If the researchers can master the art of copying colours instead of working in black and white – something they are now working on – they might be in reach of a single fabric that achieves a genuine kind of invisibility by exactly replicating the appearance of its surroundings in any environment.
When a needle and thread I'd held onto for years both broke while repairing a torn seam in my favorite work skirt, I learned that there was no longer a single fabric store within 10 miles of my house.
In constructing the quilt top the pieced blocks may be stitched together, alternated with blocks cut from a single fabric, or separated by long strips of fabric known as sashing.
So what happens when all the books in the world become a single liquid fabric of interconnected words and ideas?
Last year, Kevin Kelly, the self-styled "senior maverick" of Wired, predicted, in a piece in the Times, that "all the books in the world" would "become a single liquid fabric of interconnected words and ideas".
The underlying issue, though, is whether the ultimate manifestation of "digitized knowledge" — all the world's books becoming, as Kevin Kelly of Wired put it, "a single liquid fabric of interconnected words and ideas" — might be a facile and dangerous corruption of the intellectual process.
Kevin Kelly, a senior editor at Wired, has predicted the advent of a "universal library" in which all the world's books will become a "single liquid fabric of inter-connected words and ideas" (New York Times, May 14 2006).
Teddy's story, which becomes a cause célèbre for campus activists angered about the school's treatment of its gay, lesbian and transgendered students, is but a single strand in the fabric of the densely knotted plot.
Single jersey cotton knitted fabric of 130 GSM was considered for the study.
