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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.”

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...

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

In 2021, TS Designs made strides in advancing our dirt-to-shirt mission while focusing on a triple bottom line: People, Planet, and Profit.

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...

Does Transparency in the Fashion Industry Matter? We Say, “Yes!”

Does Transparency in the Fashion Industry Matter? We Say, “Yes!”

by Julie J. Novara | Nov 1, 2021 | Supply Chain, Sustainability, Transparency

  Merriam-Webster says transparency is “the quality or state of being transparent – characterized by visibility or accessibility of information especially concerning business practices.” If you’ve followed our work for any length of time, you’ve heard us talk...

How Shopping for the Lowest Price Undermines Cotton Farmers

How Shopping for the Lowest Price Undermines Cotton Farmers

by Julie J. Novara | Oct 25, 2021 | Supply Chain, Sustainability, Transparency

Shopping for the lowest price has become a sport of sorts. End-of-the-season clearance sales and special holiday pricing has won many of us over, and we’ve gotten used to celebrating when we’ve scored a good deal. Sarah Kelley, Principal of Common Threads Consulting,...

Why Buyers and Brands Should Rethink the Way We Pay Cotton Farmers

Why Buyers and Brands Should Rethink the Way We Pay Cotton Farmers

by Julie J. Novara | Oct 18, 2021 | Supply Chain, Sustainability, Transparency

In a multi-billion-dollar global industry, farmers have become invisible. Though they’re essential to every aspect of our daily lives — from food to clothing—they’re often forgotten. Sowing their seeds, hoping for rain (but not too much). Waiting for harvest, and then...

Why Family Farmers Need an Effective Alternative to Commodity Pricing

Why Family Farmers Need an Effective Alternative to Commodity Pricing

by Julie J. Novara | Oct 4, 2021 | Supply Chain, Transparency

Family farmers are at the very beginning of the agricultural supply chain, and they’re some of the most vulnerable in a commodity marketplace.

Upcyled T-Shirt Ideas to Help You Go Plastic-Free

Upcyled T-Shirt Ideas to Help You Go Plastic-Free

by Courtney Lockemer | Jul 7, 2021 | Sustainability

For Plastic Free July, we’re sharing upcycled t-shirt ideas to replace things usually made from plastic with natural fibers.

Celebrate International T-shirt Day at TS Designs on June 18

Celebrate International T-shirt Day at TS Designs on June 18

by Courtney Lockemer | Jun 10, 2021 | Events, Our Community

International T-shirt Day is coming up, so we're celebrating with a T-shirt Party at TS Designs' headquarters in Burlington, NC on Friday, June 18! International T-Shirt Day Party Friday, June 18, 2021 4:00pm-7:00pm TS Designs 2053 Willow Springs Ln, Burlington, NC...

(Video) Part 4: The Harvest Conversation Series with Contempora Fabrics

(Video) Part 4: The Harvest Conversation Series with Contempora Fabrics

by Amy DuFault | Feb 16, 2021 | Uncategorized

For part 4 of our series, “The Harvest: A Gathering of Conversations for the Future of Cotton,” we talked with Alex Whitley, VP of Sales at Contempora Fabrics. Watch the video here. About Contempora: Founded in 1972, Contempora Fabrics is an employee owned circular...

RSVP: The Harvest: A Gathering of Conversations for the Future of Cotton (Carolina Cotton Works)

RSVP: The Harvest: A Gathering of Conversations for the Future of Cotton (Carolina Cotton Works)

by Amy DuFault | Feb 16, 2021 | Uncategorized

Have you RSVP’d for part 5 of “The Harvest: A Gathering of Conversations for the Future of Cotton?” Our next stop on our 10,000 Pounds of Cotton supply chain conversation on Thursday, March 11, at 12:00 PM is with Stacey Bridges, Sales Manager at Carolina Cotton...

(Video) Part 3: The Harvest Conversation Series with Andy Long of SpunLab

(Video) Part 3: The Harvest Conversation Series with Andy Long of SpunLab

by Amy DuFault | Jan 14, 2021 | Uncategorized

For part 3 of our series, "The Harvest: A Gathering of Conversations for the Future of Cotton," we talked with Andy Long of SpunLab. Since we launched the 10,000 Pounds of Cotton on our new sister site Solid State Clothing, (our project to bring the American farmer...

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