New Textiles 2011

The slides from Tuesday’s lecture on Conductive Textiles are here. A set of slides on LEDs and how to make them “sewable” is here. There are links to suppliers of many of the materials we discussed in class on the HLT wiki. There are additional useful links

The history of the sewing machine is fascinating! It features a dramatic intellectual property dispute between Elias Howe and Isaac Singer (of Singer sewing machine fame). You can read more about it here. Click on the image above for patent drawings from the National Archives.