Details of textile instruments are visible in the Achilles mosaic in the palace of Lycomedes in the villa of La Olmeda. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons A recent study published in the ...

What’s on your bench? Mine’s mostly filled with electronic test equipment, soldering kit, and computers. I’m an electronic engineer by trade when I’m not writing for Hackaday, so that’s hardly ...

Archeologists in western Turkey have discovered textile tools nearly twice as old as Egypt’s Great Pyramids. Bone needles and round stones used for spinning thread dating back some 8,600 years were ...

[Irene Posch] has done some incredible work with knitted, crocheted, and fabric circuits — check out the crocheted ALUs and embroidered computer for starters. Now, it seems [Irene] is building up a ...

Textile Exchange adds SupplyShift assessment tools SupplyShift, an online platform for collecting and measuring critical sustainability data across the supply chain, is teaming up with Textile ...

Researchers have determined that a collection of 12,000-year-old tiny stone objects found at a Stone Age site in the Jordan Valley were likely used to spin fibers into yarn, a discovery that pushes ...

Norwegian researchers, led by Espen Finstad, have uncovered 4,500 artifacts from melting glaciers, including textiles, tools, and weapons. These findings provide insights into ancient industries and ...