Smart textiles

Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman is an expert in wearable technology design, functional clothes and goods made from smart textiles. After many years of experience as an industrial and fashion designer, as well as a professor and researcher at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, she created the Interwoven Design Group. Her vast experience and knowledge have landed […]

Art can be a powerful driver of innovation in any field and observing how artists choose to use–or even invent–technology can be an inspiring indicator of things to come. For decades, e-textiles and…

Swedish textile artists Malin Bobeck uses fibre optics in her weaving. Technology and interactive dynamic designs make her one to watch.

Pringle of Scotland has incorporated laser-sintered nylon fabric into garments in its Autumn Winter 2014 collection, shown at London Fashion Week.

Many fashion designers are integrating technology into the clothes they design - here are ten tech-savvy designers to keep your eyes on.

When light hits a drop of water remarkable things can occur. It can refract through the water and form rainbows in the sky. Or it can have a mirroring effect, reflecting it back and create small spots of light. Liquid light is a series of experimental optical fiber textiles inspired by the interaction between water […]

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Thermochromic dyes: Smart textiles: Heat Reactive Jacket by Stone Island, a tracksuit top which changes colour from black to green/ blue once it has reached 27 degrees. The fabric that is cotton nylon with thermosentive liquid crystals that react to heat.

on exhibition now in new york, the experimental textile turns white in response to being touched by users, and can play back images and animations via a web interface.