New Textiles 2011

Yarn Assignment

Laser Cutter Tutorial Sign Up

Sign up for a laser-cutter and fabric PCB tutorial here by adding your name to the google spreadsheet under your preferred date & time.

Spinning Tutorial with KanJun Qiu

KanJun Qiu will teach a spinning tutorial on Monday February 21st from 2-5pm in the High-Low Tech lab. Come if you are interested in learning how to hand spin yarn using a spindle. If you can’t make it to this session, there are lots of good tutorials online. Here’s a nice instructable from my old [...]

Fiber and Yarn

The slides from Tuesday’s lecture on Fiber are here and the slides on Yarn are here. There are links to suppliers of a range of different fibers and yarns on the HLT wiki. There is more information about measuring fibers and yarns here and here.

Flower Patch – Simple LED Circuit

I made a simple led circuit that lights of the petals of a flower. The “switch” is a safety pin on the back. The pin connects two pieces of conductive fabric and thus the LEDs light when the patch is pinned to something.