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Textiles & Fabrics

People wearing half-chest binders

Redefining Nude

Museum

Europium (III) Hydroxide [Eu(OH)₃] under UV Light

Critical Metals: The Chemistry of Light

Museum

The BGL Chemical Set

Science at Play

Museum

Oil painting of an alchemist reading

Age of Alchemy

Museum

Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot

Things Fall Apart

Museum

Second Skin exhibit

Second Skin: The Science of Stretch

Museum

Illustration of tapping serum from a horse in a pharmacy

Animals and the Making of Human Vaccines

Museum

Ad for colored stockings 1955

Nylon: From Labs to Legs

Museum

Ad for colored stockings 1955

Ex Libris Universum: Museum Tour

Media Coverage

Illustration of women in colorful clothing

Fit to Be Dyed

Distillations Article

Ad for colored stockings 1955

Digital Exhibitions

Museum

Man pulling on a white tube of polymer

Bob Gore’s Cozy Revolution

Distillations Article

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

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

Distillations Article

LZR Racer

Winning Skin

Distillations Article

Carl “Speed” Marvel in PBI vest

Tough Stuff

Distillations Article

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

Robert W. Gore

Historical Profile

Modern Books and Journals

Collections

Wallace Hume Carothers

Historical Profile

Ruth Benerito.

Ruth Benerito

Historical Profile

William Henry Perkin

Historical Profile

Stephanie Kwolek at a polarizing microscope.

Stephanie L. Kwolek

Historical Profile

Blow Pipe Kit

Objects

Collections

Making Modernity exhibit at the Science History Institute

On View

Museum

Photographs

Collections

Collections

Collections

Permanent Exhibition

Museum

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

Distillations Article

Natrually dyed fibers

To Dye For

Distillations Article

Museo Territoriale Bassa Friulana

A Future Woven in Rayon

Distillations Article

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

Distillations Article