This collection of fabric flower tutorials shares 29 creative ways to turn fabric into beautiful blooms. From quick no-sew ...

Your old yoga pants are a recycling nightmare. A startup called Return to Vendor found a new solution—by redesigning the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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SAN DIEGO, April 23, 2012 – A lot of people were skeptical when two young California-based researchers set out more than a decade ago to create a completely human-derived alternative to the synthetic ...