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March 8, 2014
…stents. Not surprisingly, textiles hold an important place in these developments. Flexible, versatile and adaptable, textiles can be engineered to “become” skin, tissue, tendons and arteries. Our lead feature in…
March 8, 2014
…Five students from Sweden’s School of Textiles, University of Borås, lit up the Furniture Fair in Stockholm, Sweden, this February with their experiments demonstrating the integration of light in…
March 8, 2014
…what we have. This is truly creating smart textiles. “Simply put, this machine gives us vertical, horizontal, thickness, and diagonal controls of fabrics. The industry has just started to embrace…
February 7, 2014
…A Danish design firm rethinks how responsive textiles can adapt to context, moods or environmental changes. by Michel Guglielmi, co-founder, Diffus Design Diffus has always been committed to combining…
February 7, 2014
…Textile converter Brand & Oppenheimer Co. Inc. (B&O) has acquired the assets of Performance Textiles Inc., high-performance fabrics supplier. The acquisition was sponsored by Praesidian Capital, which is an…
January 30, 2014
…Smart textiles containing electronic materials have been talked about for more than a decade. The lack of textile characteristics, such as drapability and wash durability, has deterred the greater…
January 11, 2014
…product called TexTales under the Out There tab. This young entrepreneur is funding her interactive textiles with a KickStarter campaign. Smaller projects can, conceivably, do this; larger-scale research, probably not,…
January 11, 2014
…Creating textiles that harvest energy lighten the warfighter’s load. U.S. Army studies show that a fully equipped soldier carries between 50 and 120 pounds of equipment, depending on the…
January 11, 2014
…more flexible, and robust anti-counterfeiting and anti-diversion protection for textiles and apparel, including military protective wear. Fibers, yarn, fabric, garments and labels are marked with unique, secure and enduring SigNature…
January 11, 2014
…A recent article about smart textiles and wearable intelligence posted by Centexbel on their website (www.centexbel.be) asks, “Why is the industry still facing challenges?” The article notes that Flemish…
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