About Textile.org
Textile Academy: an open textile engineering school
We are building the first free, high-quality, open textile engineering program so labs, founders, and hobbyists can master smart fabrics without gatekeepers.
We give away what we learn: machines you can fork, stitch recipes you can remix, and a community that publishes real manufacturing data.
Mission
Accelerate textile hardware innovation with open tutorials, field-tested machines, and a community that shares the full bill of materials.
Aspiration
Become the launchpad for the next generation of textile engineers—regardless of geography, budget, or institutional access.
How we operate
Curriculum, machines, and community run in sync so you can move from idea to deployed textile systems quickly.
Open curriculum
Every course, from fiber science to soft robotics, is authored transparently so you can download the briefs, assessments, and lab demos without fees.
Hardware + labs
We document modifiable embroidery rigs, knitting machines, and composites workcells so you can reproduce the builds in your studio.
Community intelligence
Forums, live critiques, and open data sets surface what experimenters are actually shipping—and which toolchains are production ready.
Open tutorials
Tutorials that read like lab notebooks
Each guide pairs schematics, machine settings, yarn and fiber specs, and QC data so you can see exactly how the prototype behaved.
Community insight
Shared intelligence from every cohort
Members publish wins, warnings, and material substitutions so the entire ecosystem levels up together.
Our goals at Textile Academy
Free access to premium tutorials, schematics, and code repositories.
Real-world validation: every guide is tested with partner labs, not just drafted in theory.
Active facilitation so members can publish insights, run office hours, and share manufacturing obstacles.
Global openness: textile engineering is an international community, so expect to meet collaborators from every region and share resources across borders.
Shape the 2026 cohort
Help us prototype the textile future
Tell us what you want to learn, build, or teach next so we can prioritize the right cohorts, tooling kits, and collaborations.
Join the waitlist