Juergen Freund / Wildlife carer wrapping a Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) baby in blankets, Tolga Bat Hospital, Queensland, Australia.

Jiri Lochman / Bolas spider (Dicrostichus furcatus / Ordgarius furcatus) female with bolas, a blob of silk at end of line used to swing at prey, only used by females. Bolas spiders also produce pheromones of specifi...

Gavin Hellier / Man and boy feeding undyed fabric into a washing and rolling machine in a sari garment factory, Rajasthan, India, 2011.

Juergen Freund / Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) casualty of paralytic tick (Ixodes holocyclus) bite being cared for on site of colony by Jenny Mclean, North Queensland, Australia, November 2012

Juergen Freund / Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) babies swaddled in cloth ready to sleep, Tolga Bat Hospital, Atherton, North Queensland, Australia. January 2008.

Ross Hoddinott / 2020VISION / Dew covered spider's web with pink flowering heather in the background, Arne RSPB reserve, Dorset, England, UK, August. Did you know? Spiders silk is one of the strongest materials in nature, equallin...

Laurie Hedges / Drone shot of cotton plantation, shot zooms out to reveal scale of field, cause of forest loss and deforestation in Amazon, Brazil

Laurie Hedges / Drone shot of a cotton plantation, cause of forest loss, Rondonia, Brazil, 2019.

David Woodfall / Sorting and grading wool for spinning in woollen mill. North Uist, Scotland, UK, July.

David Woodfall / Wool yarn manufacturing, North Uist, Outer Hebireds. Scotland, UK, July 2016.

David Woodfall / White and grey spun wool in woollen mill. Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, July.

David Woodfall / Sorting and grading wool for spinning in woollen mill. North Uist, Scotland, UK, July.

David Woodfall / Manequin with high quality knitwear made from sheep grazed on local machair. With wind turbines powering production of wool. North Uist, Scotland, UK, July 2016.

David Woodfall / Raw wool going to into carding machine. North Uist, Scotland, UK, July.

Juergen Freund / Wildlife carer wrapping a Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) baby in blankets, with three other orphans wrapped up nearby, Tolga Bat Hospital, Queensland, Australia.

Juergen Freund / Four orphaned Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) babies wrapped in blankets with pacifiers, Tolga Bat Hospital, Queensland, Australia.

Karine Aigner / Biologists researching song birds, weighing and banding birds caught in mist nets. Here birds are kept in breathable fabric bags while they are waiting to be examined. Block island, Rhode Island, US...

Ashley Cooper / Villagers in a remote subsistence farming village on an island in the Sunderbans, the Ganges Delta in Eastern India. December 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Women washing clothes in a river near Chikwawa in the Shire Valley, Malawi.

Ashley Cooper / Cotton bushes, a water hungry crop in Wasco in the Central Valley of California following the four-year-long drought in the Western USA. Many farms have run out of water, and 428,000 acres of farmlan...

Ashley Cooper / Trekkers camp in the snow, Jebel Sirwa region of the Anti Atlas mountains of Morocco, North Africa. April 2012

Ashley Cooper / The Strata building at the Elephant and Castle in London, the first building in the world where wind turbines have been integrated into the fabric of the building. It has three 15 megawatt turbines t...

Ashley Cooper / The Strata building at the Elephant and Castle in London, the first building in the world where wind turbines have been integrated into the fabric of the building. It has three 15 megawatt turbines t...

Ashley Cooper / The Strata building at the Elephant and Castle in London, the first building in the world where wind turbines have been integrated into the fabric of the building. It has three 15 megawatt turbines...

Ashley Cooper / Woman cooking on a traditional clay oven, fuelled by biofuel (rice stalks) Sunderbans, Ganges Delta, Eastern India. December 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Woman cooking on a traditional clay oven, fuelled by biofuel (rice stalks) Sunderbans, Ganges Delta, Eastern India. December 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Woman drying her rice crop in the Sunderbans, Ganges, Delta, India. December 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Village woman putting rice crop into container in a remote subsistence farming village on an island in the Sunderbans, the Ganges Delta, Eastern India. December 2013.

Gavin Hellier / Roller pulling fabric through a bath of red dye in a textiles factory, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, January 2018. Hellier

Gavin Hellier / Man inspecting a roller pulling fabric through a prewash bath in a textiles factory, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, Model released, January 2018. Hellier

Gavin Hellier / Roller pulling fabric through a bath of red dye in a textiles factory,with man stirring the dye, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, Model released, January 2018. Hellier

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Shipibo-Conibo woman preparing cotton on a spindle to weave a traditional fabric, near Pulcalpa, Peru, 2009.

Graham Eaton / Exposure of Kimmeridge claystone, a hydrocarbon source rock. Rock with multi direction minor jointing and thin bedding, Kimmeridge, Dorset, England, UK.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Nenets women shopping for material at a stall during the reindeer herders' festival in Nadym. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

Nick Upton / Large thistle weevil / Sluggish weevil (Cleonis pigra), on fabric, Lesbos / Lesvos, Greece, May.

Gary K. Smith / Potato (Solanum tuberosum), 'Arran Pilot', 'Juliette' and 'Sharpes Express', set to chit prior to planting, England, UK. February.

Nick Turner / Landscape painter Ian Shearman painting landscape on Selsley Common, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK. September 2015.

Nick Turner / Traditional hand tools for coppicing hazel (Corylus avellana) Ullenwood, Coberley, Gloucestershire, UK.

Nick Turner / Traditional hand tools for coppicing hazel (Corylus avellana) Ullenwood, Coberley, Gloucestershire, UK.

Nick Upton / Rescued week-old abandoned Common pipistrelle bat pup (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) clinging to a ball of fabric and being wrapped in a fleece before being placed in an incubator between feeds, North De...

Nick Upton / Rescued week old abandoned Common pipistrelle bat pup (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) clinging to a ball of fabric and wrapped in a fleece before being placed in an incubator between feeds, North Devon Ba...

Nick Upton / Samantha Pickering holding a week-old abandoned Common pipistrelle bat pup (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) wrapped in a fleece and clinging to a ball of fabric, before placing it in an incubator between t...

Constantinos Petrinos / Traditional woven cloth and hats, produced by the Dorze Tribe, Dorze Tribe, Chencha, Ethiopia, Africa, March 2009

Bruno D'Amicis / Cotton crop in hut on shores of Shesher lake, Fogera Plains, Lake Tana Biosphere Reserve December 2013.

Pete Oxford / Silk worms (Bombyx mori) raised for silk, Khasi Tribe. Meghalaya, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Man feeding Silk worms (Bombyx mori) raised for silk, Khasi Tribe. Meghalaya, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Mising tribe woman spinning silk, Majuli Island, Brahmaputra River, Assam, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Mising tribe woman spinning silk, Majuli Island, Brahmaputra River, Assam, North East India, October 2014.

Pete Oxford / Woman weaving, Assam, North East India, November 2014.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Weaving traditional Iban pua kumbu fabric, in Dayak longhouse, Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. August 2010.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Weaving traditional Iban pua kumbu fabric, in Dayak longhouse, Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. August 2010.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Weaving traditional Iban pua kumbu fabric, in Dayak longhouse, Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. August 2010.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Weaving traditional Iban pua kumbu fabric, in Dayak longhouse, Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. August 2010.

Stephen Dalton / White-shouldered house moth (Endrosis sarcitrella) on fabric. Sussex, England, UK. September.

Kirkendall-Spring / Ceremony adorning golden statue of the Buddha in yellow sashes, Wat Phanan Choeng, Ayutthaya. Thailand, September 2014.

Kirkendall-Spring / Ceremony adorning golden statue of the Buddha (in Calling the Earth to Witness posture) in yellow sashes, Wat Phanan Choeng, Ayutthaya. Thailand, September 2014.

Andy Trowbridge / Fallow Deer (Dama dama) stag standing in ferns, antlers in velvet. Introduced Species. North Island, New Zealand.

David Noton / Silk worm (Bombyx mori) cocoons at a weaving centre in Luang Prabang, Laos, March 2009.

David Noton / Silk worm (Bombyx mori) cocoons at a weaving centre in Luang Prabang, Laos, March 2009.

David Noton / Silk worm (Bombyx mori) larvae feeding at weaving centre in Luang Prabang, Laos, March 2009.

David Noton / Weaver making silk cloth, Luang Prabang, Laos, March 2009.

David Noton / Weaver making silk cloth, Luang Prabang, Laos, March 2009.

David Noton / Weaver making silk cloth, Luang Prabang, Laos, March 2009.

David Noton / Weaver making silk cloth, Luang Prabang, Laos, March 2009.

David Noton / Weaver making silk cloth, Luang Prabang, Laos, March 2009.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Weaver's looms and traditional Peul / Fula fabrics. National Museum, Naiamey, Niger, 2004.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Man weaving traditional Peul / Fula fabric on loom. National Museum, Naiamey, Niger, 2004.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Man weaving traditional Peul / Fula fabric on loom. National Museum, Naiamey, Niger, 2004.

Gavin Hellier / Two men bleaching fabric in a sari garment factory, Rajasthan, India, Asia, 2011. Model released. Property released.

Gavin Hellier / Man hanging newly dyed fabric to dry from bamboo poles in a sari garment factory, Rajasthan, India, 2011.

Gavin Hellier / Man and boy feeding undyed fabric into a washing and rolling machine in a sari garment factory, Rajasthan, India, 2011.

Gavin Hellier / Man checking a machine dyeing, washing and rolling fabric in a sari garment factory, Rajasthan, India, 2011.

Gavin Hellier / Newly dyed fabric being washed and rolled in a sari garment factory, Rajasthan, India, UK

Gavin Hellier / Man hanging newly dyed fabric to dry from bamboo poles in a sari garment factory, Rajasthan, India, 2011.

Gavin Hellier / Timelapse of newly dyed Sari fabric being hung up to dry in a Sari factory, Rajasthan, India, 2011.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Man sewing colourful loom woven fabric at Artisan Centre, Guinea-Bissau, December 2013.

Solvin Zankl / Bioluminescent Fungus gnat (Arachnocampa luminosa) larvae on cave roof with sticky silk threads hanging down, Glowworm cave near Waitomo Cave, near Te Kuiti, North Island, New Zealand, July.

Alex Mustard / Decorative sea silk, woven from the spun byssus threads produced by the large bivalve mollusc, the Noble pen shell (Pinna nobilis). Calasetta, Island of Sant'Antioco, Sardinia, Italy. Mediterranean Se...

Sue Flood / Silkworm moth (Bombyx mori) cocoons for production of silk thread, in Hoi An, Vietnam.

Pat Tuson / 100% Organic Cotton printed on label

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Men working in a silk factory, Rajshahi, Bangladesh, June 2012.

Tom Gilks / Gambian boys with a football made from old fabric, The Gambia, 2008

Tom Gilks / Feet touching a football made from old fabric, The Gambia, 2008

Tom Gilks / Feet touching a football made from old fabric, The Gambia, 2008

Pete Oxford / Rabari man herding cattle wearing everyday dress of a white turban, Dhoti (fabric tied into pants) and taylored white jacket. Gujarat. Rann of Kutch. India, November 2006

Nature Production / Fabric pattern created with dye from Morning Glory leaf {Ipomoea nil} Japan

Nature Production / Fabric pattern created with dye from Morning Glory flower {Ipomoea nil} Japan

Pete Oxford / Malaysian woman working on Batik fabric, Batik factory Penang Malaysia

Pete Oxford / Working on dyeing Batik, Batik factory Penang Malaysia

Mark Raycroft / German Shepherd (Canis familiaris) portrait of two puppies sitting on red fabric

Mark Raycroft / German Shepherd (Canis familiaris) portrait of a puppy laying on red fabric

Pete Oxford / Embroidered fabric Rajasthan, India

Onne van der Wal / Close-up of hand woven cloth, Guatemala.

Graham Eaton / A section of Pre-Cambrian age metamorphic rocks displaying S-C deformation fabric, Holy Island, Anglesey, Wales. July, 2021.

Graham Eaton / Within the Cambrian, Gwna Group, here is an excellent example of S-C fabric within schistose metasediments. S stands for Schistosity and C means Cisaillement (meaning scissor type movement in French)....

Jack Dykinga / Burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia) male carrying cotton balls for nesting material in his beak, Marana farming complex with irrigation ditches, Arizona, USA. April.