The European market for smart fabrics and interactive textiles (SFIT) represents about 300 million euro today and is growing at a yearly rate of about 20%. These smart textiles are used in 'clothes ...

Could a flat piece of fabric hold a 3D shape, the way paper does in origami? Aiming to find out, researchers from the Cornell ...

Research published by the United Nations Environment Programme in March showed that 92 million tons of textile scrap is produced globally each year. Meanwhile, Ellen MacArthur Foundation research ...

A piece of fabric that almost seems to erase light rather than reflect it now exists, and it starts as soft white wool. When ...

Olivier David (Institut Lavoisier / Paris Saclay), Aziza Gril-Mariotte (Musée des Tissus, Lyon / Université Aix), Raphaël Morera (CNRS-EHESS), Corinne Mühlemann (University of Bern), Helen Wyld ...

Coated in a conductive polymer material, this half-inch square of fabric contains an array of six rectangular solar cells. Photo by Jeff Miller/UW-Madison For years, fabric designer Marianne Fairbanks ...

Textile manufacturers have begun to use nanomaterials in their products. The unique properties of nanoparticles and nanofibers mean they can be used to design fabrics with excellent mechanical ...

Non-destructive and immediate, FibreSENSE would allow textile workers to do with 100% accuracy what they used to do with a guess.

Over the last decade, every art fair seems to bring with it an increasing amount of fabric-based works. Frieze Seoul, whose second edition took place in September, was no exception—yet, with a rich ...

Norse sails loomed off the shores of the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, along the northeastern coast of Great Britain, on June 8, 793. The seafaring invaders sacked the island’s undefended monastery. The ...