Cooperative Fiber Supply Chains Sow Resilience During Pandemic
Could cooperative fiber supply chains sow resilience during life-altering events like a pandemic? Fibershed writes in their article Benefiting Climate & Communities: How Clothing Cooperatives Could Grow Equitable Regional Economies how cooperative structures like...
TS Designs Faces Off in “Coolest Thing Made in NC” Contest
We are one of three Alamance County-made products that are in the running for the “Coolest Thing Made in NC” contest, but we need your votes to win! Over 70 nominees were announced Monday, Aug. 24. Among the local nominees are Benevolence Farm’s Healing Salve, TS...
TS Designs + Eric Henry on The Wave Hanson Podcast
The Wave Hanson Podcast writes: "Our morals and ethics are decided by each and every decision, including what type of clothes we wear. Eric Henry empowers his company and his community with a triple bottom line of people, planet, and profit. His work in textiles from...
Reshoring the Textile Supply Chain is Easier Said Than Done
Thanks to Supply Chain Dive for this article on TS Designs on "Why Reshoring the Textile Supply Chain is Easier Said Than Done." U.S. textile production, and the apparel manufacturing that depends on it, cannot return to its former glory without multi-million dollar...
TS Designs Featured on Green Business Network
The Green Business Network writes: "Green businesses are getting creative amid the coronavirus pandemic to keep their stores open. We find their tenacity and commitment to the green economy inspiring in these challenging times. Here are three Green Business Network...
PODCAST: Eric Henry on ‘Good People’ with Kelsey Timmerman
Thanks to Kelsey Timmerman for inviting Eric on the podcast Good People. Kelsey is the New York Times Bestselling author of WHERE AM I WEARING? A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes and WHERE AM I EATING? An Adventure Through the...
Apparel Manufacturers Hit Hard in Crisis
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 to get back to full...
Pandemic Gives Pause for Reimagining Supply Chains
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...
Vapor Apparel, TS Designs Revamp Business Models to Close PPE Gap
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 chains are forming now...
FOX 8 NEWS: TS Designs Makes Upcycled Face Coverings
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 masks...
A Snapshot of the Current Fashion Industry Landscape
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 supply chain...
REHANCE – Powerful Printing for the Environmentally Conscious
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 Printing -...
Free Produce Movement First Local Campaign Against Slave Labor
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 from...
Local Manufacturing and Living Wages
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...
Eric Henry on Building A Resilient Community
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...