Design and Textiles

Six Pullman businesses gave over their storefronts to WSU design students to showcase their work.

To honor the memory of their son, Max Pitts, Lynn and Paris Pitts have established an endowed scholarship for WSU’s Department of Apparel, Merchandising, Design, and Textiles.

WSU hosts a design competition where students will create products made from hotel linen waste to mitigate the environmental impacts of clothing and textile over-consumption and waste.

Starting next semester, AMDT students will have access to a widely used product lifecycle management software in the retail, fashion, footwear, and apparel industries.

WSU researchers study the motivations that fuel our mobile shopping.

Students in Apparel, Merchandising, Design, and Textiles help youth prepare clothing for feast

Exploring how the fast-evolving digital world is changing our clothing and fashions, Washington State University’s Department of Apparel, Merchandising, Design and Textiles (AMDT) will co-host an international conference, “Fashioning Digital Transformation,” July 15-18, 2019, in Seattle, Wash. Co-hosted with the Society of Fashion and Textile Industry as part of the 24th International Fashion Invitational Exhibition, […]

Thanks to new technology and support from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, scientists at Washington State University are helping keep millions of tons of cotton and cellulose waste out of the landfill, spinning it into valuable fibers for new clothing. Fabric going to waste Fiber consumption is on the rise as a growing world population demands […]

  For Chanmi Hwang, learning begins in the classroom—but moves to the laser-cutting workshop, the digital textile printing lab, a student blog, or the maternity ward of the local hospital. “I challenge my students to go beyond their expectations, and to take their learning beyond class to the real and the digital world,” says Hwang, […]

Textiles are everywhere: In the clothing we wear, on our furniture, in our cars. They give us shelter from the elements, protect our crops, prevent erosion, and help us heal after surgery. With so much more to textiles than meets the eye, it’s important for students to understand the science behind them—how and why textiles […]