Winter is almost here, which means it's officially time to dust off the season's uniform: sweaters. While sweater weather has its pros—cozy outfits and yummy hot chocolate, for example— there’s one ...

Use scissors or a safety razor. You can also pull the fabric taut over a curved surface and carefully cut off the pills with small, sharp scissors or shave the fabric surface with a safety razor. You ...

Soft knits and brushed fabrics pill most easily, while tightly woven or long-fiber fabrics tend to stay smoother. You can safely remove pills with a fabric shaver, sweater comb, or even tape, ...

Your coziest sweater, warmest blanket, most-used bed sheets, and favorite workout pants all have one thing in common: They may be prone to small, firm balls of lint known as pills. Pilling on clothes ...

Sweaters can pill, they can stretch (or shrink), they can unravel, but not if you take the time to take care of them. They’re delicate, even for how chunky and thick they tend to be. You shouldn’t ...

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No matter what you spend on a sweater, it seems to develop those unsightly little balls of fuzz. Elizabeth Holmes takes a look at why even expensive sweaters aren't immune to pilling and what prevents ...