Howard Silver, who expanded his family textile business Jasco Fabrics, has died at age 71. Silver suddenly died last week, March 6, his wife of 50 years Maida confirmed. The cause was septic shock and ...

Typical cotton underwear may be more comfortable than those made with synthetic fabrics, but one small business is making soft skivvies high tech by adding silver to its cotton fibers. Underwear from ...

The Arc de Triomphe has seen parades, protests and tourists galore, but never before has the war monument in Paris been wrapped in silver and blue recyclable polypropylene fabric. That's about to ...

A team of researchers from Imperial College London developed a technique to print silver, gold and platinum onto natural fabrics. Up till now, metals were printed onto fabrics by coating them with ...

Sales manager Simon Burnett-Boothroyd said: "We are using a silver iron technology that we weave into our fabric. "The silver ionises when it is in the presence of bacteria and this ionisation process ...

When Emma Gage was 13, she traveled to Brazil with her mother, who was in South America to conduct research for her doctoral dissertation on Afro-Brazilian slave wear. Gage’s mother eventually ...

Imagine stringing nearly six miles of translucent silver panels above a 42-mile stretch of the Arkansas River in southern Colorado. That’s the latest dream for installation artist Christo. The 79-year ...