Textiles & Fabrics
Illustration of women in colorful clothing

Fit to Be Dyed

Distillations Article
Second Skin exhibit

Digital Exhibitions
Museum
Man pulling on a white tube of polymer

Bob Gore’s Cozy Revolution

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Robert W. Gore demonstrating the expansion of ePTFE, ca. 1982.

Science History Institute Mourns Loss of Bob Gore
Press Release
Women wearing orange yoga pants and yellow sneakers

The Yoga Pant Problem

Distillations Podcast

Women’s Work

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LZR Racer

Winning Skin

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Carl “Speed” Marvel in PBI vest

Tough Stuff

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Robert W. Gore demonstrating the expansion of ePTFE, ca. 1982.

Robert W. Gore
Historical Profile

Modern Books and Journals
Collections
Wallace H. Carothers, shown here with neoprene.

Wallace Hume Carothers
Historical Profile
Ruth Benerito.

Ruth Benerito
Historical Profile
A photograph that William Henry Perkin took of himself at the age of 14—four years before he discovered the first synthetic dyestuff.

William Henry Perkin
Historical Profile
Stephanie Kwolek at a polarizing microscope.

Stephanie L. Kwolek
Historical Profile
Blow Pipe Kit

Objects
Collections

Permanent Exhibition
Museum

Photographs
Collections
Making Modernity exhibit at the Science History Institute

On View
Museum

Collections
Collections

The French Connection

Distillations Article

Ruining Rags

Distillations Video
Detail of a burlap sack for H. Kohnstamm and Company’s Simplex Soap. When recently laundered clothes started to disintegrate in the early 20th century, angry customers turned to laundries, which in turn looked to soap manufacturers, such as Kohnstamm, for

Going to Pieces: A Detective Story

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Natrually dyed fibers

To Dye For

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Museo Territoriale Bassa Friulana

A Future Woven in Rayon

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A giant leg, 35 feet high, advertised nylons to the Los Angeles area.

Nylon: A Revolution in Textiles

Distillations Article

True Blue: DuPont and the Color Revolution

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