digital USB microscope
A great tool for understanding how conductive fibers, threads, yarns and fabrics are made up, because you can see for yourself and explore the material visually. Images: >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/plusea/albums/72157623733920334 Here two devices that I have used: Kkmoon 1000 x OTG Function USB Digital Microscope Magnifier Endoscope 8 LED Light Magnifier Magnifying Glass with Stand https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B077G8DGY9/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 […]
Circular Knit Stretch Sensors
Use of a circular knitting machine to knit a circular stretch sensor from combinations of conductive and non-conductive yarns.
Pemotex
This sample came from The Swedish School of Textile. It shrinks when heat is applied and it is not reversible. When knitted together with heat emitting thread, you can control the shape (shrink) of the textile dynamically. Only downside is that it is not reversible.
Embroidered Potentiometers
also see: crochet tilt potentiometer, fabric potentiometer, time sensing bracelet, Made using the zig-zag stitch on the sewing machine to sew/embroider a conductive and a resistive trace side by side. Then any conductive object can be used to bridge the contact between the traces and measure the position/distance from measuring point through the change in […]
Handcrafting a textile sensor from scratch
March 25 2010, SIDeR, UID, Umea, Sweden 10 participants, 3 hours Participants will be able to make their own fabric sensors and then connect it to a multimeter, LED or an Arduino+Processing to visualize the sensor data.
fabric meets electronics
Location: The Swedish School of Textile Date: March 22-26th 2010 In this five days workshop, we aim to experiment with the mapping of the body movements and technological audio/visual feedbacks. The workshop start with introduction to Arduino, and basic electronics circuit knowledge. We will also explore with Farmata library for Arduino to exchange data with […]
Embroidering Mirrors
“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
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:)