The piña cloth is a light fabric popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is unique to the Philippines and has been used to make traditional garments for centuries. The fabric is ...

How chemists weave 2-D molecular fabric. Credit: Credit: Adapted from Stuart Jantzen/Biocinematics Chemists link molecules together all the time, but interlacing them like threads in fabric presents a ...

The textiles women produced made our civilization what it is. By Virginia Postrel Ms. Postrel is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and the author of “The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the ...

Smart fabric stocks include firms that manufacture and market textiles. These textiles are embedded with such components as sensors, actuators, and electronic textiles. These textiles have many uses ...

QALINBAFAN, Afghanistan, January 2 (UNHCR) - There's an old saying in Central Asia: "Water is a Turkmen's life, a horse is his wings, and a carpet is his soul." Historically a nomadic, desert-dwelling ...