Every year, the U.S. generates 17 million tons of textile waste that ends up in landfills according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Out of the total amount, 11.3 million tons goes straight to ...

ECOHEAL presents an integrated sleep environment concept combining grounding textiles and tourmaline-based materials ...

How do you build the next generation of natural performance materials without pretending cotton or synthetics will disappear?

I recently had the pleasure of meeting with Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman, an adjunct associate professor at Pratt Institute as well as an author and researcher on smart textiles and wearable technologies.

The fabric of the future won't be just plain chiffon, silk or cotton. Instead electroluminescent material, microprocessors and LEDs may be woven together with clothing fibers to create smart textiles.

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. This weekend, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum will showcase its world-renowned fabric collection with an ...

Vitamin T: Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art (all images courtesy of Phaidon) Holes and tears in a dust jacket that resembles tattered linen reveal pockets of multicolored fabric underneath.