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When we think about engineering and computer science, textiles may not come to mind first. Yet woven forms can be extremely complex and are useful in many scientific applications in addition to being ...

The city of Suzhou has a 1,000-year history of silk production, and is renowned as the epicentre of the highly prized fabric. This heritage provides a strong background for Soochow University’s unique ...

In just three minutes, the laser printing approach can produce a 10x10 cm smart textile patch that's waterproof, stretchable and easily integrated with solar or other sources of power. The next ...

A single strand of newly developed fiber has the flexibility of cotton and the electric conductivity of the polymer, polyaniline. The new material has shown good potential for wearable e-textiles. The ...

Reels of wool sit in a storage room. When Forever 21 declared bankruptcy this past fall, some saw it as a “tipping point” for the fast fashion industry. The brand’s cheap, trendy clothing options and ...

We expect that our clothing won’t tear or fade after one wear and its dyes won’t bleed in the wash. But confidence in our garments shouldn’t be taken for granted—we owe much to an oft-overlooked field ...

In 2022, LaRhea Pepper, then-CEO of Textile Exchange, warned attendees in Colorado Springs about the dangers of succumbing to “carbon tunnel vision.” She was citing the researcher Jan Konietzko, who ...

Synthetic dyes made fashion more vivid, like this hot pink miniskirt suit, designed by Ben Zuckerman in 1964. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would ...

Scientists have uncovered an extensive fabric collection from the era of Kings David and Solomon in an ancient copper mine located deep in Israel’s Arava Valley. This is the first discovery of ...