VDMA member companies are internationally recognised for their high‑performance production technologies, enabling advanced technical textiles for a wide range of applications – from mobility, ...

How Softmatter is revolutionizing wearable tech with seamless, user-centric smart textiles. Wearable technology has become an integral part of everyday life, woven into fitness routines, health ...

The application of artificial neural networks within textile engineering has emerged as a transformative force, harnessing advanced computational techniques to predict and refine the complex ...

The next step for fully integrated textile-based electronics to make their way from the lab to the wardrobe is figuring out how to power the garment gizmos without unfashionably toting around a solid ...

Can the university help launch a 21st-century textile boom of smart fibers and wearable electronics? That’s what the state is banking on with Gov. Charlie Baker’s announcement earlier this year of $11 ...

The city of Suzhou has a 1,000-year history of silk production, and is renowned as the epicentre of the highly prized fabric. This heritage provides a strong background for Soochow University’s unique ...

Twenty-first-century textiles, whether plastic or synthetic human skin, are changing the future of health care Twenty-first-century textiles, whether plastic or synthetic human skin, are changing the ...

In 1895, James T. Smith founded Lowell Textile School for the purpose of instruction in the theory and the practical art of textile and kindred branches of industry. Thirty-two students enrolled in ...

Researchers in Germany have just unveiled a textile-based cascade filter designed to capture microplastics ...

The word “shoddy” first came to use in 1832, referring to an early form of recycling in which old wool was shredded and spun with new wool to form a fabric. Nearly two centuries later, textile ...