Norse sails loomed off the shores of the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, along the northeastern coast of Great Britain, on June 8, 793. The seafaring invaders sacked the island’s undefended monastery. The ...

Details of textile instruments are visible in the Achilles mosaic in the palace of Lycomedes in the villa of La Olmeda. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons A recent study published in the ...

Archeologists in western Turkey have discovered textile tools nearly twice as old as Egypt’s Great Pyramids. Bone needles and round stones used for spinning thread dating back some 8,600 years were ...

The Emerging Technologies Conference at Advanced Textiles Expo 2025 explored the importance of textile industry support for innovative ideas.

[Irene Posch] has done some incredible work with knitted, crocheted, and fabric circuits — check out the crocheted ALUs and embroidered computer for starters. Now, it seems [Irene] is building up a ...

What’s on your bench? Mine’s mostly filled with electronic test equipment, soldering kit, and computers. I’m an electronic engineer by trade when I’m not writing for Hackaday, so that’s hardly ...