Sea silk has one of fashion’s strangest origin stories. It starts as a mollusk’s anchor thread and ends up looking like spun ...

Imagine a sweater that powers electronics to monitor your health or charge your mobile phone while running. This development faces challenges because of the lack of materials that both conduct ...

Dan Widmaier is not really a fashion guy — "by any stretch of the imagination," he clarifies — but that hasn't stopped the chemist from taking on the apparel industry. His company, Bolt Threads, has ...

A hat made from Rambouillet wool is a perfectly nice hat. The fiber, shorn from a Rambouillet sheep, is fine and soft. Not at all scratchy. “They call it the American merino,” says Dan Widmaier, the ...

A 1898 sample of viscose rayon, made from wood pulp, marked a revolution in textiles, offering a luxurious silk alternative.

With exceptional skills and deft hands, a group of youth masterfully weaves the cover "Kiswa" of the holy Kaaba using threads ...

A research group, led by Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, presents an ordinary silk thread, coated with a conductive plastic material, that shows promising properties for turning textiles ...