In this Know Your Handloom edition, we take a look at the Parsi gara embroidery - a blend of cultures, reimagined for modern ...

A number of these filaments, 12 to 20, are gathered together and twisted into a yarn in the same way that cocoon silk threads are spun or thrown together.

She launched her yarn business, Twisted Fiber Art (so named by her husband, Jeff ), in 2005, and a few years later, moved it to the basement of Kean’s Store Co. in Mason.

Twisted fibers strengthen artificial muscles Three groups report polymer yarns that respond to electrical, thermal, or chemical stimuli, which may find use in robots and medical devices by Mark ...

To form the new muscles, the research team applied a polymer coating to twisted CNT yarns, as well as to inexpensive nylon, silk and bamboo yarns, creating a sheath around the yarn core.

Slum Level Federation (SLF), a minority conglomeration of women self-help groups, which is successfully running a silk yarn unit here for the past two years, seeks government support for ...

A high-tech twist has been put on the ancient art of fiber spinning, using modern materials to create ultra-strong, powerful, shape-shifting yarns. A new report describes the path to developing a ...

These extremely delicate and thin silk strands are twisted together to form yarn. “We adopted the worsted spinning method on the ruptured filaments and bypassed the reeling method to produce the ...

Need an project for some of that new yarn? Ravelry is doing an international sock swap.