CHARLOTTE — A machine caught fire at an apparel manufacturing facility in Salisbury caught fire Sunday morning. South Salisbury Fire Department said they went to a Gildan Yarns plant on Chamandy Drive ...

Researchers unexpectedly discovered that the ability for spirals to form in nature also happens in some non-biological systems that convert chemical energy into mechanical action -- allowing ...

TWO RIVERS - Tucked away in a corner of the city is a longtime business that has been spinning yarns for years. Since 1923, three generations of the Webster family have been working at this Crescent ...

Almost every adult is able to recall wearing a scratchy woollen jumper at some point during their younger days. Fortunately the landscape of the wool industry has moved on. On-farm sheep breeding ...

(JNS) A 12,000-year-old tool used to spin fibers into yarn has been identified in an archaeological dig in northern Israel, highlighting humanity’s prehistoric drive for innovation, the Hebrew ...

PUTNEY — The sound can be deafening, as the 100-year-old machines at Green Mountain Spinnery do something timeless: turn raw sheep's wool into fine soft yarn. It's a scene that could easily appear in ...

4-H volunteer Lindsay McHugh, right, assists Aileen Gravot, 12, and her mom Christine make a macrame bracelet during a 4-H Yarn Club meeting, in Pitman, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. Linda McHugh’s Pitman ...