Textile

How firms linked to Chinese cotton giant shirk sanctions to sell clothes to US

The three garment makers together have exported at least $5 million in cotton goods to the US since Esquel was sanctioned. Details of the firms' US sales haven't been previously reported.

US and China’s national flags flutter in Tiananmen Square, ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump's visit to China, in Beijing, China, May 13, 2026.
A vendor organises textiles at a shop in Central Souq on July 22, 2015 in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

UAE launches Naseej initiative to tackle 220,000 tons of annual textile waste

Ancient textile fragment found at the Nahal Omer archaeological site in the Arava, southern Israel, by archaeologists from the University of Haifa, May 19, 2026.

Silk Road Virtual Museum opens first Israel exhibit, displays ancient textiles found in Arava

Israeli textile brand LINERA.

When fabric becomes soft architecture: The silent revolution of luxury textiles in the bedroom


Meeting the Druze women who make masks in the coronavirus age

"Most of our young Druze women want to go into hi-tech, not make hi-tech masks."

Crown Sewing Factory in Julis.

The next generation of promising textile designers in Israel

Shenkar’s newly minted graduates will be presenting their thesis projects throughout the campus on a variety of subjects, including society, medicine, economics, feminism, pride and independence.

TEXTILE ITEMS from ’Serenity’ by Bosmat Levi

Israeli start-up aims to create digital revolution in the textile industry

Driven by issues of environmental sustainability and material waste, Israeli digital dyeing start-up Twine Solutions is aiming to transform the mammoth global textile industry.

Digitally dyed threads produced by Twine Solutions

Jewish blues

The Jerusalem Bible Lands Museum’s ‘Out of the Blue’ exhibit creates a context for Jewish colors.

Murex shells from Tel Shimona, Israel, dating from the Second Iron Age, 10th to 7th centuries BCE