Fascinating Fabric: Squeaky Clean Cotton

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Lets face it, we live in a germ and bacteria filled world. Don’t get us wrong, most of it is necessary to live. There have been tons of studies done that prove that exposure to such things as we grow strengthens our immune systems and lessens our chances of having acute allergies. However, it is indisputable that too much of the wrong bacteria can really mess with your health. That is why chemists at the University of California were incredibly excited when they discovered a way to make self-disinfecting cotton.

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Fascinating Fabric: What A Beautiful Web We Weave

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It is hard for us at J&O Fabric to think of spiders as anything other than the creepy crawly things that give us goosebumps. However, upon finding out that more than a million Golden Orb spiders were used to create a 13-foot-long silk textile masterpiece, we had to give the spindly legged buggers their due.

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To make the fabric, the spiders were collected each morning and put into ‘harnesses’ that linked them to specially made machines that would extract their silk. At the end of each session, the spiders were returned to the wild. This is a sharp contrast to the fate of silkworms whose pupa are killed in their cocoons to produce commonly used silk.

Fascinating Fabric: Mineral Matrix Magic

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Schoeller Technologies, an innovative textile company based out of Austria, has developed a fabric called Energear that can actually increase the energy of the individual that wears it. “Humans constantly radiate or emit energy,” says ST. “Energear ensures that the heat energy radiated by the body in the form of Far Infrared Rays is reflected back by the fabric. This reflection can increase circulation and oxygen levels in the blood.”

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Fantastic Fabric: Fabric Leads To Safer Skys

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From the news desk of J&O Fabrics:

A fabric coated in a high tech heat and flame resistant resin that can contain the blast of a bomb: this is not something out of a Marvel comic book. This is a fabric that is now being developed and tested in the United Kingdom.

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Fascinating Fabric: Simply Stunning

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G2 Consulting has always specialized in lighting warning systems. However, an idea that was recently actualized by co-owner Greg Schultz might push them into a niche in the specialized clothing industry. Upon Schultz’s prompting, the Tucson, Arizona based company developed a polyester fabric that has the ability to repel the 50,000 volts that shoot out of a stun gun or cattle prod. The fabric, labeled ‘Thor Shield,’ is a thin, breathable material that contains a conductor. This means that instead of the electrical circuit going through the person that it is intended for, it goes through the material and loops back to its source.