Flowery Summer Trends
	This summer, it's all about vibrant colors and bold prints that won't allow you to fade into the gray, heat-swooning background of understated, muted shades. Purple, red, green or olive – the summer of 2008 is all about these and so much more. Two types of print that should definitely find their way into your closet are the botanic, floral one and the fabrics that have the appearance of a work-of-art canvas. In other words ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2008, 03:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Bamboo Silk Could Be the Textile of the Future
	You rather associate bamboo with exotic furniture, but the textiles of the future could be bamboo-made. A new research carried out at the Colorado State University and presented at the 235th national meeting of the American Chemical Society shows that bamboo textiles protect against harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation, having anti-bacterial properties. Bamboo clothing is already common in Japan, China, India and other Asian cou ... [read more >>]
	18 April 2008, 04:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Shroud of Turin: Hoax Against Reality
	For over 7 centuries, the tightly woven linen strip, displaying the vague image of a bearded man, has been worshiped as the burial shroud of Jesus. Texts signal the existence of the shroud since the first century. Two decades ago, radiocarbon dating showed that the Shroud of Turin had been just a medieval hoax. It is a morbid interest mixing science and religion. And the religious part does not want to give up. Now, the Oxford team that ma ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 05:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intelligent Nanotech Clothing Produces Energy While You're Moving
	One day, your shirt could be a power plant as well. Intelligent nanotech fabrics could harvest energy from motion to charge power portable electronics, based on the piezoelectric effect. The new material has been developed and described in the journal "Nature" by a team led by Zhong Lin Wang, at Georgia Institute of Technology. The piezoelectric effect takes place when pressure is applied to certain matters with cry ... [read more >>]
	14 February 2008, 03:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A 2,700 Years Old Fabric and the Troyan War
	A natural fabric is impossible to be preserved: being organic, in just a few years at most, bacteria decompose the material. In fact, all that is organic (wood, leather, paper) is out of archaeologists' reach. That's why Greek archaeologists were very surprised to discover a rare 2,700-year-old piece of fabric inside a cylindrical burial copper urn imitating the complex cremation of soldiers, described in Homer� ... [read more >>]
	10 May 2007, 05:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Smart Fabrics Measure Your Pulse, Breathe, Temperature and Athletic Performances
	Soon, smart fabrics will tell how you cope with combat situations or sport performances. The new fabric designed by New Zealand firm Zephyr offers information on heart beat, skin temperature, posture, activity and breathing rate with the simple worn over the skin. The new fabric could allow athletes to assess their performance by measuring in an extremely simple way their physiological reactions. Zephir's products that can ... [read more >>]
	17 March 2007, 09:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia