It's happened to the best of us: We throw a new cotton shirt into the dryer without thinking, and voilà — we now have a shirt fit for a toddler. Cotton is susceptible to this kind of laundry blunder ...

One of the most fascinating bits of research in this area is being done by a group at Cornell University's Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory. They've developed a means of actually making transistors ...

Sometimes a comparison is more revealing than just a fact. India grows far more cotton than the US. But while cotton in the US is grown by large corporations on farms of vast acreage and harvested by ...

Four years ago, Ritika Mittal could no longer ignore her inner voice, which had been nagging her to move out of her comfort zone and do more. Her zone was comfortable enough. She had left Jalalabad, ...

I created this 3D weaving machineRoyal College of ArtOluwaseyi Sosanya, a Nigerian American who graduated from the Royal College of Fine Arts (London Royal Institute of Art). I made this machine as ...

Centuries of craftsmanship and artistry are woven into India’s traditional textiles, revealing a rich cultural legacy without ...

India is the largest producer of cotton and the crop is of significant importance to the economy. Closely woven into the cotton story is the fate of over 6 million small and marginal farmers who plant ...

Generation-old family tradition of cotton weaving still continues through a cooperative of pre-Independence era at Padmanabhpur village of Ganjam district in Odisha. This is evident from the ...

Kendrapada: Are you a fan of Gopalpur’s tussar saris? If so, then you might have to bid adieu to it or look for an alternative in a few years’ time for many silk weavers in the Jajpur district’s ...