Polyester is the workhorse of fitness fabrics. You'll find it in almost everything you pick up at an athletic wear store, and logically so. Polyester is incredibly durable, wrinkle-resistant and ...

And Microft ™ MX has the appearance of a finely woven chambray due to difference in dyeing effect of both materials. The raw yarn has a gently V-shaped highly-deformed cross-section, which provides ...

The company has ambitious plans for the material with applications extending to functional innerwear and fashion clothing. The goal is to achieve sales of 500,000m annually by 2026. The fibre company ...

Stocking Series, Part 1: Wartime Rationing and Nylon Riots As hemlines rose, DuPont’s wonder fabric was a sensation among women. But during WWII, it was needed for parachutes Emily Spivack ...

Designers A History of Prada and Nylon—How the Textile Earned Its Fashionable Place By Lynn Yaeger September 24, 2021 Photographed by Kyle Weeks, Vogue, September 2019 ...

For nylon, the researchers use a trimethoxysilane that ionically bonds with the amide groups in the material. For polyester, they use 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane that covalently bonds with the fiber.

An embellished nylon fabric can be fashioned into a garment that keeps the wearer either warm or cool at the flick of a switch 1. The material, developed by Ting-Hsuan Chen, now at the University ...

Fabric sculptures by Lisa Lichtenfels, made with nylon stockings Figures with wire skeletons, wadding muscles and nylon stocking skins. 09 November 2009 • 1:40pm ...

Then, the researchers added to the masks a nylon stocking overlayer made by cutting a ring of material, about 8 to 10 inches top to bottom, from one leg on a pair of pantyhose.