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 ...

Seated on the stone floor of a medieval fortress in Italy's Tuscan hills, students rip thin, one-inch strips of fabric. They ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, MIT researchers unveiled a line of “smart clothes” that are able to track your every physical movement. Literally. Now, in an unrelated research effort, scientists at Fudan ...

Keel Labs turns seaweed into Kelsun fiber for sustainable clothing, using 70 times less water than cotton while biodegrading ...

Two American companies try to make U.S. textiles in a global economy. March 2, 2011 — -- As we searched far and wide across this country for American-made products, we found one industry ...

If you’ve been to a Broadway production of The Lion King, you’ve seen Joan Morris‘ textiles. Her hand-dyed fabrics transform the ensemble cast in Act 2 — during the “Can You Feel the Love Tonight?” ...

Learn how to make gifts for family, friends and pets with Annabel Wrigley’s easy-to-follow instructions in We Love to Sew Gifts (Fun Stitch Studio, 2015). From sewing machine basics to embellishments, ...