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 yo... |
7 May 2008
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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... |
18 April 2008
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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... |
24 March 2008
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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 ... |
14 February 2008
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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 f... |
10 May 2007
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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 p... |
17 March 2007
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