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When developing interactive textiles the size of technology is often a issue, bulky components cause for prototype-like looks and are not appealing. This project showcases ordinary LEDs integrated using a classical beading approach, making the technology part of the aesthetics of the textile.
Technology and textiles
The challenge of technology in combination with textiles is often how to integrate harder components with soft and flexible textiles. Beading is used to embellished textiles since the origin of textiles and also have a hard/non-flexible nature. In this piece it is showcased how we can use technology without necessarily making it invisible but making it part of the overall aesthetics.
Digital and traditional fabrication methods
In this new era, technology does not only enhance our products, production processes are also also undergoing transformations. Digital fabrication methods used in this piece are technologies such as laser cutting, digital drawing and parametric design, still including traditional approaches such as embroidery beading. We aim to showcase that these are not mutually exclusive, instead we combine the strengths of both fabrication methods to come to new insights and designs.
