Despite their immense potential, the road to translating the superlative properties of individual carbon nanotubes into high-performance macroscopic fibers and yarns has been fraught with challenges.

Spider silk is prized for its strength. But spiders don’t make enough of the tough fibers to harvest for industrial uses. So researchers and biotech firms have turned to bioengineering silk with ...

­When making clothes before the 19th century, one important tool was the spinning wheel. The spinning wheel helped improve the task of turning fabric into thread that, again, would be used to make ...

BANGOR, Maine ― For Jodi Clayton, owner of One Lupine Fiber Arts yarn and fiber shop in Bangor, it was her lifelong knitting habits that led her to discover a love for the ancient craft of spinning ...