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Textiles & Fabrics

Women wearing orange yoga pants and yellow sneakers

The Yoga Pant Problem

Distillations Podcast

Women’s Work

Distillations Article

How to Make Magical Clothing with Tech

Event

Idea Lab: Students Talk Gender and Science

Event

LZR Racer

Winning Skin

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First Friday: Second Skin—The Science of Stretch

Event

Othmer Library Open House: The Golden Age of Science Advertising

Event

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

Natrually dyed fibers

To Dye For

Distillations Article

William Henry Perkin

Historical Profile

Wallace Hume Carothers

Historical Profile

Stephanie Kwolek at a polarizing microscope.

Stephanie L. Kwolek

Historical Profile

Ruth Benerito.

Ruth Benerito

Historical Profile

Photographs

Collections

Collections

Collections

Making Modernity

Making Modernity

Museum

Scientists You Must Know Video

Scientists You Must Know

Learn

Blow Pipe Kit

Objects

Collections

Making Modernity exhibition at the Museum at CHF.

On View

Museum

The French Connection

Distillations Article

Ruining Rags

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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

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

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