Kapok is a fiber you may have never heard of, yet it’s commonly used in many products. And now, at least one company has figured out how to turn it into clothing. This renewable and sustainable ...

The textile industry has dedicated significant energy and investment toward innovating new fibers. Despite these efforts, cotton continues to maintain its dominance in the denim world today. There is ...

Across Hong Kong, vibrant bombax trees, commonly known as kapok, are in flower. Bombax ceiba is the variety usually seen locally. Depending on soil conditions, and availability of water in early ...

If you stepped outside during the recent polar vortex, you probably had on an insulated jacket, or wished you did. Normally, those insulated jackets are made of two layers of fabric with a ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. How beautiful. Floating white fiber from a large Kapok Tree in the Los Baños campus of the University of the ...

Weavers of Anakaputhur, majority of them women, launched a saree made of kapok on International Women’s Day. Kapok ( Ceiba pentandra), also called Java cotton, is the fibre obtained from the kapok ...

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