LED cell carpet
One of the most extraordinary carpet designs I have seen comes from the Dutch company LAMA Concept. Called the LED Cell rug, made from pure wool felt strips with embedded LEDs that blend perfectly into the over carpet design.
I give the label ‘extraordinary’ because the designers of these carpet, Yvonne Laurysen and Erik Mantel, combined [...]
Luminous textile ribbon
We got word from a Taiwanese manufacturer who has developed a textile ribbon using a new, low resistant electrically conductive yarn with LEDs mounted on a ribbon which can be cut to sizes as needed and then connected to a control and power supply unit to light up this textile string.
Our source told us this [...]
DIY – illuminated textiles
Lynne Bruning expanded her DIY eTextile portfolio on Instructables with the ‘flexible LED eTextile ribbon array‘ project showing how to create a textile illumination layer in grid form which is light weight and highly flexible, making it ideal to integrate in garments with light up effects.
The basic concept is to form a array with ribbons [...]
GalaxyDress by CuteCircuit
Interactive clothing designer Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz, owner of CuteCircuit and creator of the famous HugShirt aim to light up future fashion with the GalaxyDress concept design.
The illuminated fabric is made by using thin, 2 x 2 mm LEDs, hand embroider them on a layer of silk with conductive yarn traces for connections. The [...]
Illuminated wrist band for runner
Nathan’s Human Propulsion Laboratories dedicate themselves and their products for the active sport community offering gear to make cycling, running and the like more enjoyable and save.
In the later category, the safety gear, Nathan offers LED Vests (which look a bit like safety gear for street worker) but more practical, functional and better looking [...]
Pressure activated, Illuminated Fabric
Our next prototype introduction for the ‘Smart Textile Salon‘, a jointed European workshop organized by the European projects SysTex and Proetex comes from Riccardo Marchesi, Managing Director of InnTex, an Italian based textiles and textiles machinery company which is exploring the new area of Smart Textiles.
Riccardo will present the Pressure activated, Electroluminescent (EL) fabrics he [...]
