Especially for silk, if you want to preserve its smoothness and comfort for longer. While it’s tricky to wash delicate fabrics, following the right steps can make the cleaning process easy and ...

When compared weight-for-weight, spider silk has a higher tensile strength than steel yet is almost as elastic as rubber. Leading manmade fibers such as nylon are less than half as tough. What’s more, ...

From there, you can build a comprehensive plan that ensures your silk pillowcase is ready to work the night shift—so you don’t have to. Not all silk types should be washed using the same process.

It sounds like something out of a comic book: a material that shoots from a needle and solidifies into a fiber capable of lifting objects 80 times its own weight. But we’re not talking fiction here.

It’s straight out of a comic book: a shot of liquid silk quickly hardens into a sticky, strong fiber that can lift objects 80 times heavier. Sound familiar? Researchers have described the Spider ...

The study by the National Textile University explored ways to make banana fibers softer and more suitable for textiles Researchers found that using specific enzyme combinations was more effective than ...

The purpose of the research is to prepare a silk-fibroin nano-fiber solution for potential applications in tissue engineering. Using a degumming process, pure silk fibroin protein is extracted from ...

Cellulose fibers have also been found to convincingly replicate silk’s properties. Virginia-based textile recycling body Circ’s proprietary hydrothermal process separates polyester-cotton ...

The process begins with selecting the finest banana plants, typically grown organically. The banana leaves are carefully processed to extract delicate fibers ... and feel like silk products ...