What is 4-way stretch fabric? The term 4-way stretch refers to a specific construction of a fabric. To make a fabric such as wool or polyester more stretchy, the fibers are interlaced with elastane, a ...

Your old yoga pants are a recycling nightmare. A startup called Return to Vendor found a new solution—by redesigning the molecules in nylon. Stretch fabrics are notoriously hard to process. When your ...

Q: Are you as annoyed as I am about the 2% spandex added to cotton clothing for women? They fit perfectly when new, but after a few months of wear, the capris and pants are stretched out and are ...

Printing on fabric might be a familiar trick, but adding stretch into the equation gives our fabric prints the ability to reconstitute themselves back into 3D. That’s exactly what [Gabe] has ...

So, I have a couple cycling jerseys in size "Large". When I purchased them, there was a note that they would be a bit more "form fitting" than the previous year's wool blend & weave. However, this is ...