**Preface to "New Research Trends for Textiles"**

The *Textiles* journal is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal, officially launched in 2020. It concerns research and innovation in the field of textile materials. This field is very broad and covers many topics. Textile materials composed of fibers linked by weaving, braiding, knitting, or sewing constitute a wide range of materials and are essential for many applications. They are both ancestral materials used since antiquity and in advanced applications, such as composites in aeronautics or the medical industry.

*Textiles*, an open-access international journal by *MDPI* (Basel, Switzerland), focuses on the broad field of textile materials and topics including, but not limited to, the following: fibers and yarns for textiles, properties, and microstructures; advances in weaving, braiding, and knitting technologies; 3D textiles; nonwovens; structure and properties of high-performance textiles; characterization and testing of textiles; fatigue, damage, and failure of textile; friction in textile materials; simulation in textiles; textile and clothing science; sustainable fibers and textiles; dyeing textiles; microbial and plant pigments for the textile industry; microbial enzymes in the textile industry; bio-polishing; bioconversion of waste fabric; microbial wastewater treatment; microbial silk; bacterial cellulose; recycling in textiles; fashion and apparel design; textile composite; preform and prepreg draping; medical textile materials; textile materials for civil engineering applications; geo-textiles; smart textiles; protective and thermal protective textiles; textile history and archeology.

In order to demonstrate the huge impact of textile research and technology in the world, the publisher, the Editorial Board, and myself decided to invite contributions, feature papers, from key world-class researchers, which were collected in a single Special Issue entitled 'New World Research Trends for Textiles', from May 2021 to May 2022.

In total, 36 papers were submitted. These 24 papers can be roughly subdivided into four parts: functional textiles; process and modelling; control; and consumers and behavior.

I, as Editor, trust that all readers of this Special Issue reprint will enjoy the contents, and I would like to deeply thank all the wonderful authors who contributed; Prof. Philippe Boisse, Editor-in-Chief of *Textiles*; the numerous reviewers; and the whole team at *MDPI* (editing, production, website, etc.).

> **Laurent Dufoss´e** *Editor*
