Textiles are all the different types of cloth or fabric that we use. They can make clothes, furnishing and even buildings. Different textiles can keep us warm and dry and let us express ourselves ...

NIST project created 'fingerprints' for textiles that can help sort fabrics that would otherwise end up in landfill.

The organization says its NIR-SORT offering contains the molecular “fingerprints” of different kinds of textile fibers that can enable faster and more efficient sorting of fabrics at recycling ...