CHARLOTTE — A machine caught fire at an apparel manufacturing facility in Salisbury caught fire Sunday morning. South Salisbury Fire Department said they went to a Gildan Yarns plant on Chamandy Drive ...

Researchers unexpectedly discovered that the ability for spirals to form in nature also happens in some non-biological systems that convert chemical energy into mechanical action -- allowing ...

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TWO RIVERS - Tucked away in a corner of the city is a longtime business that has been spinning yarns for years. Since 1923, three generations of the Webster family have been working at this Crescent ...

A researcher powers an array of light-emitting diodes by rubbing the triboelectric textile. Credit: Junyi Zhai and Zhong Lin Wang A researcher powers an array of light-emitting diodes by rubbing the ...

PUTNEY — The sound can be deafening, as the 100-year-old machines at Green Mountain Spinnery do something timeless: turn raw sheep's wool into fine soft yarn. It's a scene that could easily appear in ...

Almost every adult is able to recall wearing a scratchy woollen jumper at some point during their younger days. Fortunately the landscape of the wool industry has moved on. On-farm sheep breeding ...