About the Conference
About the Conference
Welcome to the International Textile and Colour Conference 2025.
This international conference will focus on strategies, technologies and innovations to enable the sustainable development of textile and colour industries across associated supply chains. It will cover important aspects of product design, fibres and raw materials, yarn, fabric and garment manufacturing, as well as robotics, coloration, digitalisation, machine learning, colour technology, waste management, reuse, recycling, and the creation of viable circular economies.
This is an important opportunity for researchers and industry leaders working in the global north and south, as well as policymakers and NGOs, to explore creative solutions to the practical challenges of sustainable development across textile and colour industries, and to learn more about the most recent progress.
The conference is designed to encourage open discussion and international collaboration and will bring together business leaders and entrepreneurs from the UK and other countries, as well as leading academic researchers with expertise in environmental science, design, business and economics, science and technology.
This inaugural conference follows the 150th Anniversary of the Yorkshire College of Science and the subsequent development of the Departments of Textile Industries, and of Tinctorial Chemistry and Dyeing, supported by the Clothworkers’ Company, which became founding academic disciplines of the University of Leeds.
Over many years, textile and colour science activities helped establish Leeds as an international centre of excellence in these important fields, which continues today through LITAC (Leeds Institute of Textiles and Colour) and the School of Design at the University of Leeds.
Conference Topics will include:
- Textile chemistry and materials
- Textile product design
- Fibre, yarn, fabric and final product/garment manufacturing
- Characterisation and measurement
- Smart textiles and composites
- Digitalisation
- Robotics and manufacturing innovation
- Data science, and AI technologies
- Sustainable textile supply chains
- Advanced waste management: collection & sorting, recycling, reuse and circular economy development
- Colour science and technology
- Innovative colour communication for fashion
- Total colour appearance measurement and perception for fabrics and garments
- Colour forecasting technologies
Nexus
The ITCC 2025 conference will take place in Nexus at the University of Leeds. Nexus is an innovation-led business hub, located on the University campus.
Nexus acts as a gateway to research and innovation at the University, providing a leading environment for collaboration and partnership, serving as a hub for the local innovation community as well as national and international organisations looking to innovate, be more productive and grow:
Nexus
Discovery Way
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 3AA
The building is a short distance from Leeds city centre, accessible by various means of transport.
LITAC
LITAC is a collaborative research institute bringing together multi-disciplinary academic expertise in design, technology, science, and engineering from across the campus to tackle some of industry's biggest challenges.
Founded in 2021, LITAC is the result of significant co-investment by The Clothworkers’ Company and the School of Design, University of Leeds.
The School of Design is an interdisciplinary School bringing together expertise from a range of design and technology specialisms. Creation and innovation are at the heart of both the teaching and research aims, and as a School, it develops new design ideas and provide solutions to issues faced in industry and society.
LITAC sits within the School of Design and has an expertise that is built on a history of nearly 150 years of research in textile technology and colour science, as it works together with industry, charities and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
