by Julie Johnson Novara | May 26, 2020 | News, Our Community, Supply Chain
The global pandemic has hit apparel manufacturers hard. Locally, we’ve shifted gears to produce PPE, bundle grab bags of irregular tees, and launch a “Buy Local” t-shirt. We’re working with a limited workforce but doing everything in our power...
by Julie Johnson Novara | May 12, 2020 | News, Our Community, Supply Chain, Sustainability
Image: Paige Green Photography We invite you to think with us for a moment about what our communities will look like when the 2020 pandemic has passed, face mask sales have dwindled, and we have the opportunity to shift our focus back to building local supply chains...
by Amy DuFault | May 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
ETextile Communications writer John McCurry writes on how “Vapor Apparel, TS Designs Revamp Business Models to Close PPE Gap.” “U.S. textile companies continue to revamp their business models to serve the needs of the coronavirus era. New supply...
by Amy DuFault | May 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
TS Designs On Fox 8 News: “As the state starts to reopen and more people start heading out face coverings will be key. Mayors across the Piedmont Triad are encouraging people to keep wearing them and some cities are giving them out for free. “It looks like face...
by Julie Johnson Novara | Apr 28, 2020 | News, Supply Chain, Sustainability
Here’s a snapshot of the current landscape of the fashion industry from our friends at universities around the world and at Parsons School of Design in New York… The fashion industry is facing increasing global scrutiny of its environmentally polluting...
by Julie Johnson Novara | Apr 13, 2020 | REHANCE, Sustainability, T-Shirt Options
Environmentally conscious customers love the REHANCE process we provide on all our t-shirts. It’s a higher quality, eco-friendly alternative to traditional t-shirt printing methods, and it’s unique to TS Designs. Let’s talk shop for a minute. Traditional...
by Amy DuFault | Apr 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
According to Quakers in the World, “The “free produce” movement was a boycott of any goods produced with slave labour. It was seen as a way of fighting slavery by having consumers buy only produce from non-slave labour. The movement was active in North America...
by Julie Johnson Novara | Mar 24, 2020 | Our Community, Supply Chain
TS Designs President Eric Henry is not shy about advocating for living wages. In 2020, he had the opportunity to participate on a panel discussion at the Industrial Hemp Summit. The discussion on the demand for domestic hemp fiber turned to the importance of seeing...
by Amy DuFault | Mar 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
TS Designs President Eric Henry on Building A Resilient Community As we wake each day to headlines about the spread of the Coronavirus, this ominous situation is also a wake-up call about the weaknesses and cracks in the global economy. If our community is largely...
by Julie Johnson Novara | Mar 10, 2020 | Supply Chain, Sustainability
Farmers and agriculture are the backbone of our state, but the farming industry is the most financially and emotionally challenged sector in North Carolina. Farm Bureau reported that in the 12 months leading up to September, 2019, 18 farms filed Chapter 12...
by Julie Johnson Novara | Feb 25, 2020 | Our Community, Supply Chain, Sustainability
Community engagement became a top priority after the North American Free Trade Agreement nearly destroyed TS Designs in 1994. That’s when CEO Eric Henry realized there was more to a business than just the “bottom line.” By the late 90s, we’d shifted our focus to...
by Julie Johnson Novara | Feb 11, 2020 | Sustainability
By Eric Henry I’m a tree hugger. My dreams of protecting the environment started when I was growing up on West Front Street in Burlington. We had a vegetable garden in my parents’ backyard, and later my grandfather and I built a geodesic greenhouse. That’s where I...
by Julie Johnson Novara | Jan 28, 2020 | Sustainability, Transparency
President and CEO Eric Henry was recently featured in an article on responsible business in Textile Insight. In it, he shares how TS Designs started on the journey to becoming the first certified B Corporation in North Carolina. “When Nicole Bassett envisioned how to...
by Julie Johnson Novara | Jan 14, 2020 | Supply Chain, Sustainability, Transparency
In this Sourcing Journal article on US hemp production, TS Designs president and CEO Eric Henry talks about the challenges and hopes for a domestic hemp supply chain. TS Designs is pressing forward with Solid State Clothing, the company’s latest line that will feature...
