Textile labeling
reimagined
Permanent textile labels for trust, traceability, and sustainable lifecycle management.
Many of the colors we see in nature, such as butterfly wings and opals, are not the result of portions of the visible spectrum being absorbed by pigmentation or dyes, but rather the result of light being reflected and refracted due to structural arrangements of micro/nanoscale matter.
Inspired by Nature
Our technology leverages these naturally inspired material structures through a novel breakthrough in utilizing polymers to engineer photonic crystals directly into textile fibers through a scalable manufacturing process.
Our development
Fibarcode's technology emerged from joint research at the University of Michigan and MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Defense Fabric Discovery Center. Backed by the U.S. Department of Energy (via Oak Ridge National Lab), Michigan's Great Lakes environmental initiative, and NC State's textile engineering program, we've been advancing fabric-based identification since our 2024 launch. Today, our Knoxville-based team is led by Dr. Brian Iezzi, the University of Michigan PhD researcher who co-invented this innovation, delivering the first circular tracking solution through patented fabric-embedded data to the textile industry.
Our Partners
