Hacker News with Generative AI: Textiles

Fabric and craft retailer Joann to go out of business, close all of its stores (apnews.com)
Fabric and crafts retailer Joann Inc., which has been a destination for generations of quilters, knitters and lovers of crafts projects for more than 80 years, is going out of business and shuttering all its stores.
Retail, Business, Crafts, Textiles
36 points by mooreds 36 days ago | 105 comments
Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (Ca. 425–1100) (publicdomainreview.org)
When the lords of the Inca were forced to send tribute to the Spanish, they made their payments, in part, in panes de grana — “cakes” or “loaves” of the cactus-eating cochineal beetle (magno or macnu in Quechua), which when pulverized and mixed with mordant produces a blood-red pigment whose intensity was unrivaled by anything previously known to Europeans.
History, Art, Textiles, Ancient Civilizations, South America
12 points by prismatic 51 days ago | 0 comments
Sky Cooling Fabrics (in backyard workshop) [video] (youtube.com)
DIY, Textiles, Innovation, Sustainability, Climate Change
9 points by cab404 144 days ago | 0 comments
Homemade Machine Turns Bioplastics into Cooling Fabric [video] (youtube.com)
Homemade Projects, Sustainability, Materials Science, Textiles
3 points by imglorp 186 days ago | 0 comments
Small neural network enables realistic rendering of woven fabrics in real-time (techxplore.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics, Real-Time Rendering, Textiles
181 points by wglb 251 days ago | 65 comments
Unraveling the physics of knitting (research.gatech.edu)
Physics, Textiles, Science, Engineering
76 points by gmays 292 days ago | 15 comments