Techy Textiles from Plusea

Was just searching around for interactive textile and wearables links and came across these excellent how-to tutorials from Plusea via the Instructables site

Here's a demonstration of a stretchsensing tubular knit - you could substitute the little LED for all sorts of things - sounds, vibrations, kinetic/robotic gestures etc.


And a demonstration of other responsive textiles she/he has created (I just wish they had more interesting thing to do that make LED's blink - there's so much more you can make these do when you add in some computing power). That said, they are a great demonstration of the basic principals…

Central Saint Martins, Textile Futures 2011,

More interesting links from Jotta…

"10 years ago, when Carole Collet set up Textile Futures at Central Saint Martins, she envisioned a new agenda for textile design. Since then the course has become internationally recognised, Collet and her team have formed a new discipline for “designers who are willing to engage with sustainable thinking, experimental design and radical doing.” We spent some time with these designers to find out more about our future textiles."

- via Mille Ross, Jotta website/blog
http://www.jotta.com/jotta/published/home/article/v2-published/1742/textile-futures-2011-10-candles