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These stories of displaced families are told in fabric, needle and thread August 4, 2016 More than 8 years ago William Adjété Wilson’s “The Middle Passage” is part of his series “The ...
“The Golden Thread” offers an eclectic take on how humans have developed fabric, from the first known flax fibers found in a cave in Georgia, spun from the insides of plants and dating at ...
Betty Mungo, 75, raises needle and thread as she works on a community quilt project Saturday in a Bridgeport art studio. She is joined across the table by fellow Peace by Piece member Viola Sears, 84.
Bolt Threads has been one long science experiment. Founded six years ago by three PhD scientists, the company makes genetically-engineered fabric it grows in fermentation vats. But now the company ...
FABRIC Act will “thread the needle” of protecting garment workers. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has introduced the new Fashioning Accountability and Building Real Institutional Change (FABRIC) Act, ...
The difference between a $5,000 suit and a $50,000 bespoke suit, besides a raise to a C-letter job title, is fabric. Sure, a documented Neapolitan lineage, a tastefully wood paneled dressing room and ...
Thread, the Pittsburgh-based startup that's collected over 41 million plastic bottles from landfill communities in Haiti and Honduras and created fabric for some of the world's leading brands, today ...
Scraps of fabric found in northern Norway in 1989 revealed woollen cloth from a sail hundreds of years old. Like silk, wool was a money spinner in Europe and made, amongst others, the Cistercian ...