Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story. Carbon fiber is a brilliant high-performance material with excellent strength-to-weight properties, but it remains expensive and impractical to ...

These days it’s hard to imagine that fabrics were ever made out of anything other than cotton or synthetic fibers, yet it wasn’t too long ago that hemp and flax-based fabrics — linen — were the rule ...

Designers do not hesitate to make complex shapes in flax linen composite, the fibers most often used on the product surface, or to play with the aesthetic effect: chair, armchair, tables, light ...

Yamaha hopes that flax fiber could eventually be a sustainable alternative to fiberglass and carbon fiber. A couple of ...