Generation-old family tradition of cotton weaving still continues through a cooperative of pre-Independence era at Padmanabhpur village of Ganjam district in Odisha. This is evident from the ...

Her face and hands are full of lines and wrinkles, but her memory is still sharp. Nguan Sermsri, of tambon Ban Puek in Chon Buri province is still teaching others how to weave the rare Ang Sila cotton ...

Sometimes a comparison is more revealing than just a fact. India grows far more cotton than the US. But while cotton in the US is grown by large corporations on farms of vast acreage and harvested by ...

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Mohammad Ameen sits on a mat on the floor, surrounded by piles of cotton. On one side is stiff cotton, and on the other is the fluffy, soft stuff. Sitting between the piles, Ameen uses a handmade ...

One of the most fascinating bits of research in this area is being done by a group at Cornell University's Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory. They've developed a means of actually making transistors ...