Something New, Something Old: Combining Conductive Fibers and Classical Tatting Techniques for Lace Structured Circuits
This project applies lacemaking to circuit design as an applications-based focus at the intersection of traditional craft and emerging e- textile materials. Tatting is a particularly durable method of creating lace by the use of sequential half-hitch knots and loops. This type of lace is fairly...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2023
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151821 https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4204-5009 |
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| author | Ahteck, Amanda Shayna |
| author2 | Boriskina, Svetlana |
| author_facet | Boriskina, Svetlana Ahteck, Amanda Shayna |
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| description | This project applies lacemaking to circuit design as an applications-based focus at the intersection of traditional craft and emerging e- textile materials.
Tatting is a particularly durable method of creating lace by the use of sequential half-hitch knots and loops. This type of lace is fairly stiff, consisting of self-knotting rings and chains that form a design. There are similarities in structure of a knot around a core thread to insulation around a wire. With the use of cotton thread knots around a core conductive thread, the structure of the lace becomes a wire. Similar knotting can be employed to sheath existing wires and fibers.
The combination of tatting technique with conductive thread and advanced fibers extends existing exploratory work to unify electronic components for complete lace fabric circuits. The organic structure made of free-standing lace serves as an integrated textile alternative to circuit boards and existing sewn or woven e-textile fabric. The unique lace form factor reveals potential for aesthetically appealing integration with or appending existing garments to add interaction and functionality while also protecting components from strain. Similarly, the lace made with conductive thread on its own can be used as an e-textile with sensing and output functions. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1518212023-08-24T03:29:15Z Something New, Something Old: Combining Conductive Fibers and Classical Tatting Techniques for Lace Structured Circuits Ahteck, Amanda Shayna Boriskina, Svetlana Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering This project applies lacemaking to circuit design as an applications-based focus at the intersection of traditional craft and emerging e- textile materials. Tatting is a particularly durable method of creating lace by the use of sequential half-hitch knots and loops. This type of lace is fairly stiff, consisting of self-knotting rings and chains that form a design. There are similarities in structure of a knot around a core thread to insulation around a wire. With the use of cotton thread knots around a core conductive thread, the structure of the lace becomes a wire. Similar knotting can be employed to sheath existing wires and fibers. The combination of tatting technique with conductive thread and advanced fibers extends existing exploratory work to unify electronic components for complete lace fabric circuits. The organic structure made of free-standing lace serves as an integrated textile alternative to circuit boards and existing sewn or woven e-textile fabric. The unique lace form factor reveals potential for aesthetically appealing integration with or appending existing garments to add interaction and functionality while also protecting components from strain. Similarly, the lace made with conductive thread on its own can be used as an e-textile with sensing and output functions. S.B. 2023-08-23T16:11:16Z 2023-08-23T16:11:16Z 2023-06 2023-07-18T16:17:16.724Z Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151821 https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4204-5009 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Copyright retained by author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Ahteck, Amanda Shayna Something New, Something Old: Combining Conductive Fibers and Classical Tatting Techniques for Lace Structured Circuits |
| title | Something New, Something Old: Combining Conductive Fibers and Classical Tatting Techniques for Lace Structured Circuits |
| title_full | Something New, Something Old: Combining Conductive Fibers and Classical Tatting Techniques for Lace Structured Circuits |
| title_fullStr | Something New, Something Old: Combining Conductive Fibers and Classical Tatting Techniques for Lace Structured Circuits |
| title_full_unstemmed | Something New, Something Old: Combining Conductive Fibers and Classical Tatting Techniques for Lace Structured Circuits |
| title_short | Something New, Something Old: Combining Conductive Fibers and Classical Tatting Techniques for Lace Structured Circuits |
| title_sort | something new something old combining conductive fibers and classical tatting techniques for lace structured circuits |
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