Today, the term "monokini" denotes a one-piece suit with cutouts so liberal that the suit often looks like a slingshot or an unfinished two-piece with, say, a chain or a slender isthmus of fabric connecting the upper and nether sections.
Facebook, with its Oculus Rift unit and partnership with Samsung, wants to be the social fabric connecting all the headsets.
"Six," which consists of six lengths of wood, each encased in a soft white fabric, connects clearly to early 1970s Post Minimalism yet doesn't seem derivative.
These wall pieces -- part painting, part sculpture -- were Carson's answer to the industrial materials of 1970s minimalism: Soft fabric connected (and disconnected) by zippers that could transform the geometric nature of a work in question.
While she crooned, a humongous piece of fabric connected to the singer's dress was draped over the heads of each athlete competing, who had organized in the center of the stadium.
The inflatable chambers of the garment, constructed of distensible fabric, connect to the controller unit by tubing harnesses.
Factory45 takes sustainable apparel companies from idea to launch by supporting a bi-annual class of entrepreneurs in sourcing sustainable fabrics, connecting with manufacturers across the country, and raising money to fund production.
IPFN (Institute of Plasma and Nuclear Fusion, Lisbon − Portugal) developed control and data acquisition instrumentation based on the Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA), composed of digitizing (nodes) and switching (hub) boards, which establish a PCIe data network through ATCA's backplane Fabric Interface, connecting to an external host computer.
"Fabric" is the operative word, it seems: "Scale has the potential to become the fabric that connects and powers the Artificial Intelligence world," said Mike Volpi, General Partner, Index Ventures, in a statement.
"Social is a fabric; it connects the individual nodes that make up the human network," says Brian Solis, who describes himself as one of the most prominent thought leaders and published authors in new media.
"There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices.
