Textiles

These Soviet Textiles Are Actually Propaganda Tools From The 1920s

The Soviets used many methods to spread their vision of communism: movies, art, science fiction novels . . . and even textile patterns. These gorgeous textiles, created in the 1920s, show how the communist ideal was woven into the fabric of everyday life in Russia during the early days of the Revolution. Workers (via Koroleni)…

io9 Vincze Miklós Feb 5

Feathered costumes change colors in different climates

Textile chemist Lauren Bowker develops inks that respond to various changes in the climate, giving invisible shifts in the wearer’s environment a visible manifestation and giving the wearer a new look from microclimate to microclimate. While studying at the Manchester School of Art, Bowker developed PdCl2, a Carbon emission sensing ink, before going on to…

io9 Lauren Davis Dec 15

Bio-artist colors textiles with deadly bacteria and antibiotics

Would you cuddle up with a quilt stained with MRSA? Artist Anna Dumitriu challenges the relationship between humans and bacteria by staining textiles with superbugs. As part of her artist’s residency on the UK Clinical Research Consortium Project “Modernising Medical Microbiology” at the University of Oxford, Dumitriu has been developing her MRSA Quilt and Infective…

io9 Lauren Davis Nov 24

When Did Humans Start Wearing Clothes?

Determining exactly when humans began wearing clothes is a challenge, largely because early clothes would have been things like animal hides, which degrade rapidly. Therefore, there’s very little archaeological evidence that can be used to determine the date that clothing started being worn. There have been several different theories based on what archaeologists have been…

Tech News EMILY UPTON - TODAYIFOUNDOUT.COM Sep 12

Crape

Crape or crepe (Anglicized versions of the Fr. crêpe ) is a silk, wool, or polyester fabric of a gauzy texture, having a peculiar crisp or crimpy appearance. (The word crape is also used as an Anglicized spelling of crêpe (pancake).) Silk crape is woven of hard spun silk yarn in the gum or natural…

Tech News Matt Novak Jun 18

Textiles: Made in USA

In this series, photographer Christopher Payne ventures into various textile factories to uncover industrial architecture and document historical textile-making processes. Image source: chrispaynephoto.com

Tech News Matt Novak Jun 18

Using viruses to dye your clothes

People who still rely on public laundromats live in terror of bleach. If one person spills their bleach over a counter, or overloads the machine, an entire wardrobe is wiped out. But someday clothing could be entirely bleach-resistant. It won’t be dyed with pigments. It will be dyed with viruses. Most modern clothing is dyed…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Oct 21

DNA Proves Your Fancy Suit Isn’t a Fake

Wool from Yorkshire in Northern England is so fabulous that bad guys want to counterfeit it. So wool merchants are shooting it up with proprietary DNA to prove it’s the real thing. Applied DNA Sciences provides the anti-counterfeiting service, which involves a proprietary method of injecting the fabric with a unique botanical DNA during manufacturing.…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski Sep 21

Reporter Takes Box Cutter to the Wrist In the Name of Shark Suit Testing

A material that keeps you safe from a Great White chomp is cool enough. But what you’re really going to want to watch for here is the willingness of KFMB reporter Jeff Zevely to take a box cutter across his thinly protected veins. [KFMB]

Tech News Brian Barrett Feb 25

A Cloth Stronger than Kevlar, Made by a Million Spiders

Researchers have long known the incredible properties of silk spun by spiders — incredibly strong, but elastic. Now a textile expert has woven the first cloth made entirely of spider silk. The catch? It took one million spiders to make. Textile expert Simon Peers undertook the daunting project to create the eleven by four foot…

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 24

Wanted Ditches Unrealistic Costumes, But Includes The Destiny Loom

In a move to gain street cred for his characters, Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov did away with the kooky superhero outfits from Mark Millar’s original graphic novel. Yet he chose to include a totally bizarre plot device, the loom of life. In a new batch of Wanted pictures, you can see both Wesley Gibson (James…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jun 5

Interactive Textiles Make Your Lack of Basketball Skills More Audible

At first glance, interactive textiles that memorize the motions of a perfect shot in basketball seem like they’d be amazingly beneficial. I mean, hey, if I could wear some fancy shirt that would force my arm to always shoot well, I’d be in the NBA! Unfortunately, the interactive textiles that were developed in Australia for…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Apr 4

Furore, a Fur Substitute, is Next-Gen Polyester

Rayon and polyester better step aside. There’s a new synthetic fabric in town, and it’s softer, lighter, and more flexible than any of its predecessors. Designers Yvonne Laurysen and Erik Mantel collaborated to create furore, a porous material reminiscent of expanded metal. It comes long and bushy or short and smooth, and can be dyed…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA Mar 27

These Soviet Textiles Are Actually Propaganda Tools From The 1920s

Feathered costumes change colors in different climates

Bio-artist colors textiles with deadly bacteria and antibiotics

When Did Humans Start Wearing Clothes?

Crape

Textiles: Made in USA

Using viruses to dye your clothes

DNA Proves Your Fancy Suit Isn’t a Fake

Reporter Takes Box Cutter to the Wrist In the Name of Shark Suit Testing

A Cloth Stronger than Kevlar, Made by a Million Spiders

Wanted Ditches Unrealistic Costumes, But Includes The Destiny Loom

Interactive Textiles Make Your Lack of Basketball Skills More Audible

Furore, a Fur Substitute, is Next-Gen Polyester

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