Explore: Electronic Textiles

Electronic textiles or e-textiles are fabrics that enable electronic components such as batteries, lights, sensors, and microcontrollers to be embedded

environment. These textiles aim to reduce the environmental footprint of conventional e-textiles, which contribute to growing electronic and textile waste due

Ancient textiles, modern science II. In Siennicka, M., In Rahmstorf, L., & In Ulanowska, A. (2018). First textiles: The beginnings of textile manufacture

United States Artists foundation describes her as "A pioneer of electronic textiles, interactive fashions, wearable computing, and interface design"

publisher (link) Cork, C.R. (2015). "Conductive fibres for electronic textiles". Electronic Textiles: 3–20. doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-100201-8.00002-3. ISBN 9780081002018

Eisenberg, M., & Kafai, Y. B. (Eds.) (2013). Textile messages: Dispatches from the world of electronic textiles and education. New York: Peter Lang Publishers

fashion designer recognized in the 1960s for pioneering electronic textiles which incorporated electronic components into wearable clothing. She created clothing

rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. However, most of the

covered with cotton, glass or other materials to make into smart textiles or electronic textiles. There are often subtle variations in package details from

materials. There is also an interest in semiconducting textiles, made by impregnating normal textiles with carbon- or metal-based powders. Conductive fibers