Wool, wood, cotton, cocoons, coal, and petroleum are natural resources used to make fabrics. The reason each of these very different things can become fabric is that they all share a common chemistry.

Bamboo fabric, a relative newcomer to the textile world, is making waves in summer fashion for its eco-friendly production ...

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Notice the strings that are woven or knitted together to make the fabric. These strings are called yarns. Each yarn is made of many fibers twisted together. Each fiber is made of very long molecules ...

Fibers and fabrics play a large role in everyday applications. A fiber is a hair-like strand of material. They are the smallest visible unit of a fabric and are denoted by being extremely long in ...

Fabric and fiber insulations are textile materials which reduce the rate of thermal transfer between two temperatures, typically to moderate temperature fluctuations of a structure's interior. To ...