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 ...

Unless you live in leather jackets year-round, chances are your acrylics, nylons and even cottons have betrayed you with fabric pilling. That’s the term for the small balls of attached lint or fuzz ...

Pilling forms when broken fibers tangle from friction, especially on soft knits and blended fabrics. You can remove pills with a fabric shaver, razor, scissors, or lint tools, depending on severity.

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 ...