Velcro Brand has a few harsh words for people calling all “hook and loop” fasteners “Velcro.” The company that makes the nylon hook and loop fasteners for enclosures on clothes, shoes, bags and more ...

The U.S. Army has a problem with Velcro. It’s too noisy. And its little loops get clogged with dust from the Afghan and Iraqi deserts. The so-called “hook-and-loop” fastener was added to standard ...

Buttons are forever a classic necessity. Zippers are having a memorable moment under the spotlight. Hooks, toggles, tied-off closures—all of these fasteners have had on-again-off-again relationships ...

Velcro was invented by Georges De Mestral after having his curiosity piqued by the alpine burdock plant which used to attach itself to his clothing and his dog's fur whenever they were out walking.

A new material called Metaklett is like hook-and-loop (“Velcro”) made out of steel and much scarier. One side of the material bristles with sharp spikes and the other side has jagged steel brushes.

Seven decades after the invention of Velcro fastener, a Japanese company is looking to give the product a facelift. Textile and chemical maker Teijin Ltd. said it has developed a new fabric fastener ...

Born in the tiny town of Saint-Saphorin-sur-Morges in 1907, George de Mestral filed his first patent at the age of 12, for a toy airplane. “He was driven to invent,” says Fraser Cameron, president and ...

Velcro is great when you need to open stuff fast or with ease, but Velcro is not so great when you’re trying to discreetly open your shoulder bag to grab your headphones. Researchers from Wageningen ...