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• AATCC Representatives Visit the Hohenstein Institutes and Oeko-Tex by Maria C. Thiry (AATCC News, April 2007). See photos of the Oeko-Tex labs.
• Coloring Your Fabric—Without Dyes! by J. Michael Quante (AATCC News, February 2009). Dyeing is only one way of bringing color to textiles. Advances in nanotechnology offer new alternatives to the traditional dyeing process with an emphasis on physical properties that bring out the color of the fabric without using dyes.
• Do You Believe in Magic by Maria C. Thiry (AATCC Review, April 2006). Nontraditional processing tools like plasma and lasers may sound fantastical, but they show real promise for the future of textiles.
• Modern Architecture from Traditional Materials by Sabine Anton-Katzenbach (AATCC Review, January 2009). With flexibility, light weight, and other physical attributes, architectural textiles open the door to new possibilities for the building industry.
• New! Technical Questions Answered by Chris Leonard (AATCC News, March 2007). AATCC answers your questions about chemicals used in test methods.
• Not Just One Thing or the Other by Maria C. Thiry (AATCC Review, August 2006). A look at textile composites.
• Triumph
of the Rag Man by Maria C. Thiry (AATCC News ,
April 2009). Today, he's not a "rag picker" but a "recycler."