Hotel Hércules repositions a block of defunct industrial employee housing into a luxurious, 40-room guesthouse for the burgeoning Compañía Cervecera Hércules. Centered around an olive grove courtyard, ...

Despite the decline of manufacturing jobs, the owners of a Schenectady-based company hope new technology will bring the art of designing and producing textiles back. Advertisement Article continues ...

Sheboygan Knitting Company merged with Cooper Manufacturing Company in 1916 and opened a new plant in Sheboygan in 1917. The new plant, touted as one of the most modern in the state, was built of ...

When he took the role of chief innovation officer of LifeBridge Health in Baltimore, Daniel Durand, MD, never imagined less than two years later the system’s executives would ask him to rapidly ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The role of textiles in the history of modern interiors and design, often unrecognized, gets the spotlight at an exhibit at the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design ...

NAHA, Japan >> Bashofu, a light, cool fabric well suited for a summer kimono, is a traditional textile of Okinawa prefecture. The production of this unique fabric relies heavily on manual labor.

Porsche is reaching into its back catalog and pulling out some of the most recognizable interior fabrics it has ever produced ...

Introduction -- "Like Minerva from the brain of Jupiter" : the invention of the factory -- "The living light" : New England textiles and visions of utopia -- "The ...

U.S. textile and apparel factories will employ nearly 350,000 people by 2015, according to Textile World, which provides news about the industry. Laws that hold employers responsible for worker safety ...