Mililani resident Aki Shin, 37, took a voluntary furlough from Hawaiian Airlines earlier this month and has been spending some of her time sewing fabric face masks for her ohana and friends. Shin ...

Purell and toilet paper aren't the only items flying off store shelves as coronavirus spreads. Masks have also become a hot commodity, so much so that hospitals across the country have begun sending ...

Grace Jun, assistant professor of fashion at Parsons School of Design and chief executive of Open Style Lab, wrote this pattern after consulting with the New York City Mayor’s Office for People with ...

After this pandemic is over, I’m going to keep on stitching. I did a lot of sewing as a teenager. It felt like an invisible cocoon took shape around me as I guided the fabric with my fingertips to the ...

The recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation to use cloth face coverings to help slow the spread of COVID-19 has generated numerous how-to articles and videos. As academics who ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Many people are doing their part to help in any way they can during the COVID-19 outbreak. That includes sewing DIY face masks. Amid a nationwide shortage of medical face masks, dozens ...

It's difficult to keep your distance in a grocery store or pharmacy, so now the CDC says we should wear a homemade mask in public to slow the spread of the coronavirus — particularly in areas with ...

Colorful DIY fabric face masks. New research published by the American Chemical Society and conducted by University of Chicago scientists suggests that fabric type plays a role in filtration ...