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Tag: Natural Dye Garden

Students feeling mohair yarn in a laboratory setting

Slow Fashion Capstone Project Highlights Four Sustainable Fibers

May 28, 2024 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Business & Technology, Students, Sustainability, Top Stories

  The 33 students who developed this year’s Textile Development and Marketing capstone project, titled “Farm to Fabric,” describe it […]

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FIT’s Natural Dye Garden Is Flourishing

October 12, 2022 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, Featured, Sustainability

FIT’s Natural Dye Garden, established in 2014 and located on the ninth floor rooftop of the Feldman Center, has long […]

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Students Advocate for Sustainability at Clinton Global Initiative University

May 6, 2021 Jonathan Vatner Students, Sustainability, Top Stories

For the eighth year in a row, FIT students have been accepted to the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U). […]

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students planting on FIT's green roof

Seven Ways FIT Is Helping the Earth

October 1, 2020 Jonathan Vatner College & Campus, Featured, Sustainability

Sustainability Awareness Week, October 5 to 9, is a chance to take stock of past achievements in sustainability and plan […]

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I’d Rather Dye with Flowers: Natural Dye Demonstration

September 27, 2017 Laura Hatmaker

Bring your own light colored natural textile (silk, wool, cotton) to learn the unique, free form technique of bundle dyeing […]

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TDM Department Receives EPA Grant to Study Plant Growth with Muslin Compost

May 4, 2017 Alexandra Mann College & Campus, School of Business & Technology, Students, Sustainability, Top Stories

A garden grows at FIT (and it grows better with muslin compost). FIT’s Textile Development and Marketing (TDM) Department has […]

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Campus Green Market

September 21, 2016 Laura Hatmaker

Fruits and vegetables grown by local farms will be for sale, plus tours of one of the FIT green roofs […]

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Student Projects Headed to Clinton Global Initiative University

March 28, 2016 FIT Newsroom College & Campus, FIT + Industry, Home, School of Art & Design, School of Business & Technology, Students, Sustainability

For the third consecutive year, the highly competitive Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) has accepted Commitments to Action developed […]

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Muslin Compost Spread For the First Time

December 23, 2015 FIT Newsroom College & Campus, Home, Press, School of Business & Technology, Students, Sustainability

Sustainability has come full circle at FIT. While the college has a robust sustainability commitment that manifests itself in myriad […]

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