotlight: Ran-Lew Dairy

Customer Spotlight: Ran-Lew Dairy

by Ilsa Spaan | Aug 24, 2023 | Cotton of the Carolinas, Customer Spotlight, Our Community, Our Customers, Sustainability

Randy Lewis and Eric Henry holding up a sample of his shirt with the TS Designs Marketing Team (Emily, Ilsa, Courtney)… and Lovely! “I am not famous. I am infamous.” We spent a hot day at Ran-Lew Dairy talking with farmer Randy Lewis. He is well...
Driving Sustainability: A Glimpse into Our Initiatives Benefitting People + Planet

Driving Sustainability: A Glimpse into Our Initiatives Benefitting People + Planet

by Julie J. Novara | Aug 3, 2023 | Energy, In the Garden, Our Community, REHANCE, Sustainability

People. Planet. Profit. Looking through the triple bottom line lens drives our journey as we continue to ask ourselves how we can improve our impact to people and the planet. Here are a few ways we are improving our impact: Our Business Initiatives   B...
Customer Spotlight: Saxapahaw General Store

Customer Spotlight: Saxapahaw General Store

by Emily Stasiak | Jul 28, 2023 | Cotton of the Carolinas, Customer Spotlight, Our Community, Our Customers, Sustainability, Transparency

Our August “Customer Spotlight” is awarded to the one and only Saxapahaw General Store, also known as ‘Your local five-star gas station.” Opened in 2008 by Jeff Barney and Cameron Ratliff, this general store has become a staple location in...
Radical Transparency Starts Here

Radical Transparency Starts Here

by Ilsa Spaan | Apr 27, 2023 | Cotton of the Carolinas, Our Community, Supply Chain, Sustainability, Transparency

Today, overseas manufacturing operations make up 98% of the clothing we purchase here in the United States. In this situation, it’s difficult to learn anything about where our clothes come from, and difficult to exercise our buying power to influence the market. We...
Putting the Farmer First: A guide to buying cotton directly from the farmer

Putting the Farmer First: A guide to buying cotton directly from the farmer

by Adam Lynch | Sep 2, 2022 | Publications

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Hemp White Paper

Hemp White Paper

by Adam Lynch | Jun 20, 2022 | Publications

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A Toolkit for Fibersheds and Brands

A Toolkit for Fibersheds and Brands

by Adam Lynch | Jun 20, 2022 | Publications

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Is Commodity Pricing the Best Model We Can Give Cotton Farmers?

Is Commodity Pricing the Best Model We Can Give Cotton Farmers?

by Adam Lynch | Jun 20, 2022 | Publications

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The Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Podcast – How (& Why) to Build a Local Dirt-to-Shirt Supply Chain

by Adam Lynch | Mar 22, 2022 | Podcasts

In a post-pandemic world, what’s the value of a dirt-to-shirt supply chain? Eric Henry, President of TS Designs, believes that now, more than ever, businesses need to take an increasingly holistic view of their responsibility to the planet and society as a...
Celebrating Black History Month – First Black-Owned Textile Mill Made History

Celebrating Black History Month – First Black-Owned Textile Mill Made History

by Courtney Lockemer | Feb 24, 2022 | Our Community

To commemorate Black History Month, we’d like to celebrate the first African American owned and operated textile mill, which is less than 100 miles from TS Designs’ Burlington, North Carolina headquarters. Built in the late 1890s, the mill broke ground literally and...
People, Planet, Profit: The Triple Bottom Line Leads Us into 2022

People, Planet, Profit: The Triple Bottom Line Leads Us into 2022

by Courtney Lockemer | Feb 7, 2022 | Dye House, Supply Chain, Sustainability, Transparency

People. Planet. Profit. The Triple Bottom Line has been our vision for years now. But like every business that’s faced unusual challenges in the last year, it hasn’t always been easy. TS Designs President Eric Henry says it’s been like juggling water. We’re...
6 Surprisingly Good Ways To Upcycle Your T-Shirts During the Holidays

6 Surprisingly Good Ways To Upcycle Your T-Shirts During the Holidays

by Julie J. Novara | Dec 22, 2021 | Sustainability

Imagine 13 million tons of clothes and shoes in a big pile in your backyard (if you have a really big backyard, of course.). Thirteen million times two thousand — that’s a lot of zeroes! Did you know that’s the amount of clothing and shoes the EPA estimates ended up...
Supporting Local This Holiday Season? There’s No Better Time.

Supporting Local This Holiday Season? There’s No Better Time.

by Julie J. Novara | Dec 1, 2021 | Our Community, Sustainability

  The holiday season has come around again, and there’s no better time to support local than during the season of giving. To learn more about the opportunity to shop local during the holidays, we sat down with Malik Walker, Market Manager at the 2021 Saxapahaw...
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