Textile Progress:Wearable

Electronic Textiles

Jane Wood / David Tyler / Tasneem Sabir / Chloe McDonnell / Nick

Whittaker / Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem

The Textile Institute

Professional body for industry people / organisations

Set up in Manchester in 1910 / Royal charter granted in 1925

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Textile Progress: Wearable Electronic Textiles

• Vol 51, no 4.

• Manchester Fashion Institute

• Department of Computing and Mathematics

• University of Manchester – Department of Materials

What are smart textiles in apparel?

SMART textiles:

“sense, react and adapt to the human

body or external environment“

What are smart and e textiles in apparel?

Fibres

Yarns

Fabrics

Conductive yarns and threads

• Metallics

• Blends

• Intrinsically conducting polymers

• Polymer coatings

• Metallic / polymer hybrids

• Printed conductive links

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Connections

• Studs (poppers & snaps)

• Jack

• USB

• Embroidery

• Conductive adhesives

• Conductive inks

• Soldered joins

Textile – based sensors and electrodes

• Bio (ECG / EMG)

• Physical (temperature / motion)

• Chemical (glucose / lactic acid)

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Textuators

• Mobility assistance

• Haptics

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Power

• Batteries

• Supercapacitors

• Energy harvesting

• Wireless power transfer

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Product development

Dezeen.com

Product development

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Garment development

• Anthropometrics and fit

• Fabrics

• Garment construction

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Product development

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• Linear model not suitable for this type of product

• User centred approaches are required

Considering the whole cycle

• Designing for end of life –the ‘s’ word!

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Mushrooms!

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‘Veggie’ leather

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Thankyou!