Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Linen

Gerard Ortiz

Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Photos: Retailers, Getty Linen is my favorite fabric. It’s soft, breathable, and looks great even wrinkled. Growing up, I was taught by my mom to avoid synthetic fabrics; she’d check the tag of every item and treasured linen above all. As an adult, I still check the […]

Natural Fabric Dyes are Transforming Fashion

Gerard Ortiz

(FashionStock.com / Shutterstock.com) Consider a stroll down Fifth Avenue during New York City’s style 7 days and you can expect to see styles demonstrating off the full spectrum of superior fashion’s flashy hues, models, and patterns. Style is a lot more than just apparel,  it truly is an expression of […]

New Polar Bear-Inspired Fabric Is 30{05995459f63506108ab777298873a64e11d6b9d8e449f5580a59254103ec4a63} Lighter Than Cotton and Far Warmer

Gerard Ortiz

Engineers at the College of Massachusetts Amherst have produced a synthetic textile encouraged by polar bear fur, which proficiently conducts light-weight and traps heat, earning it effective in cold environments. A team of engineers from UMass Amherst has established a bilayered material that is 30{05995459f63506108ab777298873a64e11d6b9d8e449f5580a59254103ec4a63} lighter than cotton however supplies […]