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With spring comes the promise of seasonal, spiritual, and sartorial renewal—and designers are playing with shapes and styles ...
The gorpcore backpackers are wearing a breathable fabric called Alpha Direct or grid fleece. It’s coming for your cover-ups.
At Tumar, women in Kyrgyzstan are bringing together ancient nomadic felting techniques, Soviet machinery, and modern tech to ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
The announcement this morning by Government directing public agencies to consider using wool fibres over synthetic options is a sensible decision, but it is disappointing wood fibres that possess ...
DEAR BONNIE: I went to bed last night and while I was in my dream state I swore my soul went on a visit to Heaven. I came to consciousness, and I remember sitting with my mom at the kitchen table ...
(KOLN) - Instead of a paintbrush, Rhonda McClure uses a needle. Her canvas is a piece of felt, and her paint is hand-dyed wool. “All the wool that we sell here is grown on site, so it’s truly ...
But what many people don’t realize is that in the U.S., domestic wool isn’t often a profitable commodity. In fact, many sheep producers say that it’s more of a burden than a benefit, particularly ...
While shrunken laundry has only changed size, felted laundry has also changed texture, and it's much more difficult (usually impossible) to undo. Wool sweaters are especially infamous for shrinking, ...
"Shocking" and "chaotic" - this is how some Singaporeans in Bangkok described the tremors they felt and their aftermath as they rushed out of buildings, following a powerful earthquake that rocked ...
She remembered his suggestion of an angle in which she would “bark like a dog” and undergo humiliation, to which she happily agreed, knowing it would lead to her final redemption at Wrestlemania. She ...