Visible light can be used to create electrodes from conductive plastics completely without hazardous chemicals. This is shown ...

The concept of clothing is under constant transformation through innovations in wearable technologies. A new revolution in this sector is in nano-engineered functional textiles, opening up vast ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria discovered rare 5,000-year-old textile fragments in Magura Cave, offering new insight into Early ...

Inside bioreactors in its new lab in London, the startup Modern Synthesis uses sugar from plant waste along with microbes to grow “microbial textiles,” which could eventually help replace both leather ...

A research team from the Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has ...

I recently had the pleasure of meeting with Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman, an adjunct associate professor at Pratt Institute as well as an author and researcher on smart textiles and wearable technologies.

Vitamin T: Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art (all images courtesy of Phaidon) Holes and tears in a dust jacket that resembles tattered linen reveal pockets of multicolored fabric underneath.

The 10th edition of Techtextil India 2025 highlighted how industry discussions are reinforcing the region’s ambition to grow ...

Winning picks include seating, textiles, and a stone-topped table inspired by Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion.

A research team has shown wearable electronic textiles (e-textiles) can be both sustainable and biodegradable. A research team led by the University of Southampton and UWE Bristol has shown wearable ...

Textiles are all the different types of cloth or fabric that we use. They can make clothes, furnishing and even buildings. Different textiles can keep us warm and dry and let us express ourselves with ...