When Louis Comfort Tiffany built his dream estate on Long Island, he was so obsessed with the furnishings that he did everything short of inventing the glue gun. For the dining room chairs he chose ...

Six months ago, when Precision Textiles put a toe in the water to try its hand at producing personal protective equipment (PPE), the strategy was designed to keep its plant open and employees working.

Walking into ECOALF’s Berlin outpost feels like stepping into any other high-concept clothing store. Racks are filled tastefully with just enough styles and the bare concrete walls showcase a mix of ...

A new approach to smart textiles could lead to a host of new use cases and a level of durability that might make the technology much more attractive to adopt. A team led by John Volakis, director of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inside a textile plant operated by Milliken and Company, one of the largest remaining textile operators in South Carolina.

Cotton accounts for one third of fiber consumption in the textile industry, according to a 2013 global apparel fiber consumption report. However, the crop’s production requires intense labor and uses ...

SAN DIEGO, April 23, 2012 – A lot of people were skeptical when two young California-based researchers set out more than a decade ago to create a completely human-derived alternative to the synthetic ...