GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A new yarn store is opening on Wealthy Street in Grand Rapids and will offer a community where artists can stop in to work on their crafts. Unwind GR is preparing to ...

SHEBOYGAN — A new yarn shop will open in downtown Sheboygan in April. The Last Sheepicorn, 632 N. Eighth St., will open April 10, following the closure of The Lost Sheep Yarn Shop on Pennsylvania ...

Drexel researchers have developed a way to coat cellulose yarn with flakes of a type of conductive, two-dimensional material, called MXene, to imbue it with the conductivity and durability it needs to ...

US yarn manufacturer Unifi is partnering with Swiss textile machinery company Oerlikon to enable it to deliver new, innovative performance yarns. The two companies have collaborated on the development ...

Producing functional fabrics that perform all the functions we want, while retaining the characteristics of fabric we’re accustomed to is no easy task. Two groups of researchers at Drexel University — ...

Another local business is closing, and unfortunately it's one in the yarn business -- Hither and Yarn on East Main Street. Owner Cynthia Yanok's store will be missed, but the author and knitwear ...

Researchers have figured out how to add more conductivity into functional fabric devices, by coating yarns with a 2-dimensional carbon-based material called MXene, to make conductive threads. The ...

Is knitting the new yoga? In a survey commissioned by the American Craft Yarn Council, women compared the therapeutic repetitive looping of threads together to the relaxing effect of yoga. The pursuit ...

This July 2017 photo provided by yarn activist Hinda Mandell shows crochet emoji faces that Mandell installed outside of Susan B. Anthony's historic home, known as the National Susan B. Anthony Museum ...