From expressing ourselves through fashion to protecting ourselves from the elements, textiles seem to be self-evidently significant to the human experience. But it's our goal on Tangents to always poke holes in the obvious, tear through distraction, and weave humor with knowledge - and the facts this episode will blow your cotton-poly blend socks off.
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[Truth or Fail Express]
Fabric shoe sole tariff
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/business/economy/columbia-sportswear-trump-trade-war.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45875405
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-is-why-your-converse-sneakers-have-felt-on-the-bottom-6016648/
Water-soluble fiber to prove original Finnish textile
https://www.perniaspopupshop.com/encyclopedia/karnataka/mysore-silk
https://www.ksicsilk.com/Home/About
https://news.mit.edu/2023/fiber-barcodes-can-make-clothing-labels-that-last-0321
Wool Acts: burial shroud requirements
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/england-wool-burial-shrouds
https://nursingclio.org/2020/05/21/weaving-wool-into-death-burial-in-17th-century-england/
https://www.hungerfordvirtualmuseum.co.uk/?view=article&id=961&catid=10
[Trivia Question]
“Cappers Act” of 1571 in England required males to wear woolen caps
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/81552
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O124661/cap/cap-unknown/?print=1
[Fact Off]
Indigenous Aymara weavers and pediatric cardiologists co-created a medical textile for congenital heart defects
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2674640
https://edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/video-player/16238899
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10329454/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3379209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK470160/
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/cardiac-catheterization
https://www.ted.com/talks/franz_freudenthal_a_new_way_to_heal_hearts_without_surgery/transcript
Creating experimental antimicrobial underwear for astronauts or space laundry machines
https://www.livescience.com/astronauts-shared-underwear-upgrade.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-05-spacesuit-underwear.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2009/07/space_age_underwear_that_can_b.html
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