UNLABELLED BACKGROUND For millennia, iron-tannate dyes have been used to colour ceremonial and domestic objects shades of black, grey, or brown. Surviving iron-tannate dyed objects are part of our cultural heritage but their existence is threatened by the dye itself which can accelerate oxidation and acid hydrolysis of the substrate. This causes many iron-tannate dyed textiles to discolour a...

The future trend in wearable computing is to integrate electronics directly into textiles. Our approach is to use conductive textiles for signal transmission. We investigated the electrical performance of textile transmission lines. We present methods for measuring as well as for modeling the high frequency properties of textiles. With the results it is possible to predict the electrical proper...

Smart technical textiles are by definition textiles that can interact with their environment. They can sense and react to environmental conditions and external stimuli from mechanical, thermal, chemical or other sources. Such textiles are multifunctional or even “intelligent” which is fulfilled by a number of sensors incorporated in the textiles. The embedded sensors are sensitive to various pa...

The textile industry is one of the most important consumer goods industries worldwide. Its mostly small and medium-sized enterprises produce textiles for various uses such as clothing, home textiles (such as bed and table linen, kitchen towels and cleaning rags), household textiles (such as curtains, furniture fabrics, textile floor coverings) and technical textiles (such as protective clothing...

of the many diverse arts that flourished during the third millennium bc, textiles played an especiallysignificant role in society. archaeological textiles offer an important source of material cultural testimony fordaily life in ancient times- relating simultaneously to agriculture, pastoralism, trade, migration, ritual, and soforth as well as to craft technologies. the study of the techniques ...

This paper details a pilot study done to assess the effectiveness of a tactile rendering strategy. The rendering strategy addresses the tactile receptors in the skin via stimuli consisting of superimposed sine waves. To assess the validity of this strategy, subjects were presented with sets of four virtual textiles and asked to rate them in terms of similarity to a real textile. The results sho...

24 Nanoscale ceramic surface modification of textiles by atomic layer deposition R ecent opportunities to merge traditional inorganic materials processing with organic fibrous textiles are creating new possibilities in electrical, optical and mechanical applications for textiles. Textiles are made of low-cost natural or synthetic fibers and have unique flexibility, strength and durability with ...

Christian–Doppler–Laboratory for Chemistry of Cellulosic Fibres & Textiles, Leopold–Franzens University Innsbruck; Present Address: Lenzing AG, Business Development & Innovation Textiles, Fiber Science Group, A–4860 Lenzing; Tel. +43 7672 701 2757; Fax. +43 7672 918 2757; E–Mail: [email protected] Atomic Institute of Austrian Universities, Vienna University of Technology Lenzing AG, Business ...

This paper makes a case for a communication architecture for electronic textiles (e-textiles). The properties and requirements of e-textile garments are described and analyzed. Based on these properties, the authors make a case for employing wired, digital communication as the primary ongarment communication network. The implications of this design choice for the hardware architecture for e-tex...