A family-owned weaving business in Pennsylvania that started out making silk hat bands in the 1920s is helping NASA build key components for the Orion spacecraft, which could help carry humans to Mars ...

Textiles makers may well have been among the first math wizards. Many of these “wizards” live in what is today Laos. Various weaving methods have been devised to design and store intricate patterns.

horizontal threads over vertical ones, hasn’t changed much since the invention of the loom. What’s new is the way some textile designers are changing the face of fabric: They are rethinking the way ...