The FTB, being an aircraft structural component, has been selected as the verification structure and demonstrator of a novel material-driven design concept aiming to progressively replace mechanical fasteners by adhesively bonded joints and introduce fabric composites of enhanced through-thickness properties in aero-structures.
I applaud the French innovation in fabrics, but if American manufacturers tried to introduce fabrics that contained fungicides, perfume microcapsules, pesticides and ceramic particles into the French market, would there be protests about "unnatural" products?
This technique replaced woodblock printing after the Second World War, when American parachutes, left on the beaches of Normandy, introduced nylon fabric to France.
Crusaders who had passed through Damascus introduced the fabric to Europe in the 11th century, and the weaving of linen damask became established in flax-growing countries in France, for example, by the mid-13th century.
Giorgio Armani was at the forefront of this revolution, which removed a jacket's internal padding, lightened the colour palette and introduced softer fabrics such as linen.
He changed the Coco look from safe to sporty and introduced modern fabrics, like the eerie transparent plastic jacket cascading with stones that was worn so casually over a swimsuit.
Mr. Sprouse and Suzanne Tick, the creative director of Knoll Textiles, are also introducing a fabric collection.
Next year DuPont will introduce a fabric that can temporarily imprison offensive scents -- so that, say, a shirt that spent the night in a smoke-filled bar will arrive home at 5 a.m. smelling as if it passed the hours in a spring meadow.
This paper is mainly focused on introducing cotton fabric with hydrogel and antimicrobial properties using Tragacanth gum as a natural polymer with hydrogel properties, silver nitrate as silver precursor, citric acid as a cross-linking agent and sodium hypophosphite as catalyst.
The oxygen content of the fabrics was increased indicating that hydrophilic groups had been introduced into the fabric leading to the improved wettability.
