As the weather warms, many of us reach for light-colored clothes in natural fabrics, such as cotton and linen. But why are natural fabrics like these so much better at keeping us cool when the ...

These fibers and the polymers that make them are fully formed in nature. So, the fabrics made with these fibers are called natural fabrics. Cotton, linen, silk, wool, cashmere, and burlap are all ...

Wool, wood, cotton, cocoons, coal, and petroleum are natural resources used to make fabrics. The reason each of these very different things can become fabric is that they all share a common chemistry.

We’ve probably all been told that to stay cool and dry, we should wear cotton – and yet sports shops are full of synthetic ‘technical fabrics’ designed to ‘wick away sweat’. So which ...