Associated with outdoor wear, this fabric is a soft, fluffy material that is most often made from polyester. Mittens, hats, and scarves are made from the synthetic material known as polar fleece.

The fabric we commonly refer to in the outdoor world as fleece is actually more accurately called Polar Fleece (to distinguish it from the wool that sheep grow and humans have been wearing for ...

These strands then get brushed for added texture. The last step is usually applying waterproofing materials to the fabric. Polar fleece, previously trademarked as PolarFleece, was the first type ...

This fabric—soft, snuggly, and, yet, in the mountain environment for which it was repurposed, technical—is “fleece ... and others with “Polar” as a prefix. Simplified in 1991 ...

The researchers say their work, published on April 5 in the journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, caps an 80-year quest to create a textile that mimics polar bear fur. They say the fabric ...

Polar fleece is a fairly recent arrival, invented by an American textile company Malden Mills, in 1979, who called it PolarTec. The fabric itself is made from polyester, a manmade fibre produced ...