-- Companies announce pilot project to explore first-of-its-kind approach to more quickly and efficiently convert yarn directly into garments -- The pilot project directly addresses concerns about ...

Far from being drudgery, weaving without a machine is, for many Indians, a route to emancipation and financial independence In the West, hand-weaving is a relic for museums, crafts fairs, and people ...

The commercialization of clothing-type wearable robots has taken a significant step forward with the development of equipment that can continuously and automatically weave ultra-thin shape memory ...

“Spread tow” refers to the practice of spreading a fiber into a thinner, flatter reinforcement, for example a 5-mm wide 12K high-strength (HS) carbon fiber tow is commonly spread to a 25-mm width tape ...

In composite structures, the reduction in material properties due to delamination between plies has long been a major concern. Key properties such as compression strength-after-impact are particularly ...