Margrethe Odgaard, whose new textiles will be featured at TEFAF Maastricht, aims to define the distinctive hues preferred in ...

To raise awareness about environmental issues and provide a way to keep warm without turning on the heating, Dutch design studio Raw Color has created the Temperature Textiles collection, which is ...

Fashion and textiles may be among the last places you’d expect to see innovation. But college researchers in Florida have figured out a revolutionary fabric that can alter its color with a mild change ...

The desire to apply color to a surface is intrinsic to human nature and humans have searched for natural sources of color since prehistoric times. They found out that some minerals could be ground to ...

UK researchers have created the first smart fabric that can change shape and color in response to two different stimuli: heat and electricity. The development opens up new possibilities in various ...

This week, the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC) hosted “An Evening of Color” in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event celebrated the Science History Institute's exhibit ...

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Chemists have developed a way to extract natural dyes from ancient textiles while preserving the unique chemical characteristics of each dye. The technique enables the researchers to then identify the ...