Radici Group, The LYCRA Co., and Triumph lingerie brand have created prototype garments using fibers recovered from chemical ...

A combined team of chemical and biomolecular engineers from the University of Delaware, and the Center for Plastics Innovation, both in the U.S., has developed a way to chemically separate fibers in ...

When people talk about the fabric of life, they most often mean it metaphorically. But many of the most basic materials humans touch and use everyday are made from fabrics. From bed sheets, clothing, ...

Ugandan researchers are transforming discarded banana stems into textiles, hair extensions and sanitary pads, positioning the East African nation to capitalize on growing global demand for sustainable ...

Nordic Bioproducts Group, a Finnish startup, has created a new plant-based textile fiber. The company is a spinoff from Aalto University in Finland, which created a patented technology called ...

Today, one of the largest international problems is textile waste. The United States Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that each year over 15 million tons of textile waste ends up in ...

Infinna fiber creation in wet spinning process at Espoo pilot. Just weeks after fashion’s leading textile-to-textile recycling company went bankrupt, its peer, Infinited Fiber Company (IFC), closed a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Co-Founder, Conspiracy of Love, and Good is the New Cool. Infinited Fiber Company is a supercool Finnish fashion and textile ...

Empa researcher Edith Perret is developing special fibers that can deliver drugs in a targeted manner. Treating a wound or an inflammation directly where it occurs has clear advantages: The active ...

WASHINGTON, DC — By confronting old, narrow definitions of what abstract modernist art is, Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction at the National Gallery of Art makes the case that textiles ...