About Future Fashion Factory
UKFT is the chair of the Future Fashion Factory, a £5.4 million R&D partnership exploring and developing new digital and advanced textile technologies to boost the design of high-value creative products.
Find out about the latest supported projects in Innovation Call 4 here.
Fashion and textile companies can apply for funding for research and development (R&D) grants as part of the Creative Industries Cluster Programme, funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council and part of the Industrial Strategy.
“This is very much a collaborative research and development effort, with industry defining the challenges and then leveraging academic expertise to help create solutions. Being led by industry in this way means we are focussing on fixing real problems and working with the businesses that have the means to implement solutions and maximise the benefit to industry and the UK.”
Professor Stephen Russell, Programme Director of FFF
Latest funding call
Future Fashion Factory has launched a six-month sustainability challenge offering grants of up to £25,000 to support short-term, high-impact collaborative innovation projects.
Call Opens: 10 January 2022
Deadline for full applications: 28 February 2022
Successful applicants notified: 30 March 2022
Future Fashion Factory Case Studies
Detecting Misalignment for Efficient, Sustainable Fabric Finishing
WT Johnson are using computer vision to detect weft misalignment
FIND OUT MOREEco-Friendly Fabric Finishes for Sustainable Manufacturing
Camira is developing eco-friendly alternatives to flame-retardant finishes
FIND OUT MORECircular Materials for Sustainable Swimwear
RubyMoon Gym to Swim is working out how to turn waste swimwear into a new material
FIND OUT MOREInnovative Materials for Planet-Positive Textiles
SaltyCo are developing 'planet-positive' textiles using regenerative agriculture
FIND OUT MOREMaximising the Value of Luxury Leather
HSSMI worked with Burberry and others to determine how to maximise the value of luxury leather across the fashion and automotive sectors
FIND OUT MOREInnovative Digital Marketing for Independent Fashion Brands
Nomad Atelier explored options for digital marketing and improving the customer e-commerce experience
FIND OUT MOREShort Run Bespoke Fabrics for AW Hainsworth
AW Hainsworth and Yorkshire Textiles trialled short runs of bespoke jacquard fabric
FIND OUT MORERoaches International Takes Fabric Evaluation Commercial
Roaches International are commercialising University of Leeds research on communicating about fabric handle without sending samples
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