Being Smart about Textiles – Part II

by Mallory Budy | July 27th, 2015

Last week, we published the first of a three-part series on the NeoCon 2015 “Smart Textiles for Modern Environments” seminar led by Deb Barrett, a leading window fashion design expert, trend strategist, and principal of Window Dressings. Part I focused on the basics of fabric and fabric selection. For Part II, we present a comprehensive guide to the newest cutting edge technologies being applied to create “smart” textiles, as well as examples of these new “smart” textiles. Because the “smart” textile arena was a brand new concept at one point, new methods to classify those textiles also had to be developed. Designers and textile producers can now classify “smart” textiles in two ways. The first method breaks smart textiles into passive, active and ultra categories. >Passive smart textiles: can sense something about the surrounding environment and have some sort of sensor incorporated into them. >Active smart textiles: can both sense …