Amid a shortage of medical-grade masks, federal guidelines now recommend everyone wear face coverings out in public. Here's how to make your own cloth mask.

CHICAGO -- Bill Purdue waterproofs basements for a living, but he has spent the past few days in his buddy's Washington, Indiana, auto trim and upholstery shop cutting rectangles of cotton fabric that ...

For those searching for a DIY quarantine activity, making your own masks may be the solution. Mask-making is a fun activity that goes a long way toward preventing the need to quarantine, helping the ...

With chronic face mask shortages in the midst of a virus outbreak, Hong Kongers have started making their own -- with a pop-up production line and seamstresses churning them out on sewing machines. In ...

When the coronavirus outbreak starting closing down its retail stores around North America, Gap, Inc., decided to put its services to use elsewhere. Instead of focusing on the downside of the ...

Thomas Nakazawa, the owner of Stitch Master Custom Embroidery and Screen Printing, is using his machines to make face masks and cover-ups for medical workers and hospital patients. Thomas Nakazawa, ...

FARGO — It’s hard to keep up isn’t it? For months, health experts said healthy people didn’t need to wear masks to protect themselves from coronavirus. But as the scientists learn more about the ...

P95 and N95 are rating classifiers for masks manufactured to keep people from inhaling dust and other small particles in unsafe environments.