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Putting Invention into Practice— Conversion of the North American Denim Dyer to a New Form of Indigo
2019-06-01
This year, the AATCC Olney Medal Award Committee departed from tradition and selected a textile chemistry advancement, not from the academic sphere, but rather from the unpublicized world of manufacturing. Such an occasional break with tradition can be justified because, after all, product is the...
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2020-04-01
This was the sound advice given by British designer Vivienne Westwood, when she was asked in 2018 about ethical and environmental issues in the fashion industry. It remains equally valid in 2020 and will continue to be the ethical code by which we should shop in the future. People in the textile...
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2017-08-01
The drive to develop new applications for wearable technology continues to bring together multidisciplinary groups of people who are fusing existing technologies with newly developed ones. Monitoring of health data, such as temperature, heart rate, and muscle activity are some of the more useful...
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2018-02-01
People have been talking about robots sewing our clothes and replacing machinery operators in factories since at least the 1980s. Just like the magical washing machine and dryer that fold your clothes automatically after cleaning them, or the magical box that makes dinner after putting in a few...
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Spring 2013
Sit-to-stand (STS) transfer is a prerequisite for many daily tasks. Literature often assumes symmetrical behavior across the body (bilateral symmetry) during healthy STS. However; little research has been conducted to validate this assumption. Motion analysis was utilized to evaluate STS in 10...
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2017-10-01
In recent years, the enormous popularity of athleisure (active wear worn as day-to-day clothing) has energized an otherwise sluggish apparel industry. The global growth is expected to continue, with sales forecast to reach US$350 billion by 2020 (up from only US$197 billion in 2007). Among the...
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2017-06-01
Surgical sutures have been used for centuries to join two edges of a wound together to allow the body to heal faster. Originally, sutures were made from plant or animal materials such as silk, cotton, or catgut. Modern sutures are typically synthetic and made from polymer fibers. They can be...