In 1900, Warren Clay Coleman was considered “the richest Black man in America” after opening the first Black-owned and -operated textile factory in the United States, which still stands today ...

Yet textile recycling has largely been limited to turning old clothes into simple products ... was put into operation in 2019 and the large factory opened in Sundsvall three years later.

It was one of two textile manufacturers that she visited on Tuesday. After Leeds, Kate headed around 84 miles west to Lancaster to another factory to see another heritage textile company ...