Ken Aldren S. Usman receives funding from Deakin University's Post-graduate Research (DUPR) Scholarship Grant. From clothes to curtains, towels and sheets, fabrics are everywhere in our daily lives.

FALL RIVER – Reader Ronald Bernardo wrote in to “Fall River Wonders” to say he remembers seeing bales of cotton being offloaded from trains and he’s always wondered how cotton got made into threads ...

As you read this piece, you’re probably wearing a bit of ancient history: cotton. Thousands of years ago, humans in South America, Africa, and Asia found that the fluffy white boll that emerged from ...