Textiles formed a major part of any ancient Mesoamerican economy. Based on ethnohistory and iconography, the Maya were great producers of cloth for both internal and external use. However, the archaeological identification of textile production is difficult in any tropical area because of issues of preservation. This paper examines the evidence for the production and distribution of cloth that ...

Smart, electronic textiles are often exposed to tensile stress which can lead to fracture of the interwoven conducting yarns. In this study, a model is proposed to relate the extensibility of the conducting yarns to the weaving pattern of the textile – in particular to the thickness and pitch of the textile yarns. The model is validated by simultaneous mechanical and electrical tests on bare ya...

This paper a design-lead investigation into the making of textiles membranes for a behaving architecture. Presenting two probes, the installation of Vivisection and the architectural models of Strange Metabolisms, the paper explores how textiles as a technology of assemblage can bring together multiple and varied fibretypes allowing for the bespoke specking of an architectural surface. Employin...

Two textile research projects (one completed and one ongoing) are described, where physical inspirational tools are developed and tested with the aim of stimulating textile creativity and invention, i.e. the use of textile materials in new kinds of products, thus bringing textiles into new contexts. The first research project (completed) concerns how textile designers use new responsive materia...

This research analyses how the interaction between strategy capabilities, strategy types, strategy formulation quality and strategy implementation capability affects organizational performance in the Brazilian textiles companies. A conceptual framework was proposed and tested, with data from 211 firms. It was found a support for links between organizational capabilities and strategies types. It...

This thesis examines different classes of dyes, the processes they require, their use on different textiles, and their potential effects on the environment. Additionally, experiments with natural dyes were conducted and documented. Natural berries, roots, and other dyestuffs were collected and used to dye both natural and synthetic textiles. Through research and experimentation, the different t...

Designing the detailed architecture of a style or of an architectural family is a difficult task. However, it offers great benefits for the product architectures detailed design based on this style or family. The present work proposes a meta-model for the development of applications with layered architectural style and distributed with the middleware CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architec...