Connections

Tips on how to improve your electrical contacts between various materials. It is always good practice to test a certain connecting technique before applying it to more than one connection.

Use Vaseline as a resist and a bath of salt and vinegar to etch away the copper from copper fabric to make circuits and sensors.

“Shisha (the Hindi word for “little glass”) embroidery is also known as mirror-work or abla embroidery. Originally, pieces of mica were used as the mirrors, but later, thin blown-glass pieces were broken and used. Today, small mirrors are commercially available for shisha embroidery. If you use these, make sure to file the edges first so [...]

Granny Squares are perhaps the first thing you can do when you learn how to crochet… It can look quite “Granny”, but if you have a good color combination and different thickness of yarn, it can look not so Granny:)

also see: fine steel wool
Needle felting seems to be a great technique for constructing sensors from conductive, resistive materials mashed up with regular felting wool.

Knitting, crocheting and knotting yarn, rope and other materials to make even larger 2 and 3 dimensional structures!

You can find a great selection of basic crochet tutorials online. We taught ourselves how to crochet by watching YouTube tutorial videos.

Knit, pearl, stitch, weft, warp, row, gauge…

also: loop stitch, fur stitch, crocet loop fabric
I really like the following loopy samples. There are different techniques and they can either be crocheted or knitted. The loops can be left as loops or cut and they will not unravel as the way it is worked essentially ties off the ends.