As soon as I learned to walk, my grandmother had a sewing needle in my hand. In her opinion, keeping my hands busy with tiny stitches was a better alternative to making mud pies in the backyard or ...

Creating Zulu dolls from recycled fabric is an innovative way to preserve cultural heritage while promoting sustainability ...

Sudō Reiko and Nuno, Vitrine (photo courtesy the Center for Hertiage Arts & Textile Hong Kong) Growing up in a small country town in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, Sudō Reiko always looked forward to the ...

If you’re like me, you struggle with how to get rid of the clothes in the back of your closet you no longer wear. I try to donate items to the nearest thrift store to give them another life. However, ...

One might call it karmic capitalism. Rather than compete, business owners who belong to the Carolina Textile District refer customers to each other. Take Molly Hemstreet, general manager of ...

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?” ...

A new type of strong and flexible yarn with practical electronic properties has been made by researchers in Australia and Ireland. Spun from graphene oxide, the yarn has the highest capacitance ever ...

We are producing more textiles than ever before: worldwide, well over one hundred million tons of textiles are manufactured ...

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 ...