And yet, as I come to the end of four years of studying history and German, my memories of Oxford are as dominated by ...

but with a rider that they must wear wet cotton or silk clothes while offering prayers in the core area.

Wood pulp made from spruce trees, or in fact from ... The process of making viscose silk starts from an alkaline solution of cellulose. The wood or cotton pulp is treated with caustic soda until ...

White wine drinkers are pretty much in the clear, but red wine devotees are risking it all when it comes to white shirts, ...

or a spectacled owl (Pulsatrix perspicillata), it curls into a ball to resemble the seed pods found in silk-cotton trees to ...

Shop the launch of four new Hoka sneakers, Glossier’s seasonal Balm Dotcom flavors and a Western-inspired collection from ...

We have moved two picks to the competition. We’ve set up enough artificial Christmas trees to know that there’s no single best artificial tree. They come in dozens of species, shapes ...

And although all of the pajamas here are made from silk, a few specifically feature mulberry silk (named after the mulberry-tree leaves the ... Silk is more delicate than cotton and even wool ...

Last month an unforgettable exhibition was Chameli Ramachandran’s still life studies of flowers and nature’s tensile terrain ...

terms that refer to the weave of the cotton, which determines the feel of the bedding. Then there’s linen (which is made of flax), bamboo and other alternative fibers, lyocell, jersey, and silk.

Lounge’s round up of Indian festive wear including a rich silk sari in eyepopping cyan, a dusty rose kurta and an easygoing ...