Shady Side Farm in Holland hosted its annual open house event where 69 sheep were shorn in just over three hours using a ...

The oldest blue textile in Anatolia has been found in Turkey, preserved for 4,000 years by a surprising accidental fire.

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At the heart of this manufacturing shift is the China Automatic Servo-Driven Multi-Axial Warp Knitting Machine, a specialized ...

Researchers at South Dakota State University have tried different methods of using wool as a mulch on pepper patches. This ...

Fabric made from cotton-like fancy yarns with a soft, voluminous structure for textile surfaces with a natural, cotton-like appearance.As demand grows for textured and differentia ...

The Lenzing Group and Obertshausen, Germany-based KARL MAYER, are collaborating to improve processing of TENCEL™ Lyocell and Modal fibers with Micro Technology on warp knitting machines, advancing ...

If you care about sustainability, buying something as simple as a pillowcase can feel surprisingly hard. Search for “sustainable sheets” and you’re flooded with familiar and tantalising promises: ...

Some ways of doing things are old … very old. As in very, very old.

A decade or two ago, people fretted to Jason Wurst that textile arts might die out. Jason, the son of Rocking Horse Farm Knitshop founder Carole Wurst, can now decidedly say that crafts aren’t going ...

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