TWO RIVERS - Tucked away in a corner of the city is a longtime business that has been spinning yarns for years. Since 1923, three generations of the Webster family have been working at this Crescent ...

AeroLas GmbH (Munich, Germany) has developed a spinning process by which discontinuous filaments of carbon fiber can be combined with a thermoplastic fiber to create a yarn material that has potential ...

Twenty-five years ago, Ni Meijuan earned $19 a month working the spinning machines at a vast textile factory in the Chinese city of Hangzhou. Now at the Keer Group’s cotton mill in South Carolina, ...

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Almost every adult is able to recall wearing a scratchy woollen jumper at some point during their younger days. Fortunately the landscape of the wool industry has moved on. On-farm sheep breeding ...

A researcher powers an array of light-emitting diodes by rubbing the triboelectric textile. Credit: Junyi Zhai and Zhong Lin Wang A researcher powers an array of light-emitting diodes by rubbing the ...