Smart textiles

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

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 […]

We don’t need machines to build the automated home of the future, we can grow them right out of nature.

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Binary surfaces is a collection of two fabrics for interior use; Unum and Nihil. Unum is a three dimensional fabric with two layers. By combining fiber optics and more traditional textile materials in a double weave , I have created a voluminous fabric that is double-sided. The light is partially hidden in the pattern and […]

Google has woven conductive threads into sections of clothing to turn them into touch-sensitive panels that work like smartphone screens

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 […]

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…

As we talk to the label's creative director Carlo Rivetti about his colour-changing clothing, we offer you a chance to walk away with one of these sartorial bad boys

patronace 's GRDXKN is a newly invented textile printing technology integrating a mechanical material performance into the soft textile itself.