Israeli designers Idan Noyberg and Gal Bulka have replaced sewing-machine needles with stamps that print lines of patterns onto fabric. More about Noyberg & Bulka uses sewing machines to stamp ink patterns onto clothes
Dutch studio Scholten & Baijings has created a collection of interior fabrics for New York textiles brand Maharam with a pattern large enough to upholster an entire sofa without repetition. More about Scholten & Baijings design fabric with nine-metre pattern repeat
Milan 2014: experimental Dutch textile designer Bart Hess played on ideas of mass production, bespoke design and the amount of human input needed to sustain the creative industries in an installation at Atelier Clerici for Milan design week. More about Bart Hess recruits public to create bespoke textile production line in Milan installation
Milan 2014: Japanese architect Toyo Ito spoke to Dezeen about his design for textile brand Kinnasand's first Milan showroom and his "site specific" architecture (+ interview + slideshow). More about Glass, timber and stone showroom created by Toyo Ito for Kinnasand's "sensitive fabric"
Milan 2014: Dutch studio Bernotat & Co created 3D-knitted fabric lamps that emulate microscopic organisms to show in the Ventura Lambrate district in Milan this week (+ slideshow). More about 3D-woven fabric creates organically shaped lamps that glow in the dark
Milan 2014: Werner Aisslinger, Martino Gampa and Robert Stadler are among 22 contemporary designers that have interpreted Danish textile brand Kvadrat's Divina fabric for a show in Milan this week (+ slideshow). More about Kvadrat's Divina fabric interpreted by 22 contemporary designers
Milan 2014: London design duo Glithero will present a range of textiles that have been woven using organ punch cards in Milan next week (+ slideshow). More about Glithero patterns fabric using organ music
Milan 2014: French design duo Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec will introduce their first fabric collection of upholstery textiles knitted from jersey in Milan next month (+ slideshow). More about Bouroullec brothers to launch first fabric collection in Milan for Kvadrat
Milan 2012: a single piece of fabric folds around the moulded polyurethane foam seat of this club chair by London designer Benjamin Hubert. More about Garment by Benjamin Hubert for Cappellini
Industrial design graduate Florian Schmid made these stools by folding fabric that's impregnated with cement then drenching it in water. More about Stitching Concrete by Florian Schmid
This exhibition designed by Gitta Gschwendtner for London's Somerset House displayed fashion drawings on gauze-covered boxes. More about Dior Illustrated: Rene Gruau and the Line of Beauty by Gitta Gschwendtner
Folds, pleats and tucks in this suit by graduate designer Carolina Reis exaggerate the movements of its wearer. More about Wear Out by Carolina Reis
DMY Berlin 2010: stitch by Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop is a series of second-hand items given new, hand-stitched fabric skins. More about Stitch by Pepe Heykoop
Italian architects Studio Archea have sent us these images of their pavilion in the Urban Best Practice Area at the Shanghai Expo 2010. More about UBPA B3-2 Pavilion by Studio Archea
Here's another student project that involves filling stitched structures with concrete (see Grompies by AA students in our earlier story), this time by architecture students Kyle A. Sturgeon, Chris Holzwart and Kelly Raczkowski from the University of Michigan. More about FattyShell (v.01) by Kyle Sturgeon, Chris Holzwart and Kelly Raczkowski
Artist Damien Hirst has designed a cashmere blanket decorated with religious symbols. More about Cashmere blanket by Damien Hirst
Designers Eiri Ota and Irene Gardpoit Chan of UUfie have completed the renovation of an apartment in Kanagawa, Japan, where the space is divided by two velvet curtains. More about Nagi by Eiri Ota and Irene Gardpoit Chan
French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have designed a modular room-dividing system called Clouds for textile manufacturers Kvadrat. More about Clouds by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec