Imagine a single-coloured piece of cloth that suddenly displays a colourful pattern when the ambient ... Visitors can warm up the fabric samples and see colour changing effects using hairdryers.

Dr. Matsumoto knitted this Crown Prince Square Shawl from a pattern by fabric designer Nancy ... field who might not otherwise even think about science.” During his introductory remarks, Dr ...

"We rely on intuition and trial and error, but translating that into precise, predictive science ... pattern—just knits and purls—you can essentially encode instructions for how the fabric ...

For example, they printed patterns that can harvest and store electricity onto fabrics. The potential for ... a new materials science journal from publisher Cell Press. "We used a 3D printer ...

During graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009, Matsumoto came across an unusually knotty stitch while knitting a pattern for ... of the resulting fabric. Yarn on its own isn ...

Clothing makers use sewing patterns to create the differently shaped pieces of material that make up a garment, using them as templates to cut and sew fabric. Reproducing a pattern from an ...

The dress moved with Hadid’s body like regular, fitted fabric as she walked down the ... but a testament to innovations in material science more than two decades in the making.