Nettie Lombardi likes a challenge. As soon as the 18-year-old makeup artist saw her friend Anna Murphy, a Canadian makeup artist, post about using yarn for makeup — a trend that involves gluing yarn ...

I've briefly mentioned a couple of times that I'm making chemo caps now with a yarn that I bought last fall at the VNA of Somerset Hills Rummage Sale. It's Schulana Supercotton, which in the Ravelry ...

Producing functional fabrics that perform all the functions we want, while retaining the characteristics of fabric we’re accustomed to is no easy task. Two groups of researchers at Drexel University — ...

As people wrestled with the boredom and anxiety of quarantine, more than 38 million Americans turned to knitting. A full 20% of them were first-time knitters and I was among them, painstakingly trying ...

When I buy yarn from a yarn shop, I generally prewash the skeins. Yarns coming from unknown sources can be treated with softeners or finishing agents–these substances can have color-altering ...

Scientists at the Air Force Research Laboratory have “twisted” upon a new way to harvest mechanical energy using “yarns” that weigh less than a common housefly. Carbon nanotube-based “twistron” yarns, ...