Picking up the Threads is an effort to map the supplier relationships of textile mills to fashion brands. The project has created a centralized database of textile mills that links them to the brands and retailers they supply.
This project is part of a wider push by organizations to shine a light on the more hidden parts of apparel supply chains and better understand where companies are at when it comes to disclosing their production sites beyond the first tier of the supply chain.
Our research used publicly available sources to create a preliminary list of supply chain relationships between textile mills and brands.
A full spreadsheet with the mill-brand relationships, industry initiative memberships, company identifiers (OpenCorporates and Open Apparel Registry) can be accessed here.
See the full list of identified mills here.