Announcing INTERWeuVEN
INTERWeuVEN, a new EU Horizon (Textiles of the Future partnership) project coordinated by Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), has officially launched to develop on-demand textile-form fabrication systems for the textile and fashion sector, aiming to reduce textile overproduction and waste in Europe. The project brings together 16 partners across 8 countries, and runs from September 2026 to August 2030 with total funding of €5million.
INTERWeuVEN leverages EU’s existing Jacquard loom infrastructure. Photography: Anouk Moerman for Secrid
The textile and clothing industry's most intractable problems are not a lack of sustainable materials or good intentions – it is structural overproduction and waste. INTERWeuVEN responds by developing Textile-Form Weaving (TFW): an approach that simultaneously creates woven textile structure and product form, eliminating cutting and sewing, enabling zero-waste garment production at microfactory scale within high-wage European economies.
The project works across the full conditions for adoption. It develops AI-assisted design tools and digital interfaces that make TFW accessible to industry designers; investigates the systems that determine whether new manufacturing models can take hold – business models, digital product passports, lifecycle analysis, and policy frameworks; and tests everything through Exploratory Labs and Industry Pilots at Test Sites across the UK, Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden. The goal is not just prototypes and examples, but also a model: Local Automated Design-Manufacturing as a Service, locally anchored, digitally integrated, and built for the realities of European textile production.
“The textile industry's overproduction problem isn't going to be solved by better intentions. INTERWeuVEN starts from the making – from what becomes possible when you design textile structure and product form together, on demand, at the scale of a local microfactory. That's where the system actually changes.”
Holly McQuillan, INTERWeuVEN Project Coordinator
Textile-form woven trousers. Photography: Anouk Moerman for Secrid
INTERWeuVEN has received funding from the European Union under grant agreement No 101294237. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or HaDEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
