While it takes an exorbitant amount of resources to create recyclable textiles — such as 700 gallons of water to produce one ...

Textile Exchange's recent The Future of Synthetics report suggests the domination of synthetic materials in global fibre production since mid-1990 has contributed to climate change. The report ...

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And now we also make synthetic textiles out of fossil fuels like oil ... By swapping unwanted stuff with friends or donating to a second-hand shop. Or by turning our old clothes into something ...

Known for its unmatched relative strength and flexibility, which could find uses in novel textiles, spider silk has long eluded efficient synthetic replication, in part because it has been ...

The invention of synthetic dyes Natural dyes represented the most common way to color textiles until the 19 th century, when scientific progress showed that color was intrinsically related to the ...