Waxed cotton is making a comeback in modern motorcycle riding gear and now manufacturers even claim they are waterproof. Many mature-aged riders remember waxed cotton as the only viable alternative to ...

Before technical fabrics, there was waxed cotton. This natural fabric gains its water resistance from a thick coating of ...

Graham Averill is Outside magazine’s national parks columnist, but some of his favorite adventures have happened inside state parks. Waxed canvas is having a moment. The cotton-based fabric that’s ...

Long before Gore-Tex or Patagonia’s H2No, people kept the rain off their backs with the most obvious of repellants: oil. It was a trick gleaned from mariners in the 1500s. Sails slicked with grease ...