fashion-tech

Electronic Embroidery/Sewing Kit

After I wrote the Electronic Embroidery article for CRAFT, Vol. 9, I had readers emailing me asking where they could get their hands on small quantities of the supplies needed to embellish their wearables and wall hangings with light. The Sparkfun E-sewing kit is great if you want a whole spool of conductive thread, but […]

Flashback: The Electric Tank Top

I just revisited an old friend: CRAFT Volume 01! I had almost forgotten what tasty morsels of crafting our premiere issue offered back in October of 2006. I’ve always loved cutting-edge crafter Leah Buechley‘s “Electric Tank Top” project. As Leah had written in the intro, “Although challenging, everyone should play with this stuff! It’s great […]

Complex Computer Generated Crochet

Georgia Tech grad student Matt Gilbert has been making some awesome crochet from a pattern generator he made, finding inspiration in acoustics. He and I share a strong opinion that computing and iterative crafting (crochet, knitting, weaving, etc.) have much in common. He writes: While the Jacquard Loom allowed for the beautiful and elaborate patterns […]

Shocking Chastity Belt

Artist Rachelle Beaudoin created this art performance chastity belt that shocks people when they touch it (but doesn’t shock her while wearing it). She used an off-the-shelf “shock your friends” gag toy circuits and extended the pertinent electrical leads using embroidered conductive thread on a vintage girdle. It was inspired by the film “That Obscure […]