Throughout history, representations of luxury and wealth have dominated the fashion industry. As a result, many materials now mimic extravagance but at a fraction of the cost by using different, less ...

A UBC research team has developed a cleaner way to produce rayon, a popular fabric used in clothing for more than a century. The process could significantly reduce chemical use and improve ...

When it comes to daily wear fabrics, polyester and rayon are spoken of in the same sentence. Due to the crisp appearance, clean texture, a lot of people either confuse the two fabrics or think they ...

In a peer-reviewed study, published in the journal Chem Circularity, a UBC associate professor of forestry, Feng Jiang, and a ...

The Federal Trade Commission Wednesday announced that it has reached deals with several retailers over deceptive labeling of fabrics containing rayon. Nordstrom, Bed Bath & Beyond, J.C. Penney, and ...

Carbonized fabric is used to produce carbon cloth composites, which protect structural components from heat by functioning as ablative materials due to their extreme temperature resilience. In ...