Barbara Layne’s interactive textiles address the social dynamics of fabric and human interaction #WearableWednesday
Canadian artist Barbara Layne works with textiles and LEDs to create pieces that speak to the dynamics of human interaction. Will, one of our staff members in the production department, recently got a chance to check out her work at the Museo Textil de Oaxaca and was really impressed by it. The above piece is called Jacket Antics:
These light-emitting jackets were originally designed for the exhibition Integration, in Sydney, Australia in Spring 2007. Intimate and interactive, they rely on the act of holding hands to present a range of dynamically encoded surfaces through their scrolling LED arrays. A variety of texts and designs related to time, place, communication and technological innovation were programmed into the LED displays of the garments.
In the first instance, the texts refer to technical innovations between Canada and Australia. When the wearers hold hands) the text message continuously scrolls from the back of one to the other…
When separated, the garents display a variety of texts and patterns independent of the other. The coatdress lists inventions by Canadians, alternating with stylized abstractions Of Canadiana. Similarly, the man’s jacket recounts Australian innovations and images from New South Wales. The content can be reconfigured, based on location or related to individual wearers.
The fabric is made of black linen yarns, woven in a traditional 2/2 twill pattern to give the fabrics a soft drape. Woven on a hand loom, the weave structure supports embedded Light Emitting Diodes and other electronic components. Conductive silver threads are woven alongside the linen yarns to create a flexible circuit. The fabrics are then cut and sewn to create the garments.
Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!
Adafruit publishes a wide range of writing and video content, including interviews and reporting on the maker market and the wider technology world. Our standards page is intended as a guide to best practices that Adafruit uses, as well as an outline of the ethical standards Adafruit aspires to. While Adafruit is not an independent journalistic institution, Adafruit strives to be a fair, informative, and positive voice within the community – check it out here: adafruit.com/editorialstandards
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
Have an amazing project to share? The Electronics Show and Tell is every Wednesday at 7pm ET! To join, head over to YouTube and check out the show’s live chat – we’ll post the link there.
Python for Microcontrollers — Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: MicroPython Pico W Bluetooth, CircuitPython 8.0.4 and much more! #CircuitPython #Python #micropython @ThePSF @Raspberry_Pi
Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!