Patrik Lundström is pleased with his new pair of Levi’s 501s. “The touch and feel is exactly the same as your cotton jeans,” he says. Lundström is CEO of Renewcell, a Swedish start-up that has created ...

Shopping for a suit can feel like learning an entirely new language. You go in looking for a simple two-piece, and you wind up trying to decipher what “half-canvassed” means and wondering whether your ...

You’ve probably looked at the tags on your clothes or bedding and tried to make sense of what it all means. These tags have a long list of terms and pictures that may look familiar but also confusing ...

WASHINGTON, DC — When you think of textiles in museums, you inevitably imagine old things: musty rooms, faded colors, grandiose tapestries or thread-bare fragments, and fussy, protective installations ...

Colorful printed pattern of abstract flowers and swirls on a textile. High-resolution color patterns can be printed directly onto cotton using pigment inks rather than dyes to reduce the use of water ...

New textiles change shape when they heat up, giving designers a wide range of new options. In addition to offering adjustable aesthetics, responsive smart fabrics could also help monitor people’s ...

Digital fabric printing is gaining a strong foothold in the Yangtze River Delta region, a hub for textile production and exports in China. This new mode of printing, which uses inkjet technology to ...