Smart textiles

Buy Smart Textiles for Designers: Inventing the Future of Fabric 2 by Pailes-Friedman, Rebecca (ISBN: 9781780677323) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Located adjacent to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, AFFOA is a one-stop shop of sorts — a laboratory, brain trust, weaving, knitting, prototype development from fiber to end product are among the 45-person group’s capabilities.

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

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…

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 […]

Workshop on Interactive Textiles, Copenhagen 2006 The main issue of the workshop is to look at experience with and learn from situations of communication through what we wear and bring that to a higher or different level through the combination of computer technology and the materiality of fabric. The achievement is to develop systems of […]

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

An MIT team has laid out a detailed vision for how the rapidly growing field of advanced fibers and fabrics could transform many aspects of our lives. For example, smart clothing might continuously monitor temperature, heart rate, and other vital signs, then analyze the data and give warnings of potential health conditions.

Read "Electronic Textiles Smart Fabrics and Wearable Technology" by available from Rakuten Kobo. The integration of electronics into textiles and clothing has opened up an array of functions beyond those of convention...