print email comment close Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance URL: http://www.cooperhewitt.org/exhibitions/extreme_textiles/index.asp Description: This companion to a 2005 exhibit highlights technical textiles used in applications such as apparel, sports, transportation, medicine, and engineering. Includes images and brief descriptions of items such as Gore-tex apparel, spacesuits, carbon bicycle wheels, speed-skiing helmets, vascular grafts, fishing nets, and more. Includes a game and video clips. From the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Publisher: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Library of Congress Subject Headings: Industrial fabrics Textile fabrics Textile fabrics -- Technological innovations LII Database Information: Record 13421 created by Jennifer English on 04/12/2005 Last modification on 02/16/2006 Published: 04/12/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/13421