Cotton
Turning brewery gunk and forest junk into something good
20 Feb 2026
Hops from a Wellington brewery, cotton offcuts from a fashion label and forestry slash has turned Matt Welton into a bit of a Heath Robinson. His first job was collecting scrap metal in London's East… Audio
Artist Fleur Woods on bringing flora to life through thread
15 Nov 2023
Some artists use paint. Others pencil or plaster. Fleur Woods' chosen medium is wool, cotton and beads. Audio
Jean testing: ethical cotton
4 Feb 2017
Cotton has one of the most tangled and opaque consumer supply chains in the world, says James Hayward of Applied DNA Sciences. He's using genetic barcodes to introduce more traceability to the system.
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