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...

Due to Taiwan join WTO and quotas cancellation, textile goods faced global competition. With the short life cycle of the textile market and demand uncertainty in market, it leads to increasing pressure on the textile industry. Brand vendors start to search partners and hope to solve these problems through information sharing and collaboration. After sixty-year’s development, textile industry in...

This paper presents an interdisciplinary hybrid design that explores boundaries between mathematics, art, fashion and textile design using modular systems of materials based on geometric shapes. The intention behind this work is to encourage user participation in the design process through interactive and playful experiences using modular designs.

The designs that have been stored in early days are often used as a reference when textile designs are created. T o effectively use these resources, a wellequipped design database must be constructed and a useful searching method must be studied. As for a design searching method, searching methods that deal with human subjective information are requested. A technique for these searching methods...

This project expands future applied-design capabilities for textiles as a function of inkjet deposition technology. The project investigates 3D inkjet rapid-production tools’ potential, focusing on creative gaps in the developing technology in its application to the textile design process. As such, the research investigates future design possibilities for inkjet printing technology in the creat...

The integration of wires and electronics into textiles (e-textiles) has many potential applications for wearable and pervasive computing. Textiles are an integral part of everyday life, from clothing we wear to the carpet we walk upon. Being able to combine electronics with textiles would enable pervasive computing to blend into the background so that the user can go about a normal routine. One...

Textile plot is a parallel coordinate plot on which the whole location and scales of the axes are simultaneously chosen so that all connecting lines, each of which signifies an observation, are aligned as horizontally as possible. Textile plot can visualise not only numerical data but also ordered or unordered categorical data or the mix of those. Textile plot makes easier for user to understan...